Sustainability and Shifting Paradigms in Tourism

Abstract

Something important changed the world 50 years ago. It was in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s when the realization of fast approaching limits to growth came down like a hammer, striking a strong blow on business-as-usual world political and socio-economic paradigms. Of course, classical economists like Malthus had already sounded a warning 150 years before. Then, scientific and technological advances postponed the inevitable. Finally, the Club of Rome thinkers and two oil crises dispelled the illusion of limitless growth in a small planet, with the controversy being retaken afresh in the 21st century.

Keywords

• Sustainability
• Paradigm
• Theory