This paper explores the use and abuse of sustainability principles in tourism development. Problems are identified which can limit the use to tourism as an element in a genuine SD strategy.

International tourism is often perceived by LDC government planners as an engine of economic growth, but the focus is commonly mass tourism whilst ignoring backpackers. The case study of Lombok, Indonesia, indicates that the encouragement of backpacker tourism may alleviate some of the excesses...

Indonesian tourism policy has generally been top-down and biased towards attracting international mass tourism and encouraging large, capital intensive projects. However, this paper examines locally owned, bottom-up tourism that developed to service backpackers (budget tourists). Recent...

This paper explores the nature of the relationship between international tourism and the environment in a naturally bounded area, a small tropical island. Since the 1980s international tourism in Gili Trawangan has increasingly replaced agriculture and fishing as the dominant economic activity....

This peper examines monthly arriavls data for hotels in Porthsmouth for the period January 1987 to December 1994. The objective is to establish whether there has bee any change in seasonal pattern over time and investigate the extent to which various policy initiatives and special events have...