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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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 su...

Table of Contents:

• Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Tourism
• Private Sector Drivers
• Public Sector Drivers
• Monitoring Using Indicators
• Developing Indicators
• Implementing Monitoring Systems
• The World Tourism Organization
• Tourism Optimization Management Model
• Samoa Sustainable Tourism Indicator Project
• The Tour Operators' Initiative for Sustainable Development.