Screaming in Silence: Seeking Sustainable Tourism in Island Societies
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Despite the significance and growth of tourism in the Caribbean, ontologies and epistemologies of sustainable tourism in island societies remain fragmented, fragile, fleeting and fatalistic. In a review of, and reflecting on the classical canons of tourism, sustainable tourism, and islands, within contemporary Caribbean island societies, this paper contends that our current scientific modes, models and methods are unsuitable and unsustainable for understanding sustainable tourism in island societies, let alone, guiding scholars and policy makers in pursuit of sustainable tourism. This paper questions the scientific status quo, and calls for a new discourse on sustainable tourism from within island societies.
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