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This comprehensive volume comprises some of the best scholarship on sustainable tourism in recent years, demonstrating the rich body of past research that provides a fertile and critical ground for studies on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by tourism geographers and other social scientists in the future.
Since the turn of the 1990s many international development and policy-making organisations have perceived the tourism industry, with its local and regional connections, as a high-potential tool for putting sustainable development into practice. The capacity of tourism to work for sustainable development was highlighted in relation to the United Nations' SDGs, which were adopted in 2015. The SDGs define the agenda for global development to 2030 by addressing pertinent challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and peace and justice. Tourism geographers and allied disciplines have held strong and long-term interest in sustainability issues, and their chapters in this collection contribute significantly to this emerging and highly policy-relevant research field.
This book was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.
List of contents
1. Tourism and sustainable development goals: research on sustainable tourism geographies 2. Sustainable tourism: A state-of-the-art review 3. Sustainability and self-regulation: Critical perspectives 4. Inclusive tourism development 5. Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: perspectives beyond 2015 6. Corporate social responsibility in tourism post-2015: a Development First approach 7. Can MNCs promote more inclusive tourism? Apollo tour operator's sustainability work 8. Tourism and Poverty Reduction: Issues for Small Island States 9. Using indicators to assess sustainable tourism development: a review 10. Sustainability indicators of rural tourism from the perspective of the residents 11. Requirements for Sustainable Nature-based Tourism in Transfrontier Conservation Areas: a Southern African Delphi Consultation 12. Regional network governance and sustainable tourism 13. Mindful deviation in creating a governance path towards sustainability in resort destinations 14. Collaboration and Partnership Development for Sustainable Tourism 15. Beyond the Beach: Balancing Environmental and Socio-cultural Sustainability in Boracay, the Philippines 16. Community sustainability and resilience: similarities, differences and indicators 17. Evolutionary economic geography: reflections from a sustainable tourism perspective
About the author
Jarkko Saarinen is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sustainability Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include tourism and development, sustainability in tourism, tourism and climate change adaptation, tourism-community relations, and wilderness and nature conservation studies.
Summary
This book comprises scholarship on sustainable tourism, demonstrating the rich body of past research that provides a fertile and critical ground for studies on the Sustainable Development Goals by tourism geographers and other social scientists in the future. It was originally published as an online special issue of Tourism Geographies.
