An Introduction to Sustainable Tourism.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The concept of sustainability -- 1.2 Sustainable development -- 1.3 Sustainable tourism -- 1.4 A sequence for thinking about sustainable tourism -- 1.5 Sustainable Development Goals -- 1.6 Complex relationships in practice -- 2 Tourism Systems -- 2.1 Loopy thinking -- 2.2 The vocabulary of systems thinking -- 2.3 Intervening in systems -- 2.4 System archetypes -- 2.5 Tourism systems -- 2.6 Tourism as a wicked problem -- 3 Challenges to Implementing Sustainability Practices in Tourism -- 3.1 The business case for sustainability -- 3.2 Challenges specific to the tourism sector -- 3.3 Climate change -- 4 Ethics and Values -- 4.1 Basics of ethics -- 4.2 Ethics in tourism -- 4.3 Positioning your business ethics -- 4.4 Speaking up about ethical issues in tourism -- 5 Impacts of tourism -- 5.1 Issues of with identifying tourism impacts -- 5.2 Economic impacts of tourism -- 5.3 Socio-cultural impacts of tourism -- 5.4 Environmental impacts of tourism -- 6 Sustainable Tourism Policy Frameworks -- 6.1 Overview of policy and planning in tourism -- 6.2 International frameworks related to sustainable tourism -- 6.3 Tourism's sector-specific international frameworks -- 6.4 Supply chain policies and sustainable tourism -- 6.5 Developing regional sustainable tourism strategic plans and policies -- 7 Governance and Partnerships -- 7.1 Principles of good governance -- 7.2 Developing good governance -- 7.3 Challenges for governance and partnerships -- 7.4 Environmental, social and governance (ESG) -- 7.5 Other forms of partnership for sustainable tourism -- 8 Measures and Tools -- 8.1 Parameter-based intervention tools -- 8.2 Feedback-based interventions -- 8.3 Design-based interventions -- 8.4 Intent-based interventions -- 9 Operationalising Sustainable Tourism.

9.1 The experience economy - integrating sustainability into the tourist experience -- 9.2 Co-created experiences and Service Dominant Logic -- 9.3 Business models for sustainability -- 9.4 Case study: integrating sustainability into the business model -- 10 Change and Innovation -- 10.1 Understanding change -- 10.2 Domains of change -- 10.3 Innovation in tourism -- 10.4 Innovation case study: Virtual Reality -- 11 Regenerative Tourism -- 11.1 Basics of regeneration -- 11.2 Differences with sustainability -- 11.3 Regenerative principles -- 11.4 Regenerative tourism -- 11.5 A final note on growth -- 12 Concluding Remarks.

Fully revised and updated for a second edition, it provides a comprehensive, pragmatic, and realistic look at integrating sustainability into tourism. Includes two new chapters on regenerative tourism and disruptors including the impact of COVID-19 and new material on systems thinking, influencing behaviours and green marketing.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.