Sustainable tourism futures [electronic resource] : perspectives on systems, restructuring, and innovations / edited by Stefan Gössling, C. Michael Hall, and David B. Weaver.
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2008, c2009.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in tourism ;
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 319 p.) : ill., map |
| Other format: | Print version: Sustainable tourism futures : perspectives on systems, restructuring, and innovations. 9780415996198 0415996198 |
| Notes: | Title from e-book t.p. screen (vierwed Apr. 4, 2011). "This book is in great part the result of an expert meeting on sustainable tourism, which took place in Helsingborg, Sweden in September 2007"--P. [xvii]. Bib#: 1604145 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Series: | Routledge advances in tourism ;
15 |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9780203884256 (electronic bk.) 0203884256 (electronic bk.) |
| Bib#: | 1604145 |
