Sustainable Tourism

An Overview of the Concept and its Position in Relation to Conceptualisations of Tourism

Bibliographic Data

ID19600480
AuthorsAnne Hardy (0000-0003-1461-2967), Robert J S Beeton, Leonie Pearson (0000-0001-6299-5283)
Year2002
Volume10
Issue6
Pages475-496
Publication date2002-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sustainable Tourism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0966-9582 • E-ISSN: 1747-7646
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09669580208667183
OpenAlexW2032626198
LanguageEN
Citations received86
References cited32

Reference to sustainable tourism is now made in most strategic tourism planning documents. Yet, despite its common use, definitional arguments exist over its meaning and subsequent operationalisation. In addition to this, literature on sustainable tourism rarely discusses its development prior to the publication of Our Common Future (World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), 1987) and its relevance to current conceptualisations of tourism. This paper analyses the context within which sustainable tourism was developed and has recently been conceptualised. It does this by assessing the development of sustainable tourism (with an Australian focus) and proposing a model which incorporates the development of sustainable tourism into tourism. The paper argues that sustainable tourism has traditionally given more focus to aspects related to the environment and economic development and that more focus should be given to community involvement

Business · Economics · Ecotourism · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Political science · Regional science · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Sustainable tourism · Tourism · Tourism geography · Computer Science · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development

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