Local Concern for Sustainable Tourism Development

San Juan de Los Remedios, Cuba

Bibliographic Data

ID19569765
AuthorsManuel Ramón González Herrera (0000-0002-2104-4702, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez), Mercedes A Rodríguez Rodríguez (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Silvia Giralt Escobar (0000-0003-3438-3460, Universidad de Alcalá), Elizabeth A Mackay (University of the West Indies)
Year2019
Volume07
Issue03
Pages289-310
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Urban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2328-4900 • E-ISSN: 2328-4919
PublisherScientific Research Publishing, Inc. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4236/cus.2019.73014
OpenAlexW2965312149
LanguageEN
References cited22

The growing global concern for sustainable and alternative tourism development has strengthened the scientific research and management of tourist destinations. In this context, the objective of this study is to characterize the tourism system of the city of San Juan de Los Remedios in order to understand the current problems and design sustainable solutions. It corresponds to a quali-quantitative, applied, deductive and multidisciplinary propositional research, in which the basic principles of strategic tourism planning were implemented. It presents, in a sequential and integrated way, an inventory of the local tourism system, a diagnostic study based on SWOT analysis, and a projective study for the consolidation of sustainable tourism. It concludes that there is favorable potential for urban tourism use, though this is not currently being pursued in a sustainable way; further, there is a lack of regional-territorial cohesion. This situation demands higher levels of strategic planning, as well as the creation of a destination management organization and a tourism observatory at a local-regional level. These approaches would strengthen the holistic management of the territory and lead to the creation of a competitive, multi-purpose, multi-product destination

Business · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Strategic planning · Sustainable development · Sustainable tourism · SWOT Analysis · Tourism · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Regional Development and Innovation · Marketing

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