scholarly journals More or Less Sustainable? Assessment from a Policy Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biljana Petrevska ◽  
Aleksandra Terzić ◽  
Cvetko Andreeski

Sustainability of tourism destinations has become the main focus in planning and managing tourism development. Despite existing legislation and an institutional framework to safeguard balanced tourism growth, many destinations fail to properly address it. So far, studies are limited in exploring sustainable tourism impacts from a policy perspective. This study follows previous ones in using the triple bottom line sustainability approach to define tourism impacts. It argues, in particular, for a nexus between understanding of policy perception and sustainability, and it applies this to tourist destinations in Serbia to determine whether they are operating sustainably. For this purpose, the data were collected using a combination of multiple methods, involving interviews with policymakers and content analysis of strategic documents. This study further suggests a model that assesses the extent of the sustainability of tourist destinations. The results illustrate the importance of understanding policy perceptions in shaping and facilitating sustainability and informing policy enablers on how to improve and reform current tourism development. The model can be adopted and applied to any tourist destination facing an inevitable need to re-shape their tourism development plans and policies, while the implications address the need to build a participative policy approach to sustainable tourism development.

Author(s):  
Edy Sahputra Sitepu ◽  
Rismawati Rismawati ◽  
Dewi Comala ◽  
Edi Putra Berutu ◽  
Jamardua Haro ◽  
...  

Medan City is currently designated as one of the 20 national tourism destinations that implement Sustainable Tourism Development (STD) in Indonesia. The commitment to implement STD nationally is marked by the signing of the text of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of 20 Regional Heads who are committed to implementing STD together with the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism. Furthermore, under the supervision of the Republic of Indonesia Ministry of Tourism, 20 existing Regencies / Cities made various improvements in each region so that they were finally eligible for STD certification from the STD international certification body. Medan City itself, through the Medan City Tourism Office, related to the implementation of the STD, has established a number of leading tourism destinations. It is hoped that in the future, Medan City will have tourist destinations that have received STD certification. This research was conducted to formulate a model of implementing sustainable tourism development in Medan with a total sample of 220 people spread over 11 leading tourist destinations in the city of Medan, samples were taken with a purposive random sampling technique. The research variables used include; sustainable management, socio-cultural benefits, economic benefits for the surrounding community, environmental benefits and the application of sustainable tourism. Data analysis was carried out with a structural model of the Structural Equation Model (SEM) with the help of Amos 22 software. The results showed that the management aspects, economic aspects, socio-cultural aspects of environmental aspects, and the impact of tourism, directly and indirectly, have a positive effect on the implementation of sustainable tourism in the city of Medan.


Society ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-233
Author(s):  
Desy Yuliana Dalimunthe ◽  
Devi Valeriani ◽  
Fitra Hartini ◽  
Rulyanti Susi Wardhani

For tourism destinations, infrastructure is included as natural resources and man-made resources are natural resources and man-made resources that are needed by tourists when traveling to a tourist destination. This research focuses on the readiness of social, economic, and environmental infrastructures available in tourism destinations. This research aims to analyze the readiness of supporting infrastructure in tourism destinations to achieve Sustainable Tourism Development in Bangka Island for today and the future. This research used an analysis model of IPA (Importance Performance Analysis) to measure the level of one's importance for the performance of other parties. A person's interest was measured by comparing the level of expectation with the performance that carried out using a Likert scale. This research also discussed the extent of tourists' perceptions of the interests or expectations regarding the readiness of supporting infrastructure in the destinations to achieve Sustainable Tourism Development on Bangka Island.  a total sample of 240 respondents spread across two selected tourist destinations for each Regency on Bangka Island. This research provides results that the types of infrastructure in Bangka Regency and South Bangka Regency are the concentrate here, such as the economic and social infrastructures, whereas in Central Bangka Regency, the infrastructure that becomes the concentrate here including economic, social, and environmental infrastructures, especially from waste management.


PERSPEKTIF ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
Siauw Tiffani Setiono ◽  
Teuku Afrizal ◽  
Eko Supriyono ◽  
Rinaldy May Wendra ◽  
Annisa Nurfitriani

Tourism is one of the fields that can increase local revenue. Semarang City, has an old city icon that can be a strong attraction for the tourism aspect. The research aims to determine tourism development plans and programs, the involvement of organizations and other relevant parties, the mechanism of implementing tourism development, and the pattern of supervision carried out for sustainable tourism development. This pattern of sustainable tourism development has high hopes for the preservation of the environment. In its implementation, it replicates the Pentahelix model, which involves Government, Private, Community, Academic and mass media components. Thus the management of tourism in the city of Semarang is the responsibility of all stakeholders. So that tourism destinations that can support regional and central income without ignoring the environment. Recommendations that can be proposed are Optimizing the potential of natural and cultural tourism as regional tourism icons; Sustainable tourism development needs to be done by empowering local communities.


