Measuring sustainable tourism: a state of the art review of sustainable tourism indicators

IF 6.9 2区 管理学 Q2 GREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
G. Miller, Anna Torres-Delgado
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Abstract

Abstract In this introduction to the special issue, we identify the key tensions underpinning the challenge of developing indicators of sustainable tourism, and use the papers submitted to the special issue to exemplify these tensions. The paper questions why it is that we need to measure sustainable tourism, the risk of becoming too focussed on measurement itself and losing sight of what is really important to sustainability. We consider who it is that should be undertaking the measurement of sustainable tourism and offer evidence of the way that societal power can be rebalanced by the kind of research inclusivity that controlling data collection brings. Determining the spatial boundaries has been a long-held tension between wanting data specificity and achieving wider comparability and engagement from policy makers and other stakeholders, while technological and methodological advances may allow for more progress to be made in addressing the weaknesses of measuring sustainable tourism. The paper questions whether indicators have led to any significant policy change, or whether the changes that have come are the result of indicators serving to create more sustainably literate stakeholders, more informed discussions and so a climate more receptive to taking decisions in support of a more sustainable tourism industry.
衡量可持续旅游业:可持续旅游业指标的最新进展
摘要在本期特刊的引言中,我们确定了支撑可持续旅游业指标制定挑战的关键紧张关系,并使用提交给特刊的论文来举例说明这些紧张关系。这篇论文质疑为什么我们需要衡量可持续旅游业,以及过于关注衡量本身而忽视对可持续性真正重要的东西的风险。我们考虑应该由谁来衡量可持续旅游业,并提供证据,证明通过控制数据收集带来的研究包容性,可以重新平衡社会力量。确定空间边界一直是想要数据的特异性和实现更广泛的可比性以及政策制定者和其他利益攸关方的参与之间的紧张关系,而技术和方法的进步可能会使在解决衡量可持续旅游业的弱点方面取得更多进展。该文件质疑指标是否导致了任何重大的政策变化,或者所发生的变化是否是指标的结果,这些指标有助于创造更具可持续性的知识的利益相关者,进行更知情的讨论,从而形成一种更容易接受决策以支持更可持续的旅游业的氛围。
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CiteScore
23.10
自引率
8.90%
发文量
91
期刊介绍: The Journal of Sustainable Tourism advances critical understanding of the relationships between tourism and sustainable development. The journal publishes theoretical, conceptual and empirical research that explores one or more of the economic, social, cultural, political, organisational or environmental aspects of the subject. The Journal of Sustainable Tourism encourages critical views, as well as new ideas and approaches in relation to the theory and practice linking tourism and sustainability.
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