Abstract

Potential to identify and cultivate forms of post-capitalism in tourism development has yet to be explored in depth in current research. Tourism is one of the world’s largest industries, and hence a powerful global political and socio-economic force. Yet numerous problems associated with conventional tourism development have been documented over the years, problems now greatly exacerbated by impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Calls for sustainable tourism development have long sought to address such issues and set the industry on a better course. Yet such calls tend to still promote continued growth as the basis of the tourism industry’s development, while mounting demands for “degrowth” suggest that growth is itself the fundamental problem that needs to be addressed in discussion of sustainability in tourism and elsewhere. This critique asserts that incessant growth is intrinsic to capitalist development, and hence to tourism’s role as one of the main forms of global capitalist expansion. Touristic degrowth would therefore necessitate postcapitalist practices aiming to socialise the tourism industry. While a substantial body of research has explored how tourism functions as an expression of a capitalist political economy, thus far no research has systematically explored what post-capitalist tourism might look like or how to achieve it. Applying Erik Olin Wright’s Citation2019 innovative typology for conceptualizing different forms of post-capitalism as components of an overarching strategy for “eroding capitalism” to a series of illustrative allows for exploration of their potential to contribute to an analogous strategy to similarly “erode tourism” as a quintessential capitalist industry.

摘要

在当前的研究中，尚未深入探索在旅游业发展中识别和培养后资本主义形式的潜力。旅游业是世界上最大的产业之一，因此是一股强大的全球政治和社会经济力量。然而，多年来已经记录了许多与传统旅游业发展相关的问题，而现在由于持续的 COVID-19 大流行的影响，这些问题大大加剧了。长期以来，对可持续旅游业发展的呼吁一直试图解决这些问题，并使该行业走上更好的道路。然而，这种呼声往往仍将持续增长作为旅游业发展的基础，而对“去增长”的日益增长的需求表明，增长本身就是在讨论旅游业和其他领域的可持续性时需要解决的根本问题。这种批评断言，持续增长是资本主义发展所固有的，因此对于旅游业作为全球资本主义扩张的主要形式之一的作用也是如此。因此，旅游业的去增长将需要旨在使旅游业社会化的后资本主义实践。虽然大量研究探索了旅游业如何作为资本主义政治经济的一种表现，但迄今为止还没有研究系统地探索后资本主义旅游业可能是什么样子或如何实现它。应用 Erik Olin Wright 的 虽然大量研究探索了旅游业如何作为资本主义政治经济的一种表现，但迄今为止还没有研究系统地探索后资本主义旅游业可能是什么样子或如何实现它。应用 Erik Olin Wright 的 虽然大量研究探索了旅游业如何作为资本主义政治经济的一种表现，但迄今为止还没有研究系统地探索后资本主义旅游业可能是什么样子或如何实现它。应用 Erik Olin Wright 的引文2019 年创新类型学将不同形式的后资本主义概念化为“侵蚀资本主义”总体战略的组成部分，以一系列说明性的方式允许探索它们的潜力，以促进类似战略，以类似地“侵蚀旅游业”作为典型的资本主义行业。