ABSTRACT
The concept of sustained yield had become well established in forest conservation practices by the early part of the twentieth century including the setting aside of land for timber and other forest values such as recreation. The concept of sustainability first came to public attention with the publication of the World Conservation Strategy (WCS) in March, 1980. The WCS defined conservation as ‘the management of human use of the biosphere so that it may yield the greatest sustainable benefit to present generations while maintaining its potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations’. The embrace of sustainable tourism is a core premise of the ‘knowledge based platform’, which Jafari. The dilemma of flexibility permeates to all aspects of implementation, including the selection and weighting of relevant indicators as well as the identification of appropriate monitoring protocols, thresholds, and benchmarks for these indicators.
