Can Tourism be an antidote to narcissism and homogenization?
Can Tourism help revive our concern for the public realm?
Can Tourism help us recover or create a vital sense of place in our communities?
Can Tourism help transform us from consumers into stewards?
These are four insightful questions posed by Dr. Scott Russell Sanders, an Indiana University English professor at a conference nearly three years ago. And the answer to each question is a resounding “yes.”
But rarely have so few words had such a sustained impact on how and what I think. Partly, because he articulated so eloquently in that speech what some of us have been thinking for many years.
Tourism development must be more than just a form of economic development or putting “heads in beds” or “bottoms in seats.”
Can Tourism help revive our concern for the public realm?
Can Tourism help us recover or create a vital sense of place in our communities?
Can Tourism help transform us from consumers into stewards?
These are four insightful questions posed by Dr. Scott Russell Sanders, an Indiana University English professor at a conference nearly three years ago. And the answer to each question is a resounding “yes.”
But rarely have so few words had such a sustained impact on how and what I think. Partly, because he articulated so eloquently in that speech what some of us have been thinking for many years.
Tourism development must be more than just a form of economic development or putting “heads in beds” or “bottoms in seats.”
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