Altink, Henrice orcid.org/0000-0001-9123-0722 (2024) Making mass tourism sustainable?:environment and resort tourism in Negril, Jamaica, 1970s-2002. Environment and History. ISSN 1752-7023
Abstract
Based on newspaper accounts, official documents, and reports by international donors, this article sets out the growing awareness about the environmental impact of resort tourism in Jamaica and action proposed and undertaken to put tourism on a more sustainable path, from the 1970s till the adoption of a Masterplan for Sustainable Tourism Development in 2002. Through a case study of the resort town of Negril, it will argue that the Master Plan was the culmination of action and lobbying by industry stakeholders and environmental groups, a global and regional shift towards sustainable tourism and pressure from international donors. It will also make the case that throughout the period, the Jamaican government struggled to balance the economic and environmental sustainability of tourism because of the centrality of tourism to the national economy and its limited fiscal space.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the University’s Research Publications and Open Access policy. |
Keywords: | tourism,caribbean,Sustainable development,environmental impact assessment,infrastructure,Coastal environments |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2024 00:14 |
Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2025 05:29 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903581 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3828/whp.eh.63830915903581 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:210001 |