Sustainable tourism and the differents approaches and tools for its measurement
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.pasos.2019.17.064Keywords:
Sustainable tourism, Measurement, Methods, SustainabilityAbstract
The sustainability of the economic activities shows an increasing interest given that it is closely related to the environment such is the case of tourism recognized as one of the fastest growing industries. Tourism planning has become a necessary technique to minimize the impacts that this could cause. From a conceptualization of sustainable tourism, this study seeks to analyze from the theory the different approaches and methodological tools for the sustainable tourism measure and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the most used techniques; The research concludes that sustainable tourism is a not defined concept and different approaches has been done to understand and is an important tool for sustainable management. For its measurement there are the accounting and the analytical method; highlighting in its advantages the analytical method which allows obtaining a global sustainability measure of the destination, adapts to local territories and allows actions to be taken by planners.
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