Tourism in the Green Economy

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ID19908623
AuthorsBill Merrilees, Dale Miller (0000-0003-0274-4954), Amelia Green (0000-0002-7246-2074)
EditorsMaharaj Vijay Reddy (0000-0002-9600-0392), Keith Wilkes
Year2015
Pages366
Publication date2015-06-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueTourism in the Green Economy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315885681
OpenAlexW2336860450
Open LibraryOL53962441M
ISBN9781315885681
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Events are a very distinctive and visible component of the tourism sector and a good ‘bellwether’ of progress to sustainability. A green economy requires rebooting an economy to one based on sustainability principles. Tourism and its related components such as events, can make a major contribution to the green economy. An effective way to make such a green economy contribution is to draw lessons from best practices in the tourism and events domain, which is what this chapter does. The chapter first documents the literature on green events and argues that very limited progress has been made. Most events have made minimal progress to sustainability and are best described as token efforts

Archaeology · Biology · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Green Economy · Natural resource economics · Sustainable development · Tourism · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Ecology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development · Ecotourism

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