Tourism Question

This assignment is an opportunity to look inward and reflect on HOW YOUR BACKGROUND AND VALUES may impact the decisions you make and the way you approach and prioritize different pillars of sustainability. ( I will give more information about me after accepting)

For example, my mother is Austrian and I spent much of my childhood there. The social system and HEAVY prioritization on environmental issues meant I too had a tendency to prioritize environmental issues over others when analyzing policies and projects. It was not until my time and work in Guatemala and Mexico where I saw the first hand the role tourism plays in social issues (from poverty alleviation to social disruption) that I began to rebalance my approach to ensure that I was addressing social issues as well. 

I recognize, that on some level, this will be a superficial activity, barely skimming the surface of the normative nature of sustainable development, but this exercise of reflection which must refer to and derive its main context from the paper titled “A systemic framework for sustainability assessment” is an opportunity to begin to recognize our personal perspectives and how they affect what we come to the table with. Let’s avoid a naval-gazing approach, and dig as deep as we can with limited experience in this exercise in order to become at the very least more aware of our individual perspectives!