Ecotourism versus Mass Tourism. A Comparison of Environmental Impacts Based on Ecological Footprint Analysis

Mehdi Marzouki, Géraldine Froger and Jerome Ballet
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Mehdi Marzouki: Local government (Yvelines department), 2 place Pierre Bonnard, Guyancourt 78280, France
Géraldine Froger: CEMOTEV-UVSQ (EA 4457), 47 boulevard Vauban, Guyancourt 78280, France

Sustainability, 2012, vol. 4, issue 1, 1-18

Abstract: Academic and policy interest in ecological footprint analysis has grown rapidly in recent years. To date, however, the application of ecological footprint analysis to tourism has been limited. This article aims to discuss the potential of ecological footprint analysis to assess sustainability in tourism. It is about a comparison of the global environmental impacts of different forms of tourism in southern countries where tourism is a major source of foreign exchange earnings. It illustrates how an ecotourism destination has a larger ecological footprint than a “mass” tourism destination.

Keywords: ecological footprint; sustainable tourism; environmental impacts; global scale; Tunisia; Seychelles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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