Sustaining Tourism, Sustaining Capitalism? The Tourism Industry's Role in Global Capitalist Expansion

By R. Fletcher. 2011

229 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. R. Fletcher
2. Bram Büscher
3. F. De Man
4. R. Duffy
5. R. Bianchi
6. Szilvia Gyimóthy
7. Dimitrios Ioannides
8. Freya Higgins-Desbiolles

In Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management

1. R. Duffy
2. R. Bianchi
3. F. De Man
4. Szilvia Gyimóthy
5. Bram Büscher
6. Dimitrios Ioannides
7. R. Fletcher

Citations in the corpus

• Nature-based tourism and neoliberalism: concealing contradictions (2015, background): “Since these are transient experiences, they can only be recaptured by being purchased anew (Fletcher, 2014, p. 185; Fletcher & Neves, 2012; also see Straughan, 2012 on the importance of embodied engagement in her study of intertwining of touch, water and scuba-diving).”
• Degrowing tourism: rethinking tourism (2019, background): “& Zaccai, 2010). Kallis (2011) asserts that degrowth “is a radical political project that offers a new”
• The COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity for escaping the unsustainable global tourism path (2020, background): “” On a global scale, interventions such as these aim at keeping a capitalist market logic alive (Fletcher, 2011) and yet, this logic thrives on unjustifiable value capture in situations where the externalities are absorbed by the environment, the precarious labor force, host communities, and mom-and”
• Destructive creation: capital accumulation and the structural violence of tourism (2017, background): “stress produced by this work and life as a basis of renewed accumulation (Fletcher & Neves, 2012). This dynamic, obviously, is not new. David Bunn (2003), when studying “tourism, water and wildlife photography in the early Kruger National Park”, argued that the symbolic importance of Kruger”
• Tourism, inclusive growth and decent work: a political economy critique (2020, background): “(see B€ uscher & Fletcher, 2017; Duffy, 2015; Fletcher, 2011), the analysis and critique of the com-”