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Tourism as a Challenge (Hardcover)
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Tourism as a Challenge (Hardcover)
Series: Tourism Today, 5
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The first tourist destinations were primarily consolidated in the
early twentieth century. Since then, tourism has undergone
significant changes in its economic and social components. Over
time, many of these destinations have now come to represent 'mass
tourism' and are the subject of many studies on the impacts of
tourism and competitiveness policies. The conclusions of these
studies point to the need for new perspectives and strategies
ranging from adaptation to new contexts to a radical change in
targets. Concepts such as 'sustainability', 'nature',
'biodiversity' or 'climate change' have now been added to the
tourism industry with varying degrees of knowledge and skill. These
offer a great opportunity to improve a model of tourism previously
oriented towards business and the institutional rhetoric of
"sustainability" - a fact now recognised by tourists as
representing the negative effects of conventional tourism.
Management of these innovations should include among its aims
environmental education and orient visitors towards awareness and
respect for sustainability even outside their leisure time.To this
end, the tourist needs to be made aware of all those involved and
their commitment to managing the destination, as enjoying the
territory should be based upon minimising the socio-ecological
impacts of tourism, and on motivating nature conservation and
participation of local populations in both these goals, as well as
in the economic benefits obtained. The challenge entails the
destination finding a good balance between economic and cultural
benefits, landscape conservation and tourist satisfaction. This
fifth volume of the Tourism Today Series presents a collection of
papers addressing the how to manage new opportunities in tourism at
a variety of destinations and in multiple contextual realities.
These papers address important issues related to tourism as a tool
for development which will give a better understanding of some of
the current challenges.
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