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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Sustainable tourism"”.
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Local communities as sustainable tourism development partners
The Egyptian Strategic Tourism Development Plans are trying to play an increasingly important role in supporting the hoped-for transformation of Egypt’s undeveloped areas into world-class tourism destinations. The plans aim to add a considerable number of hotel rooms in the Red Sea region within …
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Enhancing and developing sustainable tourism through landscaping in Nigeria
The need to develop tourism and diversify as well as redirect the Nigerian economy away from crude oil as the sole foreign exchange earner is overwhelming for several reasons. Not only does tourism hold huge capacity to forge effective backward and forward linkages with the rest of the economy, it …
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Meaning(s) in “Sustainable Tourism”: A Social Semiotic Approach
It can be argued that ”sustainable tourism” is considered to be a solution for ensuring the industry’s long-term survival. However, the concept of “sustainable tourism” is contested. A key issue is a lack of consensus in how stakeholders define “sustainable tourism”, and this creates communication …
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Towards Sustainable Tourism Development Planning: The Case of Egypt
… important for the success of any balanced tourism development. This cannot be achieved without full consideration and integration of sustainable development principles into the planning mechanisms of the tourist destination/s. This study was initiated to justify the role of planning as a …
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Between paradise and pressure : rethinking sustainable tourism in Labuan Bajo
… rapidly emerged into one of the Super Priority Tourism Destination in Indonesia. Behind the rapid growth of this tourism, the region faces mounting pressures, regarding environmental sustainability, socio-cultural integrity, and economic equity. This thesis investigates the role of sustainable …
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Influence of Sustainable Tourism on Community Development in the Maldives
… like the Maldives, which depends entirely on tourism for its survival, sustainable tourism is essential. Several elements must be effectively managed with the long-term objective in mind for tourism to be sustainable. The local community develops via sustainable tourism, which is crucial for a …
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Sustainable tourism awareness and environmental practices in luxury safari lodges
Sustainable tourism requires accommodation businesses to balance economic, environmental and social issues, taking into account the needs of current and future generations. However, despite the ever E increasing attention on sustainable tourism and the acknowledgement of the impacts of tourism on …
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Tourism business owners understanding of sustainable tourism development in uMhlathuze Municipality
… sought to investigate and assess the attitude of tourism business owners in the accommodation sector, towards sustainable tourism development in uMhlathuze municipality. The business owners were selected from various accommodation facilities within the uMhlathuze municipality ranging from small …
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Sustainable tourism planning by local authorities : an investigation of the London Boroughs
Sustainable development has become the main objective of the policy agenda for many governments and a key principle that underpins the planning process in the UK. Likewise, the concept of sustainable tourism has been widely embraced by managers and planners of tourist destinations, as it provides a …
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Put in context: place-based sustainable tourism strategy evaluation in the Orkney islands.
… contextual circumstances and their effect on tourism-related sustainability needs. Based on this understanding, it offers a Place-based Strategy Evaluation Framework (PSEF), which can recognise whether a tourism strategy addresses the context-specific sustainability needs of a local …
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Individual and community empowerment enhancement in sustainable tourism development in post-communist Poland
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Exploring the Connections between Community Cultural Development and Sustainable Tourism in Central Appalachia
… and cultural assets in efforts to develop tourism as a new foundation for their economies. However, to avoid tourism simply becoming another extractive industry, researchers and practitioners have suggested that these communities must develop capacity to participate in and take ownership of …
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Evaluation of kindness tourism adopted from Chinese philosophy and its impact on sustainable tourism.
The importance of tourism has been well recognised and a range of far-reaching impacts come with the booming trends of the tourism industry. Except for the widely recognised positive effects such as economic booms, tax revenues and increases in employment rates, unfortunately, there are lots of …
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An Exploration of the potential for the development of culturally sustainable tourism in Kuwait.
In recent decades, sustainable tourism has emerged as an alternative to traditional mass tourism approaches to tourism development, as the latter has struggled to cope with many detrimental impacts to the socio-cultural and natural environments and, indirectly, the broader tourism economy. Tourism …
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Developing the visitor appeal of Orkney’s Norse heritage sites: A route to more sustainable tourism?
This thesis considers the unsustainable consequences of tourism concentration at destinations, and the role of under-visited heritage sites to increase dispersal and therefore sustainability at destination level.<br/>It does so with reference to the Orkney Islands in the north of Scotland. This …
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Landscape management and the challenge of sustainable tourism in northern Pakistan : the case of Karimabad.
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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Sustainable tourism development management in Central Africa: a case study of the tourism industry in Cameroon
The tourism industry in sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing one of the fastest growth rates in the last decade at more than 10% in 2006, +7% in 2007 and +5% in 2008 and 2009 respectively and this positive trend is predicted to continue in future in spite of the present global recession. …
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THE ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM; LOCAL VERSUS GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS IN VAL DI MERSE, ITALY
Tourism has been proposed as an important tool for sustainable development, yet decision-makers lack appropriate measures for its economic, social, and environmental success. "Sustainable tourism" implies a finite limit to tourism growth beyond which point it is no longer sustainable, yet to date, …
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