This paper charts the evolution of rural tourism in the developed world as an alternative tourism form, popular since the 1970s with the market and with policy makers as a rural regeneration and conservation tool. It outlines parallels with the Butler tourism area life cycle: emergence; volume growth, complexity and geographical spread; followed by problems arising from increasing competition, lack of governance and leadership, societal change and technical developments. Research responses to rural tourism's growth and change are examined, analysing 1848 articles published since 2000 by interrogating Scopus to reveal responses by subject category and geographic distribution. The papers in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism’s new rural tourism Special Issue are discussed, noting how researchers have explored the conversion of rural tourism from sightseeing to numerous experiential activities, together with papers discussing governance, leadership, networking, product development and marketing. The paper concludes by calling for the research-led creation of a New Generation Rural Tourism, based on informed destination development and management, better understanding of markets and modern marketing, and professional approaches to holistic and sustainability enhancing management. The formation of an international rural tourism research group to explore, assist and assess New Generation Rural Tourism is suggested.

(2017). Twenty-five years of sustainable tourism and the Journal of Sustainable Tourism: looking back and moving forward. Journal of Sustainable Tourism: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 1-9.

Societies collapse when there is an increasing natural resource scarcity and growing stratification of society into rich and poor. The neoliberal world of targets, business plans and short term economic justification in which we live exacerbates these risks to society. It is imperative to find new ways of governing natural ecosystems that protect them from these risks and allows usage that helps close the development gap. Tourism in Protected Areas (PAs) is one important vehicle to achieve sustainable conservation and development outcomes. This paper highlights that the increasing focus on promoting human activity, especially tourism, in and around PAs is increasingly enshrined in the mandate and governance structures of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation natural World Heritage Sites and Biosphere Reserves. It reviews strategic planning, zoning, impact monitoring, and tourism management by analysing all 229 natural World Heritage Sites, revealing that both overall strategic planning and tourism planning in these sites need improvements, notably through more consistent monitoring systems. The paper concludes by exploring the benefits of embedding World Heritage Sites into Biosphere Reserves, with a particular focus on core zoning, regional product development, and improved monitoring standards, and suggests ways to disseminate good practice worldwide to all types of PAs.

“关键转折点”和在可持续性旅游研究中的应用最近对于旅游业关键转折点的研究对可持续旅游研究产生了重要的影响。可持续旅游的研究经常是基于对现有旅游模式的批判，以此来确保那些完全不同的替代发展方式。这里提到关键转折点研究的原因在于，这个研究为何与可持续旅游有着根本性的联系以及这个研究如何为这个领域提供了新的研究方向。可能的关键点包括：多种资源所带来的分配不均，来自统治者、霸权及异化所带来的压力，惯例特别是那些现有的经验，边缘化且不可靠的价值观念，释放出来的可能性。使用这种方法潜在的危险亦在本文讨论之列。本文提出这种研究方法在经历时日之后已然有所小成，而且这种对于可持续旅游的研究方法在吸取了其他类似观点以及对不同观点采取兼容并包的态度后，将会变得更加完善。本文会提及更多的潜在研究资源。

Rural Tourism became a worldwide and growing activity during the late 1970s and early 1980s

(2015). What drives research on sustainable tourism? Journal of Sustainable Tourism: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 1-3.