AUTHOR=Sajib S M Sadat al , Nicolli Francesco , Alietti Alfredo 

TITLE=Problematizing tourism for conservation: An eco-cultural critique on sustainability

JOURNAL=European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/european-journal-of-cultural-management-and-policy/articles/10.3389/ejcmp.2022.11094

DOI=10.3389/ejcmp.2022.11094

ISSN=2663-5771

ABSTRACT=Nature conservation has often been depicted as an effective policy measure to redress the ongoing environmental problems across the globe. Ensuring sustainability for people’s secured subsistence rendered nature conservation an indispensable scheme in the tourism development policy. It is evident that during the last couple of decades, the notion of ‘conservation’ has become less established whilst tourism development has been prioritized as a profit making venture in both the national and international agencies. Numerous solutions have been prescribed by the international organizations adopting tourism as an ‘immense potentiality’ which was mostly represented a sustainability effort for the local development and environment. South Asia in general and Bangladesh in particular is not different as well since policy for nature conservation has been misplaced and misread to reach sustainability as it has always been connected with the tourism development agenda. From a systematic literature review, it was found that the use of natural resources by local people was exemplified as threat to sustainability where the relations between conservation and tourism became a policy issue. The paper intends to problematize the mechanism of tourism policies for nature conservation or conservation policies for tourism development that overlooks the local eco-cultural management practice for sustainability. Along with the environmental discourses, an eco-cultural critique on sustainability was employed.