Human endeavours are indebted to become more sustainable and self-sustained. One popular activity or domain has huge potential for major progress in sustainability in the short term, namely tourism.
When receiving services, tourists interact directly with other humans who reside at their holiday destination, and tourists are typically receptive to their surroundings. This in itself is conducive to flexibility and convergence in the roles of tourism service-providers and recipients. Such a convergence of opportunities equates to individual temporal compensation and permeability within the distribution of roles.
Thus, via convergence, tourism could become more equitable. In global agriculture it is the other way round: via the preservation and enhancement of divergence, agricultural practices could be more appropriately arranged alongside natural habitats, to achieve greater spatial sustainability all round. This opinion piece presents a very intuitive suggestion to foster true sustainability in global tourism.
World-wide, employees experience increasing demands at work which is associated with high physical and mental stress levels. A common and popular option to alleviate stress is recreation in the form of tourism.
Tourism hence involves nowadays more often encounters and exchanges across cultural boundaries and across population groups with radical different financial performances Scavenius, Although offering pure nature is typically beneficial for generating revenue from tourism, the presence e. As a consequence, general wage levels tend to be low in untouched nature paradises due to lacking industrial or natural resource depleting economic development. However, to be sustainable, services provided to tourists by local residents need to generate fair wages which provide a decent living for local residents.
