In the UK, the Department for International Development (DfID) also sponsors a scheme to promote small-scale, sustainable tourism in the Third World.
The literature sees tourism as a means of addressing the ‘pro-poor’ agenda to
establish basic needs for the world’s poorest people. One of the justifications
given for utilising tourism in this way is that: ‘Tourism products can be built on
natural resources and culture, which are often the only significant assets the poor
have’ (DfID, 1999: 2). This lack of resources defines their underdeveloped status.
The pro-poor tourism approach works around this to engender a limited development in rural areas.
One department workshop paper begins with a quote from the World Wide
Fund for Nature suggesting that nature constrains the extent to which poverty
can be tackled: ‘Sustainable Tourism is tourism and associated infrastructures
that, both now and in the future: operate within natural capacities for the regeneration and future productivity of natural resources’ (DfID/DETR, 1998) (my
italics). Yet in what sense are there natural limits in the fashion implied? The
limits to development in the Third World are better regarded as social in nature
rather than rooted in natural processes. They are a product of unequal economic
and political relationships, and more immediately, the burden of debt and the
dearth of inward investment and of aid itself. Few in the more developed countries live within limits defined by their specific relationship to their immediate
environment in the way the Department for International Development’s advisers seem to be advocating here in the name of sustainability.
In the UK, the Department for International Development (DfID) also sponsors a scheme to promote small-scale, sustainable tourism in the Third World.
The literature sees tourism as a means of addressing the ‘pro-poor’ agenda to
establish basic needs for the world’s poorest people. One of the justifications
given for utilising tourism in this way is that: ‘Tourism products can be built on
natural resources and culture, which are often the only significant assets the poor
have’ (DfID, 1999: 2). This lack of resources defines their underdeveloped status.
The pro-poor tourism approach works around this to engender a limited development in rural areas.
One department workshop paper begins with a quote from the World Wide
Fund for Nature suggesting that nature constrains the extent to which poverty
can be tackled: ‘Sustainable Tourism is tourism and associated infrastructures
that, both now and in the future: operate within natural capacities for the regeneration and future productivity of natural resources’ (DfID/DETR, 1998) (my
italics). Yet in what sense are there natural limits in the fashion implied? The
limits to development in the Third World are better regarded as social in nature
rather than rooted in natural processes. They are a product of unequal economic
and political relationships, and more immediately, the burden of debt and the
dearth of inward investment and of aid itself. Few in the more developed countries live within limits defined by their specific relationship to their immediate
environment in the way the Department for International Development’s advisers seem to be advocating here in the name of sustainability.
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