Tourism is one of the world's largest industries and one of its
fastest growing economic sectors helping to generate income and
employment for local people. At the same time, it has many negative
outsourced effects on the environment and local culture. Achieving
a more sustainable pattern of tourism development is high on the
global agenda aiming to meet human needs while preserving the
environment now and for the future.
The Economics of Sustainable Tourism aims to critically explore
how tourism economic development can move closer to a sustainable
ideal from a firm economic analytic anchor. Grounded in economic
theory and application it analyzes tourist's satisfaction and
impacts of tourism on the host community, investigates the
productivity of the industry and identify factors which could
increase economic and sustainable development such as trade
relationships. It offers further insight into how destinations
sustainability can be measured, economic benefits of a more
sustainable destination and sets the agenda for future research.
The book includes a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives
and includes cutting edge research from international scholars.
This significant volume provides a new perspective on the
sustainable tourism debate and will be a valuable read for
students, researchers, academics of Tourism and Economics.
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