Sustainability and Effectiveness of Chinese Outline for National Tourism and Leisure

Emanuele Giorgi, Tiziano Cattaneo, Minqing Ni and Renata Enríquez Alatriste
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Emanuele Giorgi: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño, Campus Chihuahua, Av. H. Colegio Militar 4700, Nombre de Dios, Chihuahua 31300, Mexico
Tiziano Cattaneo: China Lab. for Architecture and Urban Studies, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Minqing Ni: Environmental Futures Lab., College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, n. 281 Fuxin Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200092, China
Renata Enríquez Alatriste: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño, Eugenio Garza Sada S/N, Predio Cerro Gordo, León 37190, Mexico

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, 1-30

Abstract: This study is addressed to understand: (1) how the Chinese policies for tourism meet the international guidelines for sustainable development promoted by the United Nations, through the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and (2) how the Chinese policies for tourism are applied in reality by design practice. To answer these two research questions, the research considers mainly three groups of reference sources: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the Outline for National Tourism and Leisure 2013–2020 (ONTL) of the Chinese Government and their analyses from independent sources; the descriptions of architectural interventions for hospitality. According with the two research questions, the research is based on two phases: (1) a comparison between the Chinese policies for tourism development and the international policies for sustainable development; (2) a search of sustainable policies in the design practice, through the analysis of 30 projects for hospitality, realized in China after 2013. The results of both the phases propose a new paradigm in understanding China’s role as a country leading sustainable tourism for development.

Keywords: sustainable tourism; Chinese tourism; design and policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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