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Issue number 62 December 1997 Equations – Equitable Tourism Options |
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Equations – Equitable Tourism Options
Equations is a non-profit organisation established for research,
training and the promation of holistic tourism. We work towards
transforming the inherently exploitative nature of mass commercial
tourism. We question the real benefits of tourism to the host
communities as well as its sociocultural and economic impacts.
Our Vision for Tourism
Equations seeks a world where wealth, resources and benefits are much
more equitably distributed between North and South. Our vision of
tourism fits within that framework. While there is no one transposable
model which will work in all situations, we are working toward tourism
which
--is subject to local, democratic control, so that communities are
making their own decisions about how tourism should be permitted and
regulated;
--is integrated into other community activities, so that it is
culturally appropriate and sensitive to the inequities between hosts and
guests;
--enriches both host (economically, developmentally and in terms of
control) and guests (culturally, re-creationally).
Equations sees tourism not as a means to bring southern communities into
the Northern
mainstream, but rather as one of the ways to work toward a more just
world.
--bring economic benefits directly to all segments of the host community
particularly including women and indigenoous peoples;
This is in contrast to many current tourism models, which are imposed
from the North,
require the extensive use of imports, are overly commercialised, and
reinforce inequities rather than challenges them.
For more information contact:
EQUATIONS,
198 2nd Cross, Church Road, New Thippasandra, Bangalore – 560
075, India.
Tel: 080-5282313. Fax: 080-5282313
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