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Is the concept of sustainable tourism sustainable? Developing the Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool

Abstract

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 show us that a similar level of tourism activity might induce different sort 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 of each country in their tourism activity.

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halshs-00557121 , version 1 (18-01-2011)

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Lucian Cernat, Julien Gourdon. Is the concept of sustainable tourism sustainable? Developing the Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool. 2011. ⟨halshs-00557121⟩
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