intellectual instruments necessary for the formulation of a prudent policy approach to tourism, as both a branch of economic development and as a major cultural manifestation of the modern world, which will avoid the extremes.of a total condemnation of tourism as well as of its uncritical approbaTi7n.1110
Acknowledgements—An earlier version of this paper has been presented (in absencia) to the International Round Table on "The Social and Cultural Impact of Tourism," organized by the Unite de Recherche en Sociologic du Tourisme International, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, June 9-11, 1986, at Marly-le-Roi, France.