Ecotourism – Conduit to a New Consciousness?

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

June 2017 EDITORIAL
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Ecotourism sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it?We do know that tourism brings benefits to a place, but we cannot deny the larger truth of what I like to call The Paradox of Observation – the more we look at something, the more we change it. Basically, neutral observation may not exist.Analogically, that is one of the reasons why modern governments install cameras on as many street corners as they can afford to. These devices are not there to record; they...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.


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