Ecotourism and the Myth of Indigenous Stewardship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8097543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David A Fennell (0000-0002-7256-1152, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129-149 |
| Publication date | 2008-02-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Sustainable Tourism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-9582 • E-ISSN: 1747-7646 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2167/jost736.0 |
| OpenAlex | W2049889942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 55 |
This paper questions the legitimacy of ecological stewardship as an innate characteristic of traditional societies, a widely held belief in much academic work on ecotourism and manifest in ecotourism operations. Evidence from biologists, archaeologists and anthropologists is used to show that traditional societies found it difficult to manage resources in a sustainable way, with over-utilisation as the norm. Armed with this knowledge, the paper argues that there may be serious philosophical and operational problems inherent in packaging aboriginal ecotourism as having a superior environmental ethic, and a need for further research and changed management practices
Business · Economics · Ecotourism · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Environmental stewardship · Geography · Indigenous · Legitimacy · Mythology · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Stewardship (theology · Tourism · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Ecology · History · Law
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The Khwe of Namibia. Foragers between Game, Tourism, and Politics
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Transforming Tourists and "Culturalising Commerce"
Regaining Paradise Lost
Ecotourism research progress
Evolving perspectives on tourism's interaction with nature during the last 40 years
Representations and uses of indigenous areas in tourism experiences in the Russian Arctic
Ecotourism and the development of indigenous communities
A review of research into animal ethics in tourism
Cultural sustainability – a framework for Aboriginal tourism in British Columbia
Authenticity as a compromise
The life cycle of authenticity
Beyond self-Orientalism
Ecosystem stewardship
Community participation in tourism development as a tool to foster sustainable land and resource use practices in a national park milieu
Authenticity and the contradictions of the “ecotourism script”
Academic dissent in a post Covid-19 world
The Environment-Tourism Nexus
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Conservation, Traditional Knowledge, and Indigenous Peoples
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The Emergence of New Commons
The Myth of the Noble Savage
Hosts and Guests
Indigenous Ecotourism
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Indigenous Peoples and Conservation
Prehistoric Extinctions of Pacific Island Birds
Social Capital in Biodiversity Conservation and Management
Use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Marine Conservation
The Apportionment of Human Diversity
Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management
Hosts and Guests
Sacred Ecology
Testing the ?ecologically noble savage? hypothesis
A comparison of the efficiencies of the shotgun and the bow in neotropical forest hunting
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Indigenous people and co-management
Introduction and overview
Community Participation in Ecotourism Benefits
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Developing aboriginal tourism — opportunities and threats
Indigenous Peoples and Ecotourism
Indigenous tourism development in the arctic
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Indigenous Ecotourism in Central British Columbia
Why do good hunters have higher reproductive success
Behavioral ecology of conservation in traditional societies
Eskimo Essays
Sociobiology
Pleistocene Extinctions
The Question of the Commons
On Why Male Foragers Hunt and Share Food
The Emergence of Waterfowl Conservation Among Yup'ik Hunters in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska
Balancing Conservation with Development in Small-Scale Fisheries
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,94 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |