Dr Peter Smith

Dr Peter Smith

Peter Smith

Peter Smith is a Seni­or Lec­turer in Tour­ism Man­age­ment at the Uni­ver­sity of West Lon­don and the co-author of Butcher, J and Smith, P (2015) Volun­teer Tour­ism: The life­style polit­ics of inter­na­tion­al devel­op­ment, Rout­ledge, London.

For the sake of the world’s poor, might the risk of overtourism be worth it?

April 20, 2021
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From a facil­it­at­or of poten­tially dam­aging masses to a mere tinker­er at the eco­nom­ic mar­gins of a place, travel & tour­ism can be any­thing a des­tin­a­tion chooses it to be.  In this “Good Tour­ism” Insight, Peter Smith sug­gests that mass tour­ism may offer more to the world’s poorest stake­hold­ers than many com­ment­at­ors acknow­ledge. [Thanks to Jim Butcher for […]

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