ENVIRONMENTALISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF TOURISM

Zoltan Baros and Lorant Denes Dávid

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Abstract: As a consequence of the rapid growth of the tourism sector, special emphasis is placed on destinations and tourism products connected to or based on certain physical and environmental factors. However, the negative environmental consequences of tourism are, in many cases, overemphasised to the social and/or economic elements of sustainable development. Thus, it is important to find an adequate balance of the elements mentioned above within tourism development in order to achieve an optimal way of fulfilling all requirements of sustainable development. In order to this, a potential method is introduced by applying the Sustainability Value Map, developed originally for buildings and urban development projects, to the evaluation of sustainable tourism products. This method implies further questions arisen concerning the selection of the right set of indicators and the importance of local or regional issues. Using it as a tool, it may promote the process of holistic tourism planning and development.

Keywords: environmentalism; sustainable tourism; environmental impacts; sustainability value map (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-11
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Published in TOURISMOS: An International Multidisciplinary Journal of Tourism 2.2(2007): pp. 141-152

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