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Trends And Lags In The Use Of Ecotourism Terminology In The Scholarly And Popular Press, Ralf Buckley, Claudia Ollenburg
Trends And Lags In The Use Of Ecotourism Terminology In The Scholarly And Popular Press, Ralf Buckley, Claudia Ollenburg
Claudia Ollenburg
Whilst the term ecotour was first coined half a century ago, it did not gain significant currency in the academic tourism literature until the 1990s (Weaver and Lawton 2007). Though a much contested concept in a technical sense, it has found considerable favour in political debate, albeit often in ways which do not mesh well with scholarly definitions (Weaver and Lawton 2007). In recent years, a number of parallel or similar terms have also gained in popularity. These include product-based concepts such as nature-based tourism, management-based concepts such as sustainable tourism, and socially based concepts such as responsible tourism. It …