Tourism, Value Appropriation, and Ecological Degradation

This article highlights the main characteristics of rapid development tourism during recent decades, as well limitations existing literature concerning this development. An alternative (Marxist) theoretical framework is then developed for explication commodified tourism, role ecological and cultural (value) appropriation in determination capitalist profitability, its developmental implications. As argued, value resource exploitation/appropriation dialectic have adverse socioeconomic implications, while leading to growth against other sectors. On hand, homogenization degradation brought about especially by mass imply a self-limiting itself. Concluding that current mode ecologically socially unsustainable, we end with broad outline different perspective decommodified within post-capitalist