Carrying Capacity of Tourism System: Assessment of Environmental and Management Constraints Towards Sustainability
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The tourism sector accounts nowadays for about 10% of world GDP (source: World Travel & Tourism Council – WTTC) and it is widely acknowledged that tourism activities depend highly on the quality of natural resources (see, among others, Inskeep, 1991). Thus, the aim of sustainable tourism development plans, in order to reach sustainable development goals, should be the decoupling of economic growth from natural environment depletion, through the definition of more sustainable patterns of production and consumption in tourism activities, as also stated by international and European resolutions about sustainable development (see, for instance, the Reviewed Strategy for Sustainable Development, the Integrated Product Policy, the Action Plan on the Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industrial Policy, the Renewed EU Tourism Policy).
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