Oskenbayev Yessengali2025-09-182025-09-182008Yessengali Oskenbayev, PROGRESS TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR TOURISM AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, Conference Proceedings: Competitive Ability of Kazakhstan’s Economy: Accelerated Modernization and Development Of Corporate Structures, ISBN: 978-605-4233-03-8, Almaty 2008, pgs. 143-145.978-605-4233-03-8https://repository.sdu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1987Since the late 1980s, sustainable developmen bas become a buzzword in development studies in general and in tourism research in particular. However, a literature review led the author of this paper to the belief that the "muddy pool" (Harrison, 1996) of debate on sustainable tourism is patchy, disjointed and at times flawed. Indeed, "little appears to have been written, in depth, on the meaning and implications of sustainable tourism development" (Hunter&Green, 1995:69).Most research had advanced little beyond the stage of formulating and discussing various principles and assumptions' (Komilis, 1994:65); while the case studies which explore the ways of applying sustainable principles to practice, often through small eco- or alternative tourism projects, provide at best a micro solution to what is essentially a macro problem (Wheeller, 1991: 93).enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Internationaleconomic growthenvironmental sustainabilitytourism policytourism case studiesArticle