What does it mean to be critical of tourism?
‘We should all be critical’ … including of the critics (a short contribution to the "Good Tourism" Blog, GT Insight Bites)
For most people, to be ‘critical’ can mean one of two things: to put forward the reasons why something is wrong or not of a good standard; or to look at something deeply and from different angles.
Critical scholarship, however, stems from ‘critical theory’ and its attempts to uncover the assumptions and structures that perpetuate inequality or poverty. But that has morphed into something else.