IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/mth/emsd88/v12y2023i2p96-113.html

Sustainable Tourism Development Index: A Scientifically Practical Proposal

Author

Listed:
  • Mihail N Diakomihalis
  • Nikolaos-Marios Diakomichalis

Abstract

Sustainable tourism development requires self-limitation and the delimitation on national or regional development, within the frame of Carrying Capacity (CC), while maximizing economic benefits evaluated in the Tourist Satellite Account (TSA). Sustainable Tourism should be determined by Carrying Capacity while Development level should be depicted on Tourism Satellite Account, at national or at local level. The research question of this study is to define where the “golden ratio†is located between sustainability and economic benefits maximization. Tourism experts and academics evaluated the sub-criteria, based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), which form the Sustainable Tourism Index, within the framework of environmental protection, natural sources savings, eco-friendly practices, green investments, and of the highest contribution to GDP, to employment, to local income and to local and federal tax revenues. The results will support local and federal policy makers to design and apply tourism development ensuring sustainability.

Suggested Citation

  • Mihail N Diakomihalis & Nikolaos-Marios Diakomichalis, 2023. "Sustainable Tourism Development Index: A Scientifically Practical Proposal," Environmental Management and Sustainable Development, Macrothink Institute, vol. 12(2), pages 96-113, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:mth:emsd88:v:12:y:2023:i:2:p:96-113
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/emsd/article/download/21263/16511
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/emsd/article/view/21263
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Mihail N. Diakomihalis & Dimitris G. Lagos, 2008. "Estimation of the Economic Impacts of Yachting in Greece via the Tourism Satellite Account," Tourism Economics, , vol. 14(4), pages 871-887, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mihail N. Diakomihalis, 2012. "Maritime Tourism Tax Revenues in Greece: A New Framework for Collection," International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research (IJBESAR), Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Kavala Campus, Greece, vol. 5(1), pages 109-127, April.
    2. Doris Chenguang Wu & Jingyan Liu & Haiyan Song & Anyu Liu & Hui Fu, 2019. "Developing a Web-based regional tourism satellite account (TSA) information system," Tourism Economics, , vol. 25(1), pages 67-84, February.
    3. María J. Moreno & F. Javier Otamendi, 2017. "Fostering Nautical Tourism in the Balearic Islands," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(12), pages 1-20, November.
    4. Eli Marušić & Joško Šoda & Maja Krčum, 2020. "The Three-Parameter Classification Model of Seasonal Fluctuations in the Croatian Nautical Port System," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-17, June.
    5. Melville Saayman & Riaan Rossouw, 2011. "The Significance of Festivals to Regional Economies: Measuring the Economic Value of the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in South Africa," Tourism Economics, , vol. 17(3), pages 603-624, June.
    6. Neven Ivandić & Zrinka Marušić, 2025. "The Relevance of the “Usual Environment” Concept in Nautical Tourism Monitoring," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(17), pages 1-17, August.
    7. Yunhao Yao & Ruoquan Zheng & Merle Parmak, 2022. "Factors Influencing the Willingness to Pay in Yachting Tourism in the Context of COVID-19 Regular Prevention and Control: The Case of Dalian, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-17, October.
    8. Yunhao Yao & Ruoquan Zheng & Merle Parmak, 2021. "Examining the Constraints on Yachting Tourism Development in China: A Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Perceptions," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-18, November.
    9. Ani Trstenjak & Saša Žiković & Hoda Mansour, 2020. "Making Nautical Tourism Greener in the Mediterranean," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-15, August.
    10. Mihail N Diakomihalis & Spyros Verginis, 2020. "Tax Burden on Professional Yachting in Greece and other European Countries," Business and Economic Research, Macrothink Institute, vol. 10(1), pages 77-100, March.
    11. Amor Jiménez-Jiménez & Pilar Sancha & Ana Gessa, 2024. "Beyond Chartering: Adapting the Offer to Customer Behavior for a Sustainable Yachting Industry," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(24), pages 1-16, December.
    12. 'Phil' Klaus, Philipp & Tarquini-Poli, Annalisa & Ahmed Mostafa Alawad, Nawal, 2022. "Lifestyle of the rich and famous: Exploring the ultra-high net-worth individuals’ customer experience (UHCX)," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 147(C), pages 49-58.
    13. Beatriz Plaza & Catalina Galvez-Galvez & Ana Gonzalez-Flores, 2011. "Research Note: Testing the Employment Impact of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao via TSA," Tourism Economics, , vol. 17(1), pages 223-229, February.
    14. Hui-Chiao Wang & Taih-Cherng Lirn, 2024. "Enhancement of Marina Service Quality of Yacht Tourism in Taiwan: A Euclidean Distance of Importance-Performance Analysis," SAGE Open, , vol. 14(4), pages 21582440241, October.
    15. Liu, Anyu & Wu, Doris Chenguang, 2019. "Tourism productivity and economic growth," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 76(C), pages 253-265.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:mth:emsd88:v:12:y:2023:i:2:p:96-113. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Technical Support Office (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/emsd .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.