Sustainable tourism composite indicators: a dynamic evaluation to manage changes in sustainability

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

doi:10.1080/09669582.2015.1122014

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“…In the latest years, considering the growing literature and its relative robustness, the research has focused on specific topics, like sustainable tourism [2], rather than adventure tourism [40], or analyzed the impact of some managerial subjects, like finance, on tourism industry, in order to evaluate their relative impact factor [51]. In some cases, like in [39], the authors also combine bibliometric analysis with other techniques, like content analysis and a quantitative literature review.…”

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Sustainable Tourism in the Open Innovation Realm: A Bibliometric Analysis

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This study evaluates bibliometric analysis of sustainable tourism in the open innovation realm, depicts emerging themes, and offers critical discussion for theory development and further research. Through the use of bibliometrix, this paper investigates the amount of studies conducted in this area and verifies if such studies have represented a contribution to the evolving research in the field of sustainable tourism. Specifically, the paper identifies whether and to what extent scholars have explored these interconnections and maps to get to a conceptual structure of the field under investigation. The results identify the development status and the leading trends in terms of impact, main journals, papers, topics, authors, and countries. The analysis and the graphical presentations are crucial, as they can help both researchers and practitioners to better understand the state of the art of sustainable tourism in the experiential and digital era.

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Sustainable Tourism in the Open Innovation Realm: A Bibliometric Analysis

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“…Despite the general lack of studies providing typologies to support tourism-oriented policy initiatives, there is some relevant past research that used indicators to build some types of typologies. At the national scale, a classification of countries using indicators was developed by Bojanic (2011) and Blancas et al (2016). In Bojanic's study (2011), 120 countries were grouped in terms of the relative importance of tourism to their economies, after which the groups were assessed according to their environmental performance.…”

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“…In Bojanic's study (2011), 120 countries were grouped in terms of the relative importance of tourism to their economies, after which the groups were assessed according to their environmental performance. In addition, Blancas et al (2016) used a composite indicator with many sub-indicators to measure tourism sustainability for a set of countries in both static and dynamic contexts. The evaluation resulted in a grouping of countries according to their sustainability levels.…”

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Considering regional challenges when prioritizing tourism policy interventions: evidence from a Mediterranean community of projects

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Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Policy-led interventions in the tourism domain should acknowledge the particular challenges of the territories to be implemented to promote desirable impacts. When intervention areas exceed the national level, the indicator approach may prove effective in determining the particular needs of different areas, thus better identifying projects that could bring the most change to lagging areas. The present study tests the potential of indicators to drive spatially targeted policies by proposing and implementing a methodological framework that examines whether the activities of selected projects under the 1 st call of the Interreg-MED Thematic Objective of Sustainable Tourism effectively covered the needs of the Mediterranean regions. Furthermore, it builds regional clusters as a means to prioritize future interventions in the most suitable regions, in consideration of their particular weaknesses. The analysis revealed that interventions could have been more effectively allocated, and that more active participation of Mediterranean regions is needed. The proposed framework could serve as a starting point for enhancing the evaluation processes for project selection and lead to improvements in the policy framework for sustainable tourism.

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“…Few indicators in the literature seem to be suitable for a dynamic assessment of the crucial cultural dimensions of AT [67]. In particular, Blancas et al [81] suggest indicators for managing the cultural dimension of tourism (e.g., number of cultural properties, practices and expressions inscribed in the UNESCO World Intangible Heritage List or in its Tentative List). Next, Torres-Delgado and Saarinen [47] suggest indicators for assessing the cultural dimension of tourism (e.g., type and amount of training given to tourism employees, employment in producing traditional handicrafts).…”

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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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Sustainable tourism composite indicators: a dynamic evaluation to manage changes in sustainability

Cited by 71 publications

References 28 publications

Sustainable Tourism in the Open Innovation Realm: A Bibliometric Analysis

Sustainable Tourism in the Open Innovation Realm: A Bibliometric Analysis

Considering regional challenges when prioritizing tourism policy interventions: evidence from a Mediterranean community of projects

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

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