Innovative Pathways to Sustainable Tourism in Greece: Leveraging Open Environmental Accounting and Business Ecosystems

Christos Sarigiannidis, Constantinos Halkiopoulos () and Basilis Boutsinas
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Christos Sarigiannidis: University of Patras
Constantinos Halkiopoulos: University of Patras
Basilis Boutsinas: University of Patras

A chapter in Innovation and Creativity in Tourism, Business and Social Sciences, 2025, pp 741-767 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Tourism is an important industry that can lead to economic profits while supporting the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, it can also contribute to the degradation of the environment and social infrastructure, as well as to the creation of serious inequalities. Tourism has the potential to destroy available shared environmental resources through overuse combined with poor environmental management practices and limited, or non-existent transparency in this area. The water scarcity, the depletion and degradation of natural resources, the destruction of biodiversity, the poor management of solid and liquid waste, the inadequate and dangerous infrastructure, social inequalities, etc. The current model is not sustainable and despite the efforts of businesses in the sector and state actors to shift to sustainability, the uncontrolled dominance of mass tourism remains. In this paper, the view is presented that, in order to achieve the transition to a truly sustainable tourism, tourism business ecosystems should be developed, in which environmental and social issues will involve all interested parties, such as governmental actors, and local community actors, who will draw information from an open system of environmental accounting (EA), using sophisticated tools that will provide reliable and comparable environmental information.

Keywords: Sustainable tourism; Business ecosystems; Environmental Accounting (EA); Open Environmental Accounting systems; Tourism management; Environmental management; Social sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L86 M14 M31 O13 O33 Q01 Q56 Z32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78471-2_34

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