Zhenhua Liu (2003) Sustainable Tourism Development: A Critique, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 11:6, 459-475
This paper presents a critique of the weaknesses evident in past literature on sustainable tourism. The paper explores six crucial issues; forms of sustainable development, the role of tourism demand, the imperative of intra-generational equity, the measurement of sustainability, the role of tourism in promoting socio-cultural progress and the nature of tourism resources. The paper concludes by stating that a systems perspective and application of an interdisciplinary approach are necessary in order to transform research on sustainable tourism to a more scientific level. This source is very relevant and crucial to the topic because it presents a critique on previous literature which sets ...