The Compatible Roles of Mass and Alternative Tourism

1. Introduction

One of the major factors of alternative tourism analysis is the overwhelming tendency for its supporters to equilibrium with the entire positive and negative while at the same time castigating mass tourism. This analysis is use to differentiate both mass tourism and alternative tourism. Alternative tourism grew out of a reaction to the abrupt numbers and accompanying damage of mass tourism. It is assigned to source such feature as limited-scale, low-impact, community-based and raised-awareness or education and is frequently presented as the exact opposite of mass tourism. Rather than being uncritically damning of mass tourism, this recognizes that both alternative and mass tourism have their roles to play in the social and environmental stabilizing of tourism. For instance, a good deal of social tourism would be more compatible with mass tourism as the equity requirements of this sector call for accommodating and serving large volumes of people. Additionally, in some instances mass tourism can be more appropriate and sustainable than alternative tourism as it occurs in already developed areas with existing infrastructure to cater for tourists whereas eco-tourists are attracted to fragile, pristine environments where even their smaller numbers may have significant negative environmental impacts.

2. Sustainable Tourism

The application of sustainability principles to tourism is the most important issue in current tourism discourse. Its profile is confirmed by any brief survey of tourism textbooks, tourism brochures, institutional websites of organizations such as the UNWTO, annual reports of global tourism players such as British Airways, as well as in the discourse of ordinary travellers who are increasingly aware ...

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...tourism is a reaction to the impacts spawned by unplanned developments, which is a form of adaptations to deal with tourism development's problems. Tourism can get from an alternative form into mass tourism, and many times is due to the pressure, but it cannot be undo from a mass tourism to an alternative form of tourism. The demand for alternative forms of tourism is on the increase and this is due to the root causes when the consequences of market demand are considered. With increasing demand for alternative forms of tourism, tourism developments will be committed in providing alternative travel experiences. As more and more person starting to choose alterative tourism, there is a slight chance that the goals in obtaining sustainable tourism is not an impossible task anymore. So for the time being now the only way is to maintain sustainable development in tourism.