scholarly journals Competitiveness and Sustainability in Tourist Firms and Destinations

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2388
Author(s):  
César Camisón
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Major Activity ◽  
New Ideas

Tourism is a major activity in the global economy, not only in terms of its economic impact but also its social and environmental implications. The management practices and processes adopted by tourist companies and destinations are very heterogeneous and have variable impacts on the triple-bottom-line sustainability (people, profit, planet) of the ecosystem. However, there is still only limited available knowledge about the value of different practices for promoting both sustainable development and greater competitiveness. This Special Issue includes papers that present new ideas, theories, advancements, experiences, evidence or methodologies that support the convergence of economic, social and environmental competitiveness, the factors that help ensure their alignment, and the obstacles to complementarity between sustainability, responsibility and competitiveness in the tourism industry.

Sustainable development and the circular economy in Greece: case examples from Costa Navarino and Grecotel

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-621
Author(s):  
Justin Darayus Khodaiji ◽  
Dimitra Christopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Development Goals

Purpose This paper aims to identify and analyse sustainable development in the Greek hospitality industry. Drawing on an evaluation of two leading hotel groups in Greece, TEMES S.A. and Grecotel Hotels and Resorts and their respective landmark hotels Costa Navarino and Grecotel (Lux Me) Rhodos, the authors focussed on the role that the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have played in the industry and in a country heavily reliant on its tourism industry. Additionally, this paper examines and assesses the concepts of the triple bottom line and the circular economy and suggests practical approaches by which hotels may achieve sustainability. The recommendation relies on the belief that the two concepts are interconnected in tackling and achieving a successful vision of the future of sustainability through until 2030. Design/methodology/approach The case study focus with regard to the two hotel groups relied heavily on their respective 2018 sustainability reports. Additionally, further secondary research was conducted via several journal databases from 2013 to 2020. Third-party sites were also leveraged including the UN and Forbes. Findings It is evident that hotel companies often highlight their sustainability programmes online so that they are accessible to consumers and other stakeholders – including investors. This enables companies to create and close business loops in innovative ways. Their actions on sustainable development help the local economy and in turn help the country. This paper showcases examples of two leading Greek hotel groups, TEMES and Grecotel already working towards a more sustainable operating future. Originality/value In spite of research that was limited to secondary sources, the topic of sustainability in Greece is of great value as it is yet to be fully explored. This paper does yield some practical insights that will be of interest to the industry as to how to use the UN’s SDGs as pathway drivers for a successful circular economy.

scholarly journals Eco-efficiency, sustainable development and environmental accounting in the tourism industry during a crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-64
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Sariannidis ◽  
Alexandros Garefalakis ◽  
Panagiotis Ballas ◽  
Evdoxia Grigoriou
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Financial Reports ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Hospitality And Tourism Industry

Tourism industry exploits the local fragile resources of a destination including biodiversity, archaeological and cultural areas with tourists expressing a propensity to visit places with high environmental quality and intensely local culture elements. Thus, traditional tourism management practices that are associated with the environmental degradation and catastrophe of these resources should be scrutinized and avoided. The aim for the particular study is to investigate the notion of sustainable development within the realm of hospitality and tourism industry by suggesting avenues for further research regarding both policymakers and practitioners. The contribution of this study is that it links sustainability management with financial reporting and business performance. Building on the above, it highlights the importance of accounting by shedding light on how the latter could better incorporate environmental practices and performance of a business entity into reporting improving the quality of narratives and usefulness of financial reports to various stakeholders. The novelty of this study is that it proposes the focus on accounting as a mediating factor to imprint sustainable practices adopted by a business entity in an effort to provide quality reports to stakeholders and a tool to diffuse environmentally sensitive practices from the side of policymakers.

Special Issue on Mechatronics Technologies from Asia to the World

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 567-567
Author(s):  
Takayuki Tanaka ◽  
◽  
Shun'ichi Kaneko ◽  
Aiguo Ming ◽  
Kazunori Umeda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Precision Engineering ◽  
The World ◽  
Problems And Solutions ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The 1960S

Mechatronics - an ever-growing field enblacing actuators and sensors, electronics and mechanics, controls, system design and integration was founded in Japan at the end of the 1960s. It now supports industrial development, the global economy and inventions that enable people to live comfortably around the world.Asia is one of the most active areas in mechatronics research. Asian experts meet and mix in meetings and conferences such as the Japan-China symposium on Mechatronics started in 1988, Asia International Symposium on Mechatronics (AISM) organized by the Japanese Society of Precision Engineering and Chinese committees since 2004 to bring together researchers and engineers in this multidisciplinary field to stimulate new ideas, to share knowledge on practical problems and solutions, as well as to facilitate cooperation for the future.This special issue on “Mechatronics Technologies from Asia to the World” includes many of the fine papers presented at AISM2008 in August 2008, and encourages scientists in related fields to submit their research to encourage interested researchers in developing systems and technologies to become more skilled, smarter and tougher in the real world.We thank the authors for their interesting contributions and the reviewers for their devoted time and effort.

scholarly journals Project Management in the Tourism Industry: the Basics of TMBOK

