Jafari And Macbeth's Platforms Flashcards
The 6 platforms of tourism scholarship
The advocacy platform - the good, about economic prospects of tourism, key interest groups promoted the economic value of tourism activity, from jobs to foreign exchange, championed the role of tourism across other aspects of society, from cultural revival to preserving the environment
The cautionary platform - the bad, researchers and interest groups with a concern for culture and nature, serious challenge to the ‘alls good with tourism’ view of advocacy platform, this alerting platform pointed to economic disbenefits (low paid and seasonal jobs, environmental destruction and cultural commodification)
The adaptancy platform - the how, reflects attempt to look at alternative forms of tourism, mitigate negative impacts and enhance positive, be responsive to host communities and their needs but still provide more products to satisfy tourists
The knowledge based platform - the why, reflects a maturing of research and scholarship, a recognition of the complexity and reality of tourism industry, a systems perspective, develop comprehensive knowledge of tourism
A sustainable platform - to survive, sustainable (slogan of the decade), changed the political discourse of development, fundamentally a normative position, emergent paradigm
Value-full platform - the norms, everything we do is informed by our beliefs, based on objectivity, need to interrogate ethics and norms of our decisions, sets agenda for articulating value positions
