Tourism and Sustainable Development Indicators: The Gap between Theoretical Demands and Practical Achievements

Céron, Jean-Paul; Dubois, Ghislain

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“…Ceron and Dubois (2003) argued that identifying indicators is more difficult for tourism than other industries owing to the low reliability of data and difficulty of defining the limits of tourism activity. This is especially true as indicators have, in recent years, evolved from traditional economic measures to ones that are more holistic, combining economic, social, and environmental topics.…”

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The search for meaningful tourism indicators: the case of the International Upper Great Lakes Study

McCole

Joppe

2014

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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The recent rise in evidence-based policy-making means tourism interests are increasingly impacted by policies informed by quantifiable data. With complex issues impacting stakeholders with differing and often competing interests, policy-makers sometimes commission large interdisciplinary studies to help synthesize the potential data that can be used to inform the policy-making process. To help manage the data generated by these studies, study leaders often set guidelines for the types of data that can be used to inform recommendations, often requiring quantitative indicators. However, because of the nature of tourism, and the difficulties associated with isolating tourism activity, the data requirements of these studies may favor other stakeholders who have interests in the policies resulting from these types of studies. This case study of the International Upper Great Lakes Study provides an example of a large multidisciplinary study that aimed to inform policies for managing water levels in the North American Great Lakes by examining the impacts of water-level fluctuations on six stakeholder groups, including tourism. In this case, the data requirements of the study prevented the tourism industry's needs from being fully addressed in the final recommendations to policy-makers. This paper makes a contribution to the literature by examining the specific challenges that the tourism industry faces when evidence is required to inform the decisions of policy-makers. ResumenEl reciente incremento del desarrollo de políticas basadas en la evidencia significa que los intereses del turismo están cada vez más influidos por las políticas creadas a partir de datos cuantificables. Teniendo en cuenta aspectos complejos que impactan en grupos de interés con intereses dispares y, con frecuencia, en competencia, los responsables políticos encargan, en ocasiones, amplios estudios interdisciplinares para ayudar a sintetizar los datos potenciales que pueden ser utilizados en el proceso de creación de políticas. Para ayudar a gestionar los datos generados por estos estudios, sus líderes establecen a menudo directrices para los tipos de datos que pueden ser utilizados con el fin de alumbrar las recomendaciones, exigiendo, muchas veces, indicadores cuantitativos. Sin embargo, debido a la naturaleza del turismo, y a las dificultades asociadas con el aislamiento de la actividad turística, los requisitos para los datos de estos estudios pueden favorecer a aquellos grupos de interés que tienen interés en las políticas resultantes de este tipo de estudios. El caso del Estudio Internacional de los Grades Lagos Superiores proporciona un ejemplo de un gran estudio multidisciplinar que pretende asesorar las políticas para la gestión de los niveles de agua en los Grandes Lagos de Norteamérica mediante el examen de los impactos de las fluctuaciones de los niveles del agua en seis grupos de interés, incluyendo el turismo. En este caso, los requisitos de datos del estudio impedían abordar completamente las necesidades de la industria turística en ...

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The search for meaningful tourism indicators: the case of the International Upper Great Lakes Study

McCole

Joppe

2014

Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events

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“…Firstly, international tourism is a special kind of export activity where consumption, and the associated MSW generation, is made at the exporting country (Vanhove, 2005); therefore, the exclusion of tourism may bias upwards the effect of economic growth on MSW generation for those countries specializing in tourism. Secondly, tourism is especially intensive in MSW generation compared to other economic sectors, like manufacturing or agriculture, more prone to produce other kind of polluting outputs (Ceron and Dubois, 2003;Dubois, 2005;Magrinho et al, 2006;Dodds, 2007;Beigl et al, 2008;Ruhanen, 2008;Papachristou et al, 2009;Mateu-Sbert et al, 2013).…”

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Tourism and solid waste generation in Europe: A panel data assessment of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

2015

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“…The researchers focus mainly on the destination's long-term economic prosperity and the sustainable well-being of its residents regarding the destination's competitiveness. Development of a system of this kind, if not properly managed, may raise many problems and to combat these the involvement and participation of society as well as that of politicians is essential for better decision-making, both by managers and social actors at destinations (Cerina, Markandya, & Mcaleer, 2011;Ceron & Dubois, 2003;Hanai & Espíndola, 2011;Tapper & Cochrane, 2005).…”

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Tourism destination competitiveness in São Tomé and Príncipe

Loureiro

Sarmento

2014

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Tourism and Sustainable Development Indicators: The Gap between Theoretical Demands and Practical Achievements

Cited by 74 publications

References 10 publications

The search for meaningful tourism indicators: the case of the International Upper Great Lakes Study

The search for meaningful tourism indicators: the case of the International Upper Great Lakes Study

Tourism and solid waste generation in Europe: A panel data assessment of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Tourism destination competitiveness in São Tomé and Príncipe

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