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
O. A. Burukina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Change Management ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Tourism Enterprises ◽  
National Economies

Purpose: the article aims at substantiating the applicability of project management methodology and tools to the tactical and strategic development of the tourism industry at both the global and national levels of economic development. The author sees the possibility of sustainable development of the tourism industry on the basis of a systems approach to improving the functioning of tourism enterprises using the tools and methods of project management. Taking into account the current contribution of tourism to the global economy and the national economies of many countries, the problem of sustainability of tourism enterprises and national tourism industries in general seems to be one of the foundations for solving the problems of sustainable development included in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.Methods: the study was conducted on the basis of a systematic approach with the use of logical and comparative analysis of various types of project management methodology potentially applied to tourism projects both for solving operational tourism problems and for the strategic development of tourism industries, as well as the method of structural-functional modeling aimed at laying the foundation for the tourism project management methodology.Results: the problem of sustainability of the tourism industry – the leading sector of the national economies of many countries and the global economy as a whole – has been considered using a systematic approach. An attempt was made to prove the applicability of the project management methodology and tools to the tourism industry and the dependence of the sustainable development of the tourism industry, both at the local and national levels, on more effective management of processes, programs and portfolios based on a systems approach and project management as a method to improve tourism firms’ operations. The methodology of project management in tourism as a driving force for social, economic and cultural change is considered as the basis for successful implementation of projects to ensure benefits for all stakeholders: tour operators, consumers of tourism projects, local communities and all companies involved in tourism projects.Conclusions and Relevance: currently, the tourism industry faces a situation in which tourism projects are implemented in the context of reactive risk and change management with the almost complete absence of proactive change management, which adversely affects the quality of tourism projects and greatly hinders the development of national tourism industries in general. The proposed concept of applying the project methodology based on the author’s model of project management in tourism, the model of the tourism project and the model of TMBOK (tourism management body of knowledge) provides for a system of measures necessary for integrating the project management methodology into the practice of tour operators for the further sustainable development of all tourism business stakeholders. 

Entrepreneurial universities: the role of communities, people and places

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 310-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Ratten
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Entrepreneurial Universities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
Entrepreneurial Society

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue about entrepreneurial universities. The paper focuses on the reasons for their importance in global communities. Design/methodology/approach The literature about entrepreneurial universities is reviewed with a focus on the role of communities, people and places. Findings Entrepreneurial universities need to consider the people in society in terms of how they relate to learning, education and teaching about new ideas and business practices. Research limitations/implications It is important in the increasingly connected global economy that universities be seen as the drivers of the entrepreneurial society, which helps place people at the centre of educational communities. Practical implications This paper has suggestions for educational managers and business people interested in connecting with entrepreneurial universities and their place in the society. Originality/value This value of this paper is that it includes the main ideas from the special issue in terms of how entrepreneurial universities are fostering a connected society that places people, places and communities at the forefront of the change.

scholarly journals The Discourse on Sustainable Urban Tourism: The Need for Discussing More Than Overtourism

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Aall ◽  
Ko Koens
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Urban Tourism ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
To Come

The journal Sustainability has previously published special issues on sustainable tourism and on sustainable cities (both in 2014). This special issue presents recent insights from combining the two research topics. There is some convergence with respect to core challenges that sustainable urban tourism is facing. Firstly, relating to social sustainable development, there is the tension between the quality of life for residents in different ways and the development of cities to benefit the tourism industry. Secondly, relating to environmental sustainable development, there is the tension between residents and their desire for good local environmental standards and visiting tourists that create a number of over-tourism related local environmental problems. Thirdly, there are the challenges that so far have received less attention, but obviously are expected to become crucial in the years to come: The double climate change provides risks to cities from a changing climate and from more ambitious climate policies to come.

scholarly journals POPULARIZING THE EXISTANCE OF MALANG AND BATU WITH KIRANA TOUR AND TRAVEL

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Lavenia Hariono ◽  
Elwin Graciano Lay ◽  
Sarah Maulida Primaputri
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Personal Selling ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Travel Industry ◽  
The Right

The globalization era and the next decades are a crucial time for the relationship between tour and travel and sustainable development. The need to preserve the world’s inherent assets for future generations is becoming an imperative goal not only for tour and travel, but also for all other industries that use the earth’s natural resources. The scale of tour and travel’s contribution to the global economy and its potential for enabling sustainable development are becoming more real for governments, entrepreneurs, and others who involved in tour and travel industry. Nowadays, Tour and travel’s are tourism industries that become one of the largest industries in the world. Economically, it creates jobs and contributes to increase Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as well as brings in capital investment and exports. Socially and culturally, tour and traveloffers the opportunity of providing jobs for minority and disadvantaged groups, creating adequate training in management skills, education and technology to local people and increasing incomes in rural and local economies, thereby contributing to the alleviation of poverty in developing countries. Environmentally, it is essential for tour and travel to maintain an optimal balance of its natural resources to ensure the ongoing arrival of tourists to destinations. In Kirana Tour and Travels, marketing strategy will be based mainly on make sure customers know about the existence of Kirana and the services that Kirana’s give. Because the purpose is to make the right information available to the right target customers. This will be done through implementing a market penetration strategy that will make sure that Kirana’s tour and travel is well known and respected in the tourism industry. Kirana make sure that the prices take into consideration customers budgets, know that it exists, and how to contact Kirana. The marketing always communicate the sense of quality in every picture, every promotion, and every publication. Kirana’s promotional strategy will involve integrating advertising, events, personal selling, public relations, direct marketing and the Internet (specially in media social), details of which are provided in the marketing section of this plan.

