Tourism and Sustainable Development Practice Flashcards

This set of vocabulary flashcards covers key concepts from lecture notes on tourism development strategies, including pro-poor and inclusive tourism, conservation politics, mega-events, and political economy perspectives.

Pro-poor tourism

Tourism that generates net benefits for the poor; it works within market systems and seeks interventions to increase benefits to poor communities.

Inclusive tourism

A tourism approach emphasizing participation, representation, and empowerment, particularly addressing race, class, and gender inequalities.

$1990s$ "poverty consensus"

A global development period where poverty alleviation emerged as a major goal, leading to the promotion of tourism as a development strategy.

White Paper on the Development and Promotion of Tourism ($1996$)

A post-apartheid South African policy that positioned tourism as a tool for economic growth and local economic development.

Capability approach

Amartya Sen's framework measuring development through people's ability to achieve valued "functionings" such as education, health, dignity, and participation.

Leakages

The loss of tourism revenue from developing countries through foreign-owned airlines, hotel chains, and tour operators.

Ecotourism

Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people.

Political ecology

An analytical approach examining how environmental management and nature-society relationships are shaped by unequal power relations.

Environmental fix for capitalism

Duffy's concept that tourism opens new frontiers in nature for capitalist accumulation and commodifies wildlife and landscapes.

Fortress conservation

A conservation model involving fenced protected areas that exclude local communities from land and resources.

Fossilised conservation

The preservation of nature as untouched and static, often ignoring historical relationships between people and environments.

Distributive justice

A form of social justice concerned with the fair distribution of tourism and conservation costs and benefits.

Procedural justice

A form of social justice focusing on the participation and representation of people in decision-making processes.

Misframing

A concept from Nancy Fraser where global priorities (like UNESCO status) override local social and economic needs.

Mega-events

Large-scale international events, such as the FIFA World Cup or Olympics, used to attract investment and global visibility.

Sport-media-tourism complex

The intersection of sports events and media exposure used by governments to improve national image and attract tourism.

"White elephant" infrastructure

Expensive infrastructure built for mega-events that becomes underutilised and costly to maintain after the event.

Political economy

A critical approach analyzing production, exchange, and distribution within capitalism, and how power relations condition development.

Neoliberalism

An economic model promoting privatisation, deregulation, and market integration, often weakening state control over tourism.

Worldmaking

Hollinshead's concept that tourism shapes how societies are imagined and represented, potentially creating counter-narratives.

Tourism violence

Physical or structural impacts including land dispossession, rising living costs, and exclusion caused by tourism development.

Sustainable tourism

Tourism intended to balance environmental protection, economic development, and socio-cultural integrity over the long term.

iSimangaliso Wetland Park

A South African protected area used as a case study for social justice challenges, including community exclusion and resource restrictions.

$2010$ FIFA World Cup

The first World Cup hosted on the African continent, which increased tourist arrivals to South Africa by over $300\,000$ people.