Ecotourism as a Western Construct

By E. Cater. 2006

215 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Community-based Tourism Enterprises Development in Kenya: An Exploration of Their Potential as Avenues of Poverty Reduction (2007, background): “Hence, the development of CBEs in Kenya is fundamentally based on their potential to enhance local community support for the conservation agenda, rather than as a stand-alone development strategy for local communities (Cater, 2006).”
Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? (2009, background): “Sustainable tourism development can, in particular, be viewed as a manifestation of western hegemony or, as Cater describes in a powerful critique of ecotourism, as a specific nature-based form of sustainable tourism, a western construct: ‘There is a lot to suggest that, because the origins of ecoto”
Nature-based tourism and neoliberalism: concealing contradictions (2015, background): “Cater (2006) for example, argues that ecotourism is a western construct, and is deeply implicated in the expansion of global capitalism.”