Deconstructing the right to tourism
Jordi Gascón
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals · 2016
doi:10.24241/rcai.2016.113.2.51 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
Since the 1980s, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has been developing and spreading a discourse that takes tourism to be a right. This paper critically analyses the basis of this idea in order to attempt to scrutinise the aim behind it. The study reaches the conclusion that considering tourism a right helps to legitimise the presence of the UNWTO within the United Nations structure and to defend the interests of tourism capital, to which the organisation has close links.
Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-SA
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