The pattern-matching approach and its application in tourism development

Abstract

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Tourism development and the degrowth paradigm

“…While in the past scholars believed that many destinations faced the problem of un-derdevelopment, after the turn to the 21 st century the voices, which supported that development is not always necessary and that many destinations are overdeveloped to the extent that there is a need to downscale their tourism activity (e.g. Andriotis, 2009;, increased. Moreover, while in the era of globalization tourism was supposed to offer great opportunities to poor communities as free-market forces worked their magic, it has been proven that in most of them the rich have got richer and the poor have got relatively poorer (Munck and O'Hearn, 1999, p. xi).…”