Sustainable tourism policy for Mediterranean destinations: issues and interrelationships

Farsari, Ioanna; Butler, Richard; Prastacos, Poulicos

doi:10.1504/ijtp.2007.013898

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“…Boosting expenditure and pursuing more arrivals from these market segments (or other segments with similar characteristics) may represent a sustainable strategy and provide a preferable option to boosting expenditure elsewhere through diversification and attempts to target the higher end of the market. These findings support the arguments made in previous studies with respect to the environmental and economic advantages of maintaining a healthy mass tourism product in Mediterranean destinations like Cyprus (Ayres, 2000;Farsari, Butler, & Prastacos, 2007;Ioannides & Holcomb, 2003;Sharpley, 2003).…”

Section: Water Use Intensity and Sustainable Yield Implicationssupporting

confidence: 91%

A comprehensive framework for comparing water use intensity across different tourist types

Hadjikakou

Miller

Chenoweth

et al. 2015

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Tourism products vary in their direct and indirect (supply chain) water use, as well as their economic contribution. Hence, water-scarce destinations require a method to estimate and compare water use intensity (water use in relation to economic output) for different kinds of tourist products in order to optimise their tourism offering. The present study develops an original framework that integrates segmentation with an Environmentally Extended InputOutput (EEIO) framework based on detailed tourism expenditure data and Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSAs) in order to quantify the total (direct and indirect) economic impact and water use for multiple tourism segments. To demonstrate the rigour of the methodology it is applied to the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus as a case study. The results show that cheaper forms of tourism tend to have a significantly lower total water use and, depending on the economic impact indicator of interest, may have above-average economic contribution per unit of expenditure. The proposed framework provides a significant step towards achieving sustainable water use through destination-specific estimates of water use intensity which take into consideration segment-specific attributes. It is envisaged that this could eventually lead to customised interventions for diverse tourism market segments.

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Section: Water Use Intensity and Sustainable Yield Implicationssupporting

confidence: 91%

A comprehensive framework for comparing water use intensity across different tourist types

Hadjikakou

Miller

Chenoweth

et al. 2015

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…Another, critical reason is the power that tour operators have within the market, which allows them to control the characteristics, tourist flows and prices (Sharpley, 2001). this problem is essentially an issue of supply exceeding demand (Farsari et al, 2007;Sharpley, 2001).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Changing tourism trends, the dependency of the Mediterranean islands on the highly seasonal one-dimensional tourism product, and the mass tourism production model has left these island destinations with a small tourism season and an unsustainable product (Farsari, Butler, & Prastacos, 2007;Ioannides, 2002). this seasonality has created a number of economic, sociocultural, and environmental problems (such as seasonal employment and overuse of resources over the peak season).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Cyprus as a Winter Destination: An Exploratory Study

Karyopouli¹,

Koutra²

2012

Tourism Analysis

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Seasonal fluctuations of demand are regular in the Mediterranean islands. this could be attributed to the distinct qualities of island destinations, their vulnerability, peripherality, and isolation. this article aims to determine whether Cyprus has the geographical and governance qualities needed to address seasonality, by diversifying its tourism product. An exploratory, interpretive, inductive approach to research was undertaken with key informers within the industry to investigate these issues. the findings indicate that Cyprus has the necessary geographical features to address seasonality. however, there is high dependency on small number of tour operators, air travel companies, the narrow sun-and-sea product, and governmental control, which prevents winter tourism development.

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“…Thepolicies for sustainable tourism development and potential interrelationships between policy considerations. Such policies have been characterized as ad hoc and incremental, lacking a clear orientation towards sustainable development, and the complex relationships underpinning them have rarely been considered in decision-making for sustainable tourism [87]. Dodds and Butler found that although respondents were aware of sustainable tourism, the individual advantage from exploiting shared pooled or shared resources is often perceived as being greater than the potential long-term shared losses that result from the deterioration of such resources, which means that there is little motivation for individual actors (whether governments, elected officials, or individual operators), to invest or engage in protection or conservation for more sustainable tourism [86].…”

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An Entropy-Perspective Study on the Sustainable Development Potential of Tourism Destination Ecosystem in Dunhuang, China

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This paper analyzed the characteristic of the tourism destination ecosystem from perspective of entropy in Dunhuang City. Given these circumstances, an evaluation index system that considers the potential of sustainable development was formed based on dissipative structure and entropy change for the tourism destination ecosystem. The sustainable development potential evaluation model for tourism destination ecosystem was built up based on information entropy. Then, we analyzed each indicator impact for the sustainable development potential and proposed some measures for the tourism destination ecosystem. The conclusions include: (a) the requirements of Dunhuang tourism destination ecosystem on the natural ecosystem continuously grew between 2000 and 2012; (b) The sustainable development potential of the Dunhuang tourism destination ecosystem was on an oscillation upward trend during the study period, which is dependent on government attention, and pollution problems were improved.

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Sustainable tourism policy for Mediterranean destinations: issues and interrelationships

Cited by 54 publications

References 51 publications

A comprehensive framework for comparing water use intensity across different tourist types

A comprehensive framework for comparing water use intensity across different tourist types

Cyprus as a Winter Destination: An Exploratory Study

An Entropy-Perspective Study on the Sustainable Development Potential of Tourism Destination Ecosystem in Dunhuang, China

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