Overtourism, Environmental Degradation and Governance in Small Islands with Special Reference to Malta

Lino Briguglio and Marie Avellino ()
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Marie Avellino: University of Malta

Chapter Chapter 17 in Shaping the Future of Small Islands, 2021, pp 301-322 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter briefly reviews the literature on tourism carrying capacity, sustainable tourism and overtourism, three concepts interlinked with each other, and are often used to stress the costs of tourism development as well as the need for good environmental governance. In the literature, environmental degradation is viewed as one of the downsides of tourism. The chapter presents an overview of the Maltese tourist industry and reports on a survey relating to overtourism in Malta. The results of the survey indicate that most respondents were of the view that overtourism exists in Malta leading to environmental degradation, and this in spite of the lip-service given to sustainable tourism in official government policy statements.

Keywords: Overtourism; Sustainable tourism; Carrying capacity; Environmental governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-4883-3_17

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