ABSTRACT

Tourism makes substantial contributions to the Anthropocene. However, the Anthropocene is highly uneven over space and time reflecting the uneven processes of capital accumulation. As a result, the Anthropocene, and tourism's role within it, is best understood as a system of power, profit and re/production in the web of life, what is referred to as the capitalocene. In other words, it is the relationship of tourism to the epoch of capitalism that can best characterise how tourism/capitalism is not just an economic system but also serves to exploit cheap natures, bodies, and ways of life to enable surplus extraction. This is done via different tourisms and the acceptance of the externalities that accrue from tourism. This paper therefore considers the inseparable connectivities between tourism and capitalism and its implications for how tourism is constructed in the managerial ecology of the SDGs and sustainable tourism and the ensuing contribution to ecocide.

摘要

旅游业对人类世做出了重大贡献。然而，人类世在空间和时间上是高度不平衡的，反映了资本积累过程的不平衡。因此，人类世和旅游业在其中的作用最好被理解为生命网络中的权力、利润和再生产系统，即所谓的资本世。换言之，旅游业与资本主义时代的关系最能说明旅游业/资本主义不仅是一种经济体系，而且还可以利用廉价的自然、身体和生活方式来实现剩余提取。这是通过不同的旅游和接受旅游产生的外部性来完成的。