A European Sustainable Tourism Labels proposal using a composite indicator

Blancas, Francisco Javier; Oyola, Macarena Lozano; González, Mercedes

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2015.05.001

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“…Despite the attractiveness of the WAW, and the heavy marketing campaigns and infrastructure development. (Blancas et al, 2015). Considering that Andersson and Lundberg (2013) documented that visitor expenditure always has an alternative use to that identified by the collection of information.…”

Section: Economic Valuementioning

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Application of the European tourism indicator system (ETIS) for sustainable destination management. Lessons from County Clare, Ireland

McLoughlin

Hanrahan

Duddy

2020

IJCTHR

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Purpose Despite indicators being regarded as ideal tools to help achieve sustainability in tourism, their application within Ireland remains under researched. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to advance the knowledge base in the hospitality and tourism field by presenting baseline research from the first application of all 43 of the indicators that make up the European tourism indicator system (ETIS) in county Clare, Ireland. Design/methodology/approach This study used the pre-existing visitor, enterprise and resident surveys that accompany the ETIS indicator system in a number of honey pot destinations within county Clare. This approach was complemented further through desk research to gather the necessary data on all 43 core indicators of the ETIS. Findings While the application of the ETIS in county Clare constitutes a significant advancement towards evidence informed planning for tourism. There does exist a number of information gaps relating to specific core indicators of the ETIS. Which, if not monitored and benchmarked over time, could have serious ramifications for the future sustainability of tourism in Ireland. Originality/value This paper not only discuss the findings from the application of all 43 core indicators of the ETIS in one specific destination but also develops new knowledge on the use of tourism indicators and the move towards evidence informed planning for tourism. Furthermore, this study contributes significantly to the theoretical development of our field, as the ETIS has not been applied in its entirety throughout Europe.

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Section: Economic Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

Application of the European tourism indicator system (ETIS) for sustainable destination management. Lessons from County Clare, Ireland

McLoughlin

Hanrahan

Duddy

2020

IJCTHR

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“…Some examples are as follows: (i) Miller [18] established 9 indicators for sustainable tourism through a Delphi survey of tourism researchers; (ii) Liu et al [19] considered 20 indicators according to the parties interested: tourists, local residents, governmental agencies, and business owners; (iii) Blancas et al [20] used a set of 32 indicators to assess the sustainability of coastal tourist destinations based on 3 dimensions: social, economic, and environmental. In a subsequent study [21], these authors considered a set of 89 indicators to assess the sustainable tourism based on the same dimensions (social, economic, and environmental); (iv) Nesticò and Maselli [22] established a set of 23 indicators for the economic evaluation of tourism projects in the islands; and (v) Castellani and Sala [23] used 20 indicators concerned with: tourism characteristics of the region under investigation; environmental factors; economic and social conditions of local communities; and demographic dynamics.…”

Section: Tourism and Sustainability Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenge for Planning by Using Cluster Methodology: The Case Study of the Algarve Region

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This study analyses the most appropriate methodology to make similarity classifications among the cities of the Algarve (Portugal) according to 105 sustainability indicators monitored with the Observatory of Sustainability of the Algarve Region for Tourism (OBSERVE). The methodology used to establish the similarities was the cluster analysis with 4 different approaches which reduced the dimensions of the data set: total approach, pillar approach, subject area approach, and indicator approach. By combining the approaches, a total of 620 different cluster analyses were performed. The results reflected that the data analysis approaches with less dimensions were those that performed the best groups among cities. In this sense, the approaches with a high number of indicators (e.g., the total or the pillar approach) were characterised by misclassifying cities in more than 30% of the indicators. Thus, the most acceptable cluster analysis approach was that with a low number of indicators. Through this approach, it was possible to make correct groups of the sustainability level of the cities of the Algarve. These results provided an appropriate methodology for the decision-making regarding the sustainability of a region and could be extrapolated to other regions to assess sustainability or environmental indicators.

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“…For instance, Navarro Jurado et al [18] identify aspiration levels, reservation levels, and ranges of some ecological indicators (e.g., beach stability, beach quality, a morphodynamic index, the wealth landscape, built-up areas in the first kilometre of coastal strip, vegetation, fauna) that seem to be close to the X env , minimum X env , and maximum X env -minimum X env that I applied here. Next, Blancas et al [68] suggest indicators for the environmental dimension of tourism, for both the assessment (e.g., energy intensity or water consumption attributable to tourism) and management or development of policies (e.g., percentage of the destination's surface considered to be a protected natural area, number of urban wastewater treatment plants per 1000 inhabitants).…”

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“…Many indicators in the literature seem to be suitable for a static assessment of the crucial economic and social dimensions of ST (e.g., [69][70][71]). Torres-Delgado and Saarinen [47] and Blancas et al [68] discuss indicators at local and national levels, respectively. McLennan et al [72], Cottrell et al [73], Paunovic et al [74], and Perez et al [5] discuss indicators based on stakeholder assessments.…”

Section: Cost-benefit Analysis (Cba) Vs Monetary Life-cycle Assessmementioning

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Multi-Criteria, Cost-Benefit, and Life-Cycle Analyses for Decision-Making to Support Responsible, Sustainable, and Alternative Tourism

Zagonari

2019

Sustainability

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This paper combines the most popular tourism typologies or goals (i.e., RT, responsible tourism, to represent impact minimisation; ST, sustainable tourism, to represent welfare maximisation; AT, alternative tourism, to represent continuity maximisation) and decision-making methodologies (i.e., MCA, multi-criteria analysis; CBA, cost-benefit analysis; WLCA, weighted life-cycle assessment; MLCA, monetary life-cycle assessment) in a single dynamic framework to operationally match the former with the latter. Normative insights show that MCA and WLCA are most suitable for RT and AT, respectively, whereas CBA and MLCA are most suitable for ST. Management recommendations (i.e., if a wrong static instead of a right dynamic approach must be adopted due to a lack of data, once chosen a tourism typology or goal, ST is the best in terms of level, correlation and likelihood of errors) are provided, and policy recommendations (i.e., if a right dynamic approach is adopted, in choosing among tourism typologies or goals, AT is the best in terms of precaution, ST is the best in terms of correlation, and RT is the best in terms of risk of investments) are suggested for a case study characterized by negative environmental and cultural dynamics. Positive insights show that two and many papers have applied WLCA and MLCA, respectively, to RT, but they did not account for cultural features; many papers have applied CBA to ST, but only one paper applied MLCA; few and no papers have applied MCA and WLCA, respectively, to AT.

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A European Sustainable Tourism Labels proposal using a composite indicator

Cited by 69 publications

References 27 publications

Application of the European tourism indicator system (ETIS) for sustainable destination management. Lessons from County Clare, Ireland

Application of the European tourism indicator system (ETIS) for sustainable destination management. Lessons from County Clare, Ireland

Challenge for Planning by Using Cluster Methodology: The Case Study of the Algarve Region

Multi-Criteria, Cost-Benefit, and Life-Cycle Analyses for Decision-Making to Support Responsible, Sustainable, and Alternative Tourism

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