This is quite fitting for tourism scholars, who have traditionally grappled with issues
of indivisibility of tourism impacts, problems with discerning human-caused
impacts from natural impacts, and issues of comparisons at multiple and interlocking
scales. Also, integration of the three broad approaches – spatial, behavioural,
reflexive – remains a challenge, although more recently there has been some improvement.
For example, using Goa, India as a case study, Saldanha (2002) discussed
tourism as a crucial commodifying and politicizing force in global capitalism,
and provided a critique of Goan identity from spatial, behavioural and reflexive
perspectives.