Download or read book Advanced Introduction to Sustainable Tourism written by David Weaver and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical review of sustainable tourism, from its beginnings in the late 1980s to the present, examines the pressing challenges posed by the effects of global warming and the persistence of deep poverty and social unrest in many regions. David Weaver explores the convergence of mass and ‘alternative’ tourism as a dominant theme. Originally perceived as two incompatible forms of tourism, they are positioned in this book through enlightened mass tourism as unified components of a single global ‘tourisystem’ with the power to achieve sustainable tourism.