Human–environmental relations with tourism

Abstract While the social impacts of tourism in developing countries have been extensively researched, virtually nothing is known about the changes it initiates in human–environmental relations. In order to investigate this interaction, a survey was conducted in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Evidence suggests that tourism is fundamentally changing the relationships individuals have with society and nature in a way detrimental to the goals of sustainable development. Ultimately, the findings might explain the rapid growth in this industry as a self-reinforcing process. Sustainable tourism—or the notion that development can be managed in an environmentally neutral way—might thus be a contradiction in terms.

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