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Paths to success: Benchmarking cross-country sustainable tourism

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  • Cernat, Lucian
  • Gourdon, Julien

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Given the complexity of the issues surrounding the concept of sustainable tourism, the current paper tries to provide a unified methodology to assess tourism sustainability, based on a number of quantitative indicators. The proposed methodological framework (Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool – STBT) will provide a number of benchmarks against which the sustainability of tourism activities in various countries can be assessed. A model development procedure is proposed: identification of the dimensions (economic, socio-ecologic, infrastructure) and indicators, method of scaling, chart representation and evaluation on three Asian countries. This application to three countries shows us that a similar level of tourism activity might bring on different sorts of improvements to implement in the tourism activity and might have different consequences for the socio-ecological environment. The heterogeneity of developing countries exposed in the STBT is useful to detect the main problem that each country faces in their tourism sector.

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  • Cernat, Lucian & Gourdon, Julien, 2012. "Paths to success: Benchmarking cross-country sustainable tourism," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 33(5), pages 1044-1056.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:touman:v:33:y:2012:i:5:p:1044-1056
    DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2011.12.007
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