ABSTRACT
This article is the result of my own research. They are motivated by the hitherto failures in mitigating climate change, as well as the progressive degradation of ecosystems and the loss of biodiversity on a global scale, which has social and economic consequences. Its aim is to discover how and to what extent mass tourism of “last chance” (LCT), motivated by the desire to see a given place or area before it disappears, aggravates these threats, as well as to indicate the need to introduce specific solutions in the field of sustainable management that will contribute to mitigating these threats. These actions should be systemic. Due to the exploratory study and the need to use a wide range of materials in the undertaken research, which concerns various places and areas on an international scale, it was decided to use the desk research method, participant observation and descriptive analysis. The research was based on an interpretative paradigm related to inductive reasoning. The most important results achieved include the identification and classification of places threatened by the development of mass tourism, as well as the determination of the main directions of activities in the field of sustainable management, serving pro-ecological goals, after which the quality of a specific element of the environment should be improved or its current satisfactory condition should be maintained. So far, there have been many studies from the perspective of tourism management, but there is no research on “tourism of last resort” (LCT) in the context of challenges for management, referring to the concept of sustainable development. The article partly fills this gap, it contains conclusions and recommendations regarding activities in the field of sustainable management in tourism of last resort (LCT), resulting from the conducted research.
