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Sustainability and Precious Care in Tourism Lifestyle Enterprise : TEFI10 Conference 3-6 June 2018 Pyhätunturi, Finland

Reid, Stuart LU orcid (2018) p.73-77
Abstract
In modernity’s tourism, nature is just a resource. In modernity, enterprises exploit human and natural resources, churning out products to feed the modern desire to consume. In the process, people and nature are carelessly ‘used up’. Thus, Brundtland’s famous exhortation for sustainable development (Brundtland, 1987) remains unheeded, and the rhetoric of sustainable tourism (Bramwell & Lane, 1993; Liburd, 2010) has had no discernible effect (Gössling, Hall, Ekström, Engeset, & Aall, 2012). Lifestyle enterprise seems to offer an anti-modernist creed of care. The lifestyle preference for smallness and localness offers promise for sustainability, but the lifestyle is hard to sustain in modernity. In this context, the caring is both... (More)
In modernity’s tourism, nature is just a resource. In modernity, enterprises exploit human and natural resources, churning out products to feed the modern desire to consume. In the process, people and nature are carelessly ‘used up’. Thus, Brundtland’s famous exhortation for sustainable development (Brundtland, 1987) remains unheeded, and the rhetoric of sustainable tourism (Bramwell & Lane, 1993; Liburd, 2010) has had no discernible effect (Gössling, Hall, Ekström, Engeset, & Aall, 2012). Lifestyle enterprise seems to offer an anti-modernist creed of care. The lifestyle preference for smallness and localness offers promise for sustainability, but the lifestyle is hard to sustain in modernity. In this context, the caring is both precious and precarious. This paper will qualitatively examine six cases of tourism lifestyle enterprise, contemplating the preciousness and precariousness of caring as a balm for the destructive carelessness to nature in modernity. (Less)
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publication status
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subject
keywords
Entrepreneurial, Entrepreneurship, lifestyle entrepreneurs, Modernity, Care, Sustainable Tourism, Tourism, Social Capital, Human capital, Natural capital
host publication
Knowing with nature - the future of tourism education in the Anthropocene
editor
Kugapi, Outi and Äijälä, Mikko
pages
5 pages
publisher
Multidimensional Tourism Institute
ISBN
978-952-6620-34-3
project
Constituting Enterprising: Investigating the construction of lifestyle enterprise in Sweden
language
English
LU publication?
yes
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48f35730-1cf8-44e9-905b-de669b3b8dfc
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https://www.ulapland.fi/loader.aspx?id=b9f0bf31-d107-46b1-b9c0-9b7b9cc6a638
date added to LUP
2018-06-07 20:50:11
date last changed
2018-11-21 21:40:13
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  abstract     = {{In modernity’s tourism, nature is just a resource. In modernity, enterprises exploit human and natural resources, churning out products to feed the modern desire to consume. In the process, people and nature are carelessly ‘used up’. Thus, Brundtland’s famous exhortation for sustainable development (Brundtland, 1987) remains unheeded, and the rhetoric of sustainable tourism (Bramwell & Lane, 1993; Liburd, 2010) has had no discernible effect (Gössling, Hall, Ekström, Engeset, & Aall, 2012). Lifestyle enterprise seems to offer an anti-modernist creed of care. The lifestyle preference for smallness and localness offers promise for sustainability, but the lifestyle is hard to sustain in modernity. In this context, the caring is both precious and precarious. This paper will qualitatively examine six cases of tourism lifestyle enterprise, contemplating the preciousness and precariousness of caring as a balm for the destructive carelessness to nature in modernity.}},
  author       = {{Reid, Stuart}},
  booktitle    = {{Knowing with nature - the future of tourism education in the Anthropocene}},
  editor       = {{Kugapi, Outi and Äijälä, Mikko}},
  isbn         = {{978-952-6620-34-3}},
  keywords     = {{Entrepreneurial; Entrepreneurship; lifestyle entrepreneurs; Modernity; Care; Sustainable Tourism; Tourism; Social Capital; Human capital; Natural capital}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{73--77}},
  publisher    = {{Multidimensional Tourism Institute}},
  title        = {{Sustainability and Precious Care in Tourism Lifestyle Enterprise : TEFI10 Conference 3-6 June 2018 Pyhätunturi, Finland}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/45645231/TEFI_conference_Sustainability_and_Precious_Care_S_Reid.pdf}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}