Tourism and the green economy: inspiring or averting change?
This paper investigates how tourism stakeholders conceptualise tourism in a green economy and how they foresee the transition to progress. With the meaning of a green economy remaining contested, the political agenda that the concept entails in a particular context can be far from clear. The paper p...
| Published in: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 36; no. 12; pp. 2225 - 2244 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2015
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