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What is sustainable tourism? |
All
forms of tourism touch the environment in which it takes place. The effects of
this contact between tourism and its environment may be positive or negative, and
they may be strong or weak. Everyone involved in tourism have
a responsibility to make sure that their activity does not have too many
strong, negative effects on the places that are visited. A certain amount of
negative effects may be acceptable as they may be compensated for by strong,
positive effects. If the costs of tourism to a place consistently outweighs the
benefits, however, then tourism to this place is not sustainable in the long
run.
Sustainable
tourism may thus be defined as:
Definition 1: Tourism that in the long term has more positive than negative effects
on the environment.
It
should be emphasized that the term environment above refers not only to the natural
environment, but also to the cultural, social and economic environments. When
determining how tourism is impacting the environment it is common to use a
so-called PSE-analysis where the
letters PSE stand for:
- Physical Impacts: Effects on the natural and cultural environment.
- Social Impacts: Effects on the social
environment.
- Economic Impacts: Effects on the economic
environment.
Although
the focus is usually on how tourism is impacting destinations, this analysis
should also include the effects tourism has on transit regions as well as
tourism generating (home) areas.
The
first use of the term sustainability as a measure of human activity is usually
credited the UN report Our Common Future from 1987. In this report, sustainable
development was defined as "development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs." Inserting the word tourism into this definition gives us a
good, alternative definition of sustainable tourism:
Definition 2: Tourism that meets the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
The
needs referred to here include the needs of both organizations and
individuals and both visitors and locals. Responsible tourists and tourism
companies must therefore behave and operate in a way that does not endanger the
chances of future generations of tourists and tourism companies to continue
exploring and experiencing a healthy and prosperous planet.
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