sustainable tourism development is a process that interacts with host life quality, visitor′ demands and preservation of natural and human environment. in the sustainable tourism approach, with an emphasis on the key function of hosts and guests' perception to understand and constantly evaluate their beliefs and imaginations toward tourism development in destination, subjective indicator...

—This study examined the relationship between socio-economic and demographic attributes of local residents and their attitudes toward tourism in Washington, NC, a small community where tourism is in its development stage. Residents’ attitudes toward tourism were measured by adapting 20 items from the Tourism Impact Attitude Scale developed by Lankford and Howard (1994). Factor analysis resulted...

Despite the significance and growth of tourism in the Caribbean, ontologies and epistemologies of sustainable tourism in island societies remain fragmented, fragile, fleeting and fatalistic. In a review of, and reflecting on the classical canons of tourism, sustainable tourism, and islands, within contemporary Caribbean island societies, this paper contends that our current scientific modes, mo...

The member countries of World Tourism Organization (WTO) at its 13th General Assembly in Santiago, Chile adopted the new Global Code of Ethics for Tourism on 1 October 1999. Acclaimed for its lofty goals and coverage, the Code soon became the reference point for debates on a wide spectrum of issues relating to tourism such as sustainable development, equity and protection of local cultures. The...

The paper forms a rejoinder to the paper by David Weaver (‘Organic, incremental and induced paths to sustainable mass tourism convergence’). It fully agrees with David Weaver that a sustainable development of tourism should focus on sustainable mass tourism development and not, as is currently the case, so much on niche products labelled ‘sustainable’. However, it critiques Weaver’s operational...

Sustainable ecological tourism is the ultimate goal of ecological tourism. To realize the sustainable development of ecological tourism it is a thorny problem. This paper takes the world geological park in Xinwen for evaluation object, according to the sustainable development of ecological tourism evaluation model, using analytic hierarchy process, expert evaluation method, the multi-objective ...

What’s wrong with the way that we currently do things?  Despite Queensland’s continued visitor number and expenditure growth, from 2004-05 to 2014-15 market-share was lost to Victoria and Western Australia.  With average annual tourism growth predicted at twice the rate of global economies, Queensland needs to be ready to capitalise on this opportunity and optimise its market share.  Queensl...

The problem of destination accessibility is a vital concern in the sustainable tourism development in the emerging regions due to the increasing numbers of tourism business growth in the recent times. Tourism is one of the potential foreign exchange earning sectors, which place sustainability as one of the main success metrics for benchmarking the industry’s overall development. On the other ha...