ABSTRACT
A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future. Global environmental change, including climate change; increasing fuel prices; and growing criticism from environmental and social interest groups are posing substantial challenges to the belief that international tourism can be sustainable at current rates and patterns of growth. This book therefore aims to answer the questions of if and how tourism can be a sustainable industry. The book concludes that sustainable tourism is possible but that it requires fundamental shifts in operations, systems and philosophies. The various contributions identify a number of means by which this can be accomplished but stress that sustainable tourism still has a long way to travel before it can reach its destination.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Theoretical Foundations: Re-thinking the Tourism System
part |2 pages
Part II Restructuring the Tourism System: Practical Examples
part |2 pages
Part III Innovation: Sustainable Tourism Futures