Autori
Maretti, Mara
Salvatore, Rita

Titolo
The Link between Sustainable Tourism and Local Social Development. A Sociological Reassessment
Periodico
Sociologica
Anno: 2012 - Volume: 16 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 0

While considering the need to reassess the concept of sustainability under a sociologicalperspective, this article represents an attempt to reflect on the theoretical frameworklinking local social development to sustainable tourism. These are considered as two key categorieswith which to rethink the concept of sustainability in its concrete applications. Withinthis frame, it is useful to consider sustainability under five different principles of equity (inter-generational, intra-generational, geographical, procedural and inter-species equity). In orderto better adapt this model to the field of tourism a sixth principle based on cultural equityhas been added. This perspective allows us to consider sustainable tourism in its proximal,relational and site-situated nature, an approach particularly suitable for both translatinginto real practice the paradigm of sustainability and for reducing its ambiguity with respectto the idea of development. At the same time, it focuses on the sociological aspects of the debate,eventually giving a new life to a discourse often restricted to economic and environmentalaspects.



SICI: 1971-8853(2012)16:2<0:TLBSTA>2.0.ZU;2-7
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