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To What Extent Can a Balance Between Sustainability and Economic Growth Be Achieved in the Tourism Industry

Author(s) Riva Mehta
Country India
Abstract This paper reviews international tourism research concerning the ongoing tension between the continuing rhetoric of sustainable tourism and the reality of achieving sustainability through tourism. A range of interrelated sociopolitical, institutional and behavioural obstructions to implementing sustainability was identified. We discussed four central themes from our research: overtourism, policy inertia, fractured governance and techno-optimism. While it is clear tourism is locked into a growth paradigm that often greets ecological and social sustainability as a ‘nice to have’ rather than a fundamental prerequisite of tourism, our research showed that there are pathways towards more just and resilient, socially and ecologically sustainable futures. The case studies undertaken in the Philippines, Vietnam and Tanna Island, Vanuatu, demonstrated how participatory planning, inclusive governance, and culturally embedded work can offer meaningful alternatives to the ongoing challenges of sustainability in tourism. The paper provided a critical assessment of the existing frameworks and emergent models and ultimately asserted that tourism development cannot be strengthened through a focus on the single bottom line of profit. Our study urged a radical rethink of how tourism development should occur, emphasising that sustainability should be regarded far beyond an operational pursuit but rather as a political and ethical philosophy.
Keywords Sustainable Tourism, Overtourism, Governance, Policy implementation, Participatory planning, Asia-Pacific
Field Sociology > Economics
Published In Volume 7, Issue 3, May-June 2025
Published On 2025-06-03
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i03.45737
Short DOI https://doi.org/g9m28j
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