PENDIDIKAN UNTUK PEMBANGUNAN BERKELANJUTAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Familia Novita Simanjuntak
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Autonomous Motivation ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Complex Dimensions ◽  
Earth Environment

ABSTRACTSustainable development urges to merge the three complex dimensions: global economy, global society and physically earth environment. Sachs (2015) states that sustainable development is the expert effort to comprehend the world and the method to solve the crowded earth issues by the global population growth that nine times increase than the first industry era. Education is one of fatal element for sustainable development phase especially for the human (society) development. Human development becomes the main core of invesment for economy development because it is prepared for the youngst as the next generation to develop economic improvement individually for their family and also for their community (include for the State’s development interest). Marshall, Hine and East (2017) studied about the education which develop the autonomous motivation to support individu execute the pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs). This autonomous motivation will establish the environmental attitude and personality in decision making and action of sustainable environment protection and preservation.Keywords: sustainable development, education, pro-environmental behaviors ABSTRAKPembangunan berkelanjutan berupaya untuk mengkaitkan tiga sistem yang rumit yaitu sistem ekonomi dunia, sistem sosial dunia dan lingkungan fisik bumi. Sachs (2015) menyatakan bahwa pembangunan berkelanjutan menjadi cara para pakar untuk memahami dunia dan sebuah metode untuk menyelesaikan permasalahan dunia yang berawal dari sesaknya bumi akibat pertumbuhan penduduk dunia yang sudah mencapai sembilan kali lebih banyak dari populasi manusia yang hidup pada jaman dimulainya revolusi industri. Pendidikan adalah salah satu komponen yang penting dalam proses pembangunan berkelanjutan terutama pembangunan yang terkait manusia (sosial). Pembangunan manusia menjadi bagian vital dari investasi yang dibutuhkan dalam pembangunan ekonomi karena merupakan jalur investasi yang disiapkan untuk anak-anak sebagai generasi penerus yang akan melanjutkan perbaikan ekonomi baik secara individu bagi keluarganya maupun secara berkelompok bagi komunitasnya (termasuk kepentingan pembangunan di Negaranya). Penelitian Marshall, Hine and East (2017) menyatakan bahwa pendidikan dapat membentuk dorongan dari dalam setiap individu untuk melakukan perilaku pro lingkungan hidup (pro-environmental behaviours). Dorongan dari dalam individu ini secara otonomi membentuk watak dan karakter yang ramah lingkungan untuk membuat keputusan dan bertindak yang melindungi dan menjaga keberlanjutan lingkungan hidup.Kata kunci: pembangunan berkelanjutan, pendidikan, pro-environmental beharviors

Formation of background of sustainable development and transition to the «green» economy strategy

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
L.Z. Khalishkhova ◽  
A.Kh. Temrokova ◽  
I.R. Guchapsheva
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Environmental Processes ◽  
Environmental Development ◽  
Current Stage

The article is devoted to the issues of measuring environmentally oriented economic development. The current stage of economic development requires the integration of environmental development, taking into account: environmental boundaries, biosphere processes, social problems, human needs and environmental processes. A green economy can become the main point of growth for the modern global economy. The article presents a complex of measures for the transition to a green economy, as well as tools for their implementation.

Good Management Practices in Managing the Most Important Factors to Ensure Dureble Soil Quality

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (10) ◽  
pp. 2350-2357
Author(s):  
George Ungureanu ◽  
Gabriela Ignat ◽  
Eduard Boghita ◽  
Luiza Costuleanu ◽  
Catalin Razvan Vintu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Silage Maize ◽  
Cash Crops ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Fodder Grass ◽  
Alfalfa Silage

The importance of sustainable development has started to be acknowledged in Romania as well, once the various pollution sources and the restrictions affecting industrial and agricultural pollution were identified, from an economic and ecological standpoint. Sustainable development represents the need of raising awareness about environmental protection and educating people, and this aspect is reflected by the evolution of communal policies in recent years, policies marked by a shift from an approach based on constraints and sanctions to a higher level of flexibility, based on incentives. The purpose of this paper is to make a recommendation for improving existing policy by making an assessment of economic incentives in order to stimulate farmers to adopt sustainable farming systems of a viable, sustainable agriculture, capable to apply the newest technologies and lead to profit and efficiency, to the economical and organizational consolidation. To analyse the effects of different zone packages on income of farmers and the environment a linear programming model is developed for a typical, 192 ha mixed farm in the Iasi region plain pilot area. The major activities of the farm is keeping dairy cattle, growing fodder (grass, alfalfa, silage maize) and cash crops (winter wheat and maize).

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