Tourism development is well known for producing unequal encounters between
the destination population and the visiting tourists. Sustainable development accordingly
calls for cultural changes that are acceptable for the destination community as it
determines what is to be sustained for whom and how by the people whose habitat is, or
may become, the object of tourism. While there are multiple stakeholders involved in
tourism, the local community is de facto in a better position than most to delineate what
is culturally acceptable