Tourism development and natural capital

The bulk of recent tourism-environment and sustainable tourism development literature can suggest the application of strong sustainability criteria. This is shown to be problematic since even such developmental practices may. generate various classes of spillover effects that can frustrate genuine attainment of strong sustainability in tourism concentration, dispersal, or small-scale operation. At a broader sectoral level, tourism-centric development policies are also reasoned to he of inherently limited value in achieving strong sustainability objectives. Accordingly, by consideration of these problems it is argued that policy should be directed to facilitating more coordinated strategic planning intervention, rather than reliance an market instruments and processes.