{"id":49529,"date":"2021-02-26T17:56:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=49529"},"modified":"2021-02-26T17:56:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T16:56:54","slug":"to-some-communities-undertourism-can-be-a-bigger-problem-than-overtourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2021\/02\/to-some-communities-undertourism-can-be-a-bigger-problem-than-overtourism\/","title":{"rendered":"To some communities undertourism can be a bigger problem than overtourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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E<\/span>thical tourism is strongly associated with \u2018community empowerment\u2019 and \u2018local participation\u2019. But how does this relate to the important debates raging about national democracy: populism, majoritarian democracy versus group rights, direct democracy versus representative democracy, the role of expertise, and so on?<\/p>\r\n

As a site-specific industry, tourism\u2019s environmental and cultural impact\u2009\u2014\u2009positive and negative\u2009\u2014\u2009is an important issue. When communities democratically choose to limit tourism, this should be respected. Some cities, historic towns, small islands, and villages have experienced what has been described as \u2018overtourism\u2019, and their elected representatives have sought to enact measures to mitigate congestion and other associated issues. Limits on, for example, AirBnB and similar space-sharing apps, in cities all over the world are often positive examples of democracy at\u00a0work.<\/p>\r\n

But democracy requires choice, which in turn requires alternative visions. A\u00a0presentism\u2009\u2014\u2009judging how things are now, without a future-oriented sense of how they could be\u2009\u2014\u2009often limits vision. While local communities are sometimes, often understandably, seen as victims of tourism development projects, they are far less often seen as victims of no development at all. In this respect, whilst many communities are concerned with \u2018overtourism\u2019,\u00a0undertourism can be a bigger problem for many others.<\/p>\r\n

A stark illustration is provided by\u00a0Worldwrite\u2019s\u00a0Thinking Big\u00a0video wherein a young Ghanaian man dreams of the jobs and opportunities that could arise from major economic development. He imagines a now deserted seafront transformed into the sort of mass tourism development often pejoratively associated with large Spanish resorts. When I showed this to an academic audience at an international conference on tourism some years ago, there was an audible gasp; who could possibly argue that such developments could be a good thing? Well, the young man in the video<\/a> did.<\/p>\r\n

This is an excerpt from an article by Jim Butcher, originally published on The \u201cGood Tourism\u201d Blog.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a result of overtourism, communities often choose to limit tourism at a destination. However, whilst many communities are concerned with \u2018overtourism\u2019, undertourism can be a bigger problem for many others. These communities dream of economic development, and with it jobs and opportunities. Either way, the host communities should be able to choose their vision of ideal tourism development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":49533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,16,961,535],"tags":[1835],"yoast_head":"\nTo some communities undertourism can be a bigger problem than overtourism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As a result of overtourism, communities often choose to limit tourism at a destination. However, whilst many communities are concerned with \u2018overtourism\u2019, undertourism can be a bigger problem for many others. 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