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places, tourism is intentionally used to

transform and engineer the society, e.g.

Singaporean authorities use tourism as part of

the city-state‘s social engineering programme.

Cultures change, and tourism is part of that

change-process.

Furthermore, members of host societies are not

homogeneous, as there are different

stakeholders with different connections to the

tourism industry. Similarly, the global

traveling masses are diverse and carry with

them their own social, cultural and individual

backgrounds. According to some, observers, a

consensus on sustainable tourism may be

difficult or impossible to achieve. Or can

sustainability and responsibility be the

Durkheimian ‗totem pole‘ (Durkheim, 2014)

that can focus minds and build a global

movement towards more responsible tourism?

If there were such a movement, then the

example by Deville, Wearing and McDonald

(2015) in this SV would provide glimpses of

things to come. Their study focused on the

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