Paths to success: Benchmarking cross-country sustainable tourism

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• 作者：Lucian Cernat^a ; Julien Gourdon^b ; ^c ; ^{julien.gourdon@cepii.fr}
• 关键词：Tourism activity ; Sustainability
• 刊名：Tourism Management
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：83_02615177
• 类别：bus
• 出版时间：October, 2012
• 卷：33
• 期：5
• 页码：1044-1056
• 文件大小：470 K

摘要

Given the complexity of the issues surrounding the concept of sustainable tourism, the current paper tries to provide a unified methodology to assess tourism sustainability, based on a number of quantitative indicators. The proposed methodological framework (Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool - STBT) will provide a number of benchmarks against which the sustainability of tourism activities in various countries can be assessed. A model development procedure is proposed: identification of the dimensions (economic, socio-ecologic, infrastructure) and indicators, method of scaling, chart representation and evaluation on three Asian countries. This application to three countries shows us that a similar level of tourism activity might bring on different sorts of improvements to implement in the tourism activity and might have different consequences for the socio-ecological environment. The heterogeneity of developing countries exposed in the STBT is useful to detect the main problem that each country faces in their tourism sector.