Responsible tourism as an agent of sustainable and socially-conscious development

• Main Author: Pierluigi Musarò
• Format: Article
• Language: Catalan
• Published: Universitat Jaume I de Castellón 2014-10-01
• Series: Recerca: Revista de Pensament i Anàlisi
• Subjects: tourism; relational goods; development; responsibility
• Online Access: http://www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/recerca/article/view/1136
• ISSN: 1130-6149; 2254-4135

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="notranslate"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">Despite the variety of banalities that are often associated with trips and vacations as mass consumption, the study of tourism – due to the commitment of social, economic, political and cultural energy - remains one of the predominant inputs for understanding contemporary society and the new social hierarchies that distinguish it. Tourism, which is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US">increasingly seen as a process that has become integral to social and cultural life,<span class="notranslate"> also plays an essential role in the social and spatial dialectic that gives meaning to the places.</span><span class="google-src-textnotranslate"> Focusing tourism through the </span><span class="notranslate">lens of "productive consumption" developed by Cultural Studies, the paper moves from the assumption that responsible tourism can be analyzed in the broader paradigm of <em>relational goods </em>to explore the role of responsible tourism as a possible way of sustainable and responsible development.</span></span></span></span></p>