An Introduction to Sustainable Tourism

An Introduction to Sustainable Tourism
Author: Alexandra Coghlan
Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2023-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1915097320

Fully revised and updated for a second edition, it provides a comprehensive, pragmatic, and realistic look at integrating sustainability into tourism. Includes two new chapters on regenerative tourism and disruptors including the impact of COVID-19 and new material on systems thinking, influencing behaviours and green marketing.

Sustainable Space Tourism

Sustainable Space Tourism
Author: Annette Toivonen
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2020-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1845418042

This book explores the relationship between space tourism and the discourse in sustainability and futures research. It offers comprehensive information on the current understanding of the space tourism industry and assesses the possible impacts of space tourism on the environment, economics, legislation and society. The volume aims to encourage more dialogue and critical examinations of aspects of space tourism related to future sustainability. From data gathered from empirical research, it provides a vision for the future of sustainable space tourism. It will be of interest to students and researchers in tourism, sustainability and futures studies, as well as individual space tourist ‘hopefuls’, space tourism industry operators and tourism policy regulators.

The Business of Sustainable Tourism Development and Management

The Business of Sustainable Tourism Development and Management
Author: Susan L. Slocum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351031058

The Business of Sustainable Tourism Development and Management provides a comprehensive introduction to sustainable tourism, crucially combining both theoretical and practical approaches to equip students with the tools to successfully manage a sustainable tourism business or destination. Covering a range of crucial topics such as mass tourism, alternative tourism, human capital management, and many more, this book incorporates a global curriculum that widens the sustainable tourism debate to include theoretical perspectives, applied research, best-practice frameworks, business tools, and case studies, facilitating a more comprehensive sustainable tourism educational strategy. Information on how to effectively implement strategies that can be applied to business environments, entrepreneurship, and job skills to enhance career preparation is at the forefront of this textbook. Highly illustrated and with an interactive companion website including bonus learning materials, this is the ideal textbook for students of tourism, hospitality, and events management at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Tourism Development and the Environment

Tourism Development and the Environment
Author: Richard Sharpley
Publisher: Earthscan
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2009
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 1844077322

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reframing Sustainable Tourism

Reframing Sustainable Tourism
Author: Stephen F. McCool
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-08-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401772096

This book examines the need for a new way of describing sustainable tourism and also looks at the frameworks needed to rethink how to apply this to communities, private operators and protected area managers. It makes it clear that tourism is just one of many human activities that affects host communities. The work includes informative and provocative case studies with realistic applications. References included in the book will help graduate students formulate new hypotheses and suggest literature for them. Tools and techniques useful to tourism practitioners suggest innovative approaches to marketing, management and community development.

Sustainable Tourism Contracts

Sustainable Tourism Contracts
Author: Sara Landini
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2021-10-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 303083140X

This book addresses the various sustainability issues that the tourism industry has faced over time like the trend from over-tourism to under-tourism or from tourism in increasingly distant destinations to a new local tourism with new needs. It also highlights how contracts, both between businesses and those with consumers, can represent tools for the financial, ecological and social sustainability of the tourism industry.

Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet

Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet
Author: Megan Epler Wood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315439794

Sustainable Tourism in the 21st Century provides students, professionals and policy makers with a global overview of the growth of the tourism industry, its impacts, supply chains, environmental management techniques, and research requirements. It provides input on how policy makers should approach the tourism industry in future in the fields of environment, business, governmental policy, and sustainable development.

Tourism and Sustainability

Tourism and Sustainability
Author: Martin Mowforth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003-12-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 113448660X

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Tourism, Development and Growth

Tourism, Development and Growth
Author: John J. Pigram
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2005-10-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134721536

Distinguishing between sustainable development and sustainable tourism, the authors examine whether, and in what form, tourism can contribute to sustainable development and growth. Focusing on different types of tourism appropriate to particular situations, the team of leading contributors draws on examples from around the world - Canada, USA, Spain, Belgium, UK, Australia - to explore tourism's contribution to the economic, social, political and environmental advancement of developing countries and the importance of tourism in industrialised nations. This book examines the new policies and initiatives established by both the private sector and the state to pursue sustainable tourism growth and identifies the opportunities and challenges inherent in achieving it.

Sustainable Tourism Development

Sustainable Tourism Development
Author: Anukrati Sharma
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0429674783

Exploring the importance of destination branding and destination marketing as well as their implications on sustainability in tourism, this book approaches the topic through the lens of destination image, taking into account the large influence of appearance on tourist attraction. With consideration to various stakeholders in sustainable tourism development, this book incorporates ideas for new techniques in destination branding and marketing in order to maximize economic impact. The book also discusses the rising influence of social media on tourists’ interest. Emphasizing sustainability in tourism development, the chapters address a number of important issues, such as post-disaster tourism marketing, culture and heritage tourism, eco-tourism, community-based nature tourism, community involvement in destination development, benchmarking for destination performance evaluation, sustainable food practices in tourism, and more. Each chapter of this book incorporates a quantifiable trend in tourism development, including various paradigms and studies that relay different statistics about certain areas of tourism. The book makes use of case studies for specific destinations and integrates strategies, evidence, and analyses to offer a holistic understanding of the myriad factors involved in sustainable tourism development.