2010 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dobrica Jovicic ◽  
Tatjana Ilic

The indicators, precisely describing the linkages between tourism and the environment, social and cultural base, are not easily available. How ever, some relevant organizations (WTO, EU, OECD, etc.), institutions and experts, have been hardly working to create the indicators of sustainable tourism. Whereas the economic objectives are easily defined by the use of the traditional indicators used in national and business economics, it is very difficult to identify widely applicable environmental, social and cultural indicators. In order to stimulate and alleviate the process of sustainable tourism development, EU created the list of comparative indicators of sustainable tourism. In preparing this list, special attention is paid to identification of valid indicators of real tourism impacts on the social and cultural environment (the entire set of traditions, customs, history, hospitality and culture that characterize a given area), that is a very complex task. Assuming the fact that the related indicators have been analyzed in many European countries, this paper is focused on applying the related indicators in research of tourism development in villages of the Kosjeric community. .


Author(s):  
Alžbeta Kiráľová

The chapter describes how sustainable tourism marketing strategy can bring competitive advantage to a destination. It defines tourism destinations; characterizes the principles of sustainable tourism development and its role in competitiveness of the destination. The chapter also shows a destination´ best practice in the implementation of sustainable tourism marketing strategy. The destination was subject to research using onsite and internet surveys, semi-structured and informal interview and the results were subjected to evaluation using the VRIO model.


Environments ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chung-Hsien Lin ◽  
Wei-Ching Wang ◽  
Yuan-I Yeh

Few empirical studies on the effect of tourism impacts on residents’ support for tourism development have linked an environmental justice perspective with sustainable tourism. This study aims to explore spatial distributive differences in residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts to understand their support for sustainable tourism development. A total of 1057 residents of the Lu-Kang destination in Taiwan were surveyed using an on-site questionnaire. Employing the kernel density method and the local K function for spatial point analysis, the results indicated that spatial clustering of residents’ perceptions of both positive and negative tourism impacts occurred in the specific locations. Further, high household income, high education, and more personal benefits from tourism promoted the formation of localized spatial clusters where residents had positive perceptions of tourism impacts which, in turn, led to a high level of support for tourism development. Conversely, low income, low education, and less personal benefits from tourism cultivated the development of spatial clusters with negative perceptions of tourism impacts which, in turn, caused a low level of support for tourism development. The implications for sustainable tourism planning and strategies are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 296 ◽  
pp. 05018
Author(s):  
Roza Timakova ◽  
Vitali Maksimeniuk

The paper considers one of the aspects of sustainable development - sustainable tourism development in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals aimed at preserving the natural resources of the marine and terrestrial ecosystems. The research of this phenomenon is carried out using the analysis of regulatory legal acts in force in the field of tourism. Since most authors consider the purpose of travel to be one of the generally accepted criteria for dividing into types of tourism, the study was conducted on the basis of one of the most common types of tourism – health-improving tourism, the conceptual apparatus of which is formed under the influence of various conceptual approaches, based on the actual resource potential and features of the promotion of tourist services in the territories of tourist destinations. The proposals on amendments and additions to the existing regulatory legal acts of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation determine the priority of the concept of “sustainable development” in the field of tourism activities.


Author(s):  
Stetic Snezana ◽  
Igor Trišić ◽  
Adrian Nedelcu

The most attractive tourist destinations are those that have preserved natural and geographical environment, protected nature and anthropogenic tourist motives attracting domestic and foreign tourists. Very often rural and mountainous areas in Serbia have been neglected, without developmental perspectives. Sustainable tourism development in these areas represents conditionality for the use of tourism areas, so that they are not destroyed in such a way that future generations cannot use them. Destinations that have the capability to offer such tourism resources are able to be competitors in the tourism market. The significance of tourism development for rural and mountainous parts of Serbia is extremely high given that world tourism trends are oriented towards such destinations. It is about poorly developed areas. This chapter aims at understanding the potential of mountains and rural parts of Eastern Serbia and their inclusion into the tourism offer, using the long-term concept of sustainable development of this part of Serbia.


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