Dr Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher is a lecturer and writer who has written a number of books on the sociology and politics of tourism. Dr Butcher blogs at Politics of Tourism, tweets at @jimbutcher2, and is the founder of Tourism’s Horizon: Travel for the Millions.
Jim has also written for The “Good Tourism” Travel Blog.
Travel & tourism’s host communities need alternative visions for development and the power to choose between them, according to lecturer and writer Jim Butcher. It’s his second “Good Tourism” Insight. Ethical tourism is strongly associated with ‘community empowerment’ and ‘local participation’. But how does this relate to the important debates raging about national democracy: populism, […]
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Among tourism academics and thinkers today — the outspoken ones at least — Jim Butcher is one of the few who would challenge the notion that post-pandemic tourism must — for the sake of the planet — be much diminished from what it was. He does just that in this “Good Tourism” Insight. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, much has been said […]
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