Monitoring for a sustainable tourism transition : the challenge of developing and using indicators /

• Main Authors: Miller, Graham (Author), Twining-Ward, Louise, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Subjects: Sustainable development > Evaluation.; Ecotourism > Management > Evaluation.; Economic indicators.; Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Economics, (New March 2000); Natural Resources (General); Tourism and Travel.; Case studies.; Ecotourism.; Evaluation.; Indicators.; Management.; Monitoring.; Sustainability.; Tour operators.; Tourism.; Tourism development.; Tourist industry.; World Tourism Organization.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxii, 324 pages) : illustrations, map, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-319) and index.
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This book considers how monitoring using indicators can assist tourism to develop sustainably. It encourages the reader to view tourism from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective and draws on material from a wide range of sources including ecology, global change and the new and emerging field of sustainability science. The book explains why monitoring is important for different groups of stakeholders: public and private sector, NGOs and communities. It also puts particular emphasis on indicator use and implementation. Included are case studies presenting a wide range of monitoring experiences at various levels: at the international level in the case of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) indicator programme; at the regional level in the case of the Tourism Optimization Management Model (TOMM) Kangaroo Island Project in South Australia; at the national level in the case of the Samoa Sustainable Tourism Indicator Project (SSTIP); and at the sectoral level in the case of the Tourism Operators' Initiative (TOI) in Europe. The book has 12 chapters and a subject index.