The purpose of this book has been twofold. Firstly, it set out to challenge what was referred to in the introduction as the ‘status quo’ of sustainable tourism development. In other words, it set out to argue that, despite maintaining its position in both academic and tourism policy circles as the dominant tourism development paradigm, sustainable tourism development has failed to deliver. Not only is there little, if any, evidence of ‘true’ sustainable tourism development in practice – there are, of course, numerous examples of smallscale, local projects that conform to the principles of sustainability yet these are, to paraphrase a well-used argument, micro responses to macro issues – but also the significant attention paid to the concept in the academic literature has resulted in neither a consensus with regards to definitions and theoretical underpinnings, nor a translation of its principles into a viable set of practices for developing tourism ‘on the ground’. In short, it is time to recognize that the concept of sustainable tourism development, both as a subject of academic debate and as an approach to tourism development, has reached an impasse; it is time to move on and consider tourism development ‘beyond sustainability’. Indeed, there is some evidence that this is beginning to occur (Lim and Cooper, 2009).