ABSTRACT
The claims of certain forms of tourism to be more moral are not only rooted in the ideological developments referred to in previous chapters. They are also reflected in the conception of nature-based, culturally sensitive tourism as an exemplary development tool, especially in the Third World. Mass Tourism’s impact on development is deemed to be disappointing and highly problematic from a cultural and environmental perspective. It is considered that New Moral Tourism types, however, such as ecotourism and community tourism, are able to bring together the previously antagonistic goals of development and conservation.
