1st Edition
Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals Research on Sustainable Tourism Geographies
This comprehensive volume comprises some of the best scholarship on sustainable tourism in recent years, demonstrating the rich body of past research that provides a fertile and critical ground for studies on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by tourism geographers and other social scientists in the future.
Since the turn of the 1990s many international development and policy-making organisations have perceived the tourism industry, with its local and regional connections, as a high-potential tool for putting sustainable development into practice. The capacity of tourism to work for sustainable development was highlighted in relation to the United Nations’ SDGs, which were adopted in 2015. The SDGs define the agenda for global development to 2030 by addressing pertinent challenges such as poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, and peace and justice. Tourism geographers and allied disciplines have held strong and long-term interest in sustainability issues, and their chapters in this collection contribute significantly to this emerging and highly policy-relevant research field.
This book was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.
1. Tourism and sustainable development goals: research on sustainable tourism geographies
Jarkko Saarinen
2. Sustainable tourism: A state-of-the-art review
Richard W. Butler
3. Sustainability and self-regulation: Critical perspectives
Allan M. Williams & Armando Montanari
4. Inclusive tourism development
Regina Scheyvens & Robin Biddulph
5. Tourism and the Millennium Development Goals: perspectives beyond 2015
Jarkko Saarinen & Christian M. Rogerson
6. Corporate social responsibility in tourism post-2015: a Development First approach
Emma Hughes & Regina Scheyvens
7. Can MNCs promote more inclusive tourism? Apollo tour operator's sustainability work
María José Zapata Campos, C. Michael Hall & Sandra Backlund
8. Tourism and Poverty Reduction: Issues for Small Island States
Regina Scheyvens & Janet H. Momsen
9. Using indicators to assess sustainable tourism development: a review
Anna Torres-Delgado & Jarkko Saarinen
10. Sustainability indicators of rural tourism from the perspective of the residents
Mercedes Marzo-Navarro, Marta Pedraja-Iglesias & Lucia Vinzón
11. Requirements for Sustainable Nature-based Tourism in Transfrontier Conservation Areas: a Southern African Delphi Consultation
Anna Spenceley
12. Regional network governance and sustainable tourism
Anna Farmaki
13. Mindful deviation in creating a governance path towards sustainability in resort destinations
Alison M. Gill & Peter W. Williams
14. Collaboration and Partnership Development for Sustainable Tourism
Sonya Graci
15. Beyond the Beach: Balancing Environmental and Socio-cultural Sustainability in Boracay, the Philippines
Lei Tin Jackie Ong, Donovan Storey & John Minnery
16. Community sustainability and resilience: similarities, differences and indicators
Alan A. Lew, Pin T. Ng, Chin-cheng (Nickel) Ni & Tsung-chiung (Emily) Wu
17. Evolutionary economic geography: reflections from a sustainable tourism perspective
Patrick Brouder
Biography
Jarkko Saarinen is a Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sustainability Management at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests include tourism and development, sustainability in tourism, tourism and climate change adaptation, tourism-community relations, and wilderness and nature conservation studies.
