Sustainable Tourism
Sustainability Challenges for Island
Tourism
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, Quick Recap on Sy and SD
SD a process of reconciliation of three main imperatives:
Ecological imperative to live within global biophysical
carrying capacity and to maintain biodiversity,
Social imperative to ensure the development of democratic
systems of governance that can effectively propagate and
sustain the values that people wish to live by, and
Economic imperative to ensure that basic needs are met
worldwide
A truly sustainable society is one where wider questions of
social needs and welfare, and economic opportunity are
integrally related to the environmental limits imposed by
supporting ecosystems
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, Quick Recap on ST
• Concept developed mainly during the late 1980s
• Resultant of the popularisation of the concept of SD and the
growing recognition of the potential negative impacts of
tourism on the environment
• Denotes the application of SD principles in tourism
• ST is said to be a type of tourism that meets the needs of
present tourists and host regions while protecting and
enhancing opportunity for the future
• ST : “all forms of tourism development, management and
activity that maintain the environmental, social and economic
integrity and well-being of natural, built and cultural
resources in perpetuity”
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Sustainability Challenges for Island
Tourism
1
, Quick Recap on Sy and SD
SD a process of reconciliation of three main imperatives:
Ecological imperative to live within global biophysical
carrying capacity and to maintain biodiversity,
Social imperative to ensure the development of democratic
systems of governance that can effectively propagate and
sustain the values that people wish to live by, and
Economic imperative to ensure that basic needs are met
worldwide
A truly sustainable society is one where wider questions of
social needs and welfare, and economic opportunity are
integrally related to the environmental limits imposed by
supporting ecosystems
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, Quick Recap on ST
• Concept developed mainly during the late 1980s
• Resultant of the popularisation of the concept of SD and the
growing recognition of the potential negative impacts of
tourism on the environment
• Denotes the application of SD principles in tourism
• ST is said to be a type of tourism that meets the needs of
present tourists and host regions while protecting and
enhancing opportunity for the future
• ST : “all forms of tourism development, management and
activity that maintain the environmental, social and economic
integrity and well-being of natural, built and cultural
resources in perpetuity”
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