Special Issue "Social, Cultural, Environmental and Economic Components of Tourism Sustainability"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Geography and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Olha V. Prokopenko
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Business Administration Department, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 19086, Estonia
Interests: management and economics of the sustainable development; tourism; motivation of the innovative activities and its greening.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Tourism is the main driver of gross domestic product in most of the world. At the same time, tourism concerns various spheres of society and has a significant impact on its sustainable development. The sustainability of tourism is characterized by the economic development of tourist destinations, heritage management, conservation of nature, maintenance of cultural values, and climate change. Considering the importance of sustainable tourism, UNESCO has formed a unique program. Analyzing the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Hall concludes that “…a more reflexive understanding of knowledge and management is required to better understand the implications of knowledge circulation and legitimisation and action for sustainable tourism. More fundamentally, there is a need to rethink human–environment relations given the mistaken belief that the exertion of more effort and greater efficiency will alone solve problems of sustainable tourism." (Hall, 2019).

Contributions from potential authors are welcomed on aspects that form a link between the complex and multifaceted tourism development processes whilst ensuring its sustainability. Contributions can relate to sustainable tourism policies (Guo et al., 2019) and their social, cultural, environmental and economic components. Inter- and multidisciplinarity research contributions are encouraged.

Sustainable Tourism. UNESCO World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme. https://whc.unesco.org/en/tourism/

Hall, C.M. (2019). Constructing sustainable tourism development: The 2030 agenda and the managerial ecology of sustainable tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27(7), pp. 1044-1060.

Guo, Y., Jiang, J., Li, S. A sustainable tourism policy research review. Sustainability (Switzerland), 11 (11), Article number 3187.

Scope:

Topics to be covered in the Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Indicators of tourism sustainability;

- Sustainable tourism policies;

- Sustainable tourism and economic development of destinations;

- Tourism and climate change;

- Social, cultural, environmental and economic components of tourism sustainability;

- Tourism management to ensure its sustainability;

- Marketing tools to increase demand for sustainable tourism;

- Technical solutions for sustainable tourism;

- Advanced interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research for sustainable tourism.

Purpose:

The purpose of this thematic collection is to contribute to the development of the latest scientific advances in the field of sustainable tourism, both theoretically and practically useful for the development of sustainable tourism.

Dr. Olha V. Prokopenko
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainability
  • tourism
  • policies
  • solutions
  • development

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Analysis of the Relationships between Tourism Efficiency and Transport Accessibility—A Case Study in Hubei Province, China
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8649; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158649 - 03 Aug 2021
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There is a close relationship between tourism efficiency and transport accessibility, but there is little research on the topic. This paper takes 17 administrative units in Hubei Province as the research object, evaluates their tourism efficiency from 2011 to 2017 and transportation accessibility [...] Read more.
There is a close relationship between tourism efficiency and transport accessibility, but there is little research on the topic. This paper takes 17 administrative units in Hubei Province as the research object, evaluates their tourism efficiency from 2011 to 2017 and transportation accessibility in 2011 and 2017, and explores the temporal and spatial correlation between the two. The results showed that, from 2011 to 2017, tourism efficiency of Hubei province was high and steadily improving, space non-equilibrium gradually decreased, and differences shrank. In 2011 and 2017, the province had a good tourism transport accessibility, and the spatial distribution pattern was high in the east and low in the west. At the same time, tourism transport continued to improve, and spatial imbalance declined. In 2011 and 2017, the coupling and coordination of tourism efficiency and its decomposition efficiency and transport accessibility in Hubei Province were both good, indicative of the development of a tourism economy and the improvement of tourism transport facilities in all regions of the province. There is also a poor spatial matching of tourism efficiency and its decomposition efficiency with transport accessibility during the study period. This study suggested that the tourism efficiency and transport accessibility increased in Hubie province, but the coupling and spatial match remain not very good. Therefore, each region should improve the spatial match and coupling degree of tourism efficiency and transport accessibility, and enhance the sustainability of tourism development. Full article
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Post-Industrial Tourism as a Driver of Sustainable Development
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8145; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158145 - 21 Jul 2021
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The accepted Sustainable Development Goals aim at reorienting the tourism industry to sustainable tourism and enhancing post-industrial tourism. In this case, it is necessary to identify the statistically significant determinants which affect post-industrial tourism development. In this paper, we aim to analyse: (1) [...] Read more.
The accepted Sustainable Development Goals aim at reorienting the tourism industry to sustainable tourism and enhancing post-industrial tourism. In this case, it is necessary to identify the statistically significant determinants which affect post-industrial tourism development. In this paper, we aim to analyse: (1) the impact of economic and environmental dimensions, and of digital marketing on supporting post-industrial tourism development and (2) the difference between attitude to post-industrial tourism on the gender, age, and education dimensions and digital channels on post-industrial tourism development. The data was collected from questioning 2334 respondents during April–November 2020. The study applied the following methods: frequencies, percentages, t-test, and one-way ANOVA and multiple regression analysis. The findings confirmed the statistically significant impact of the economic and environmental dimensions, as well as digital marketing on post-industrial tourism development. The results of the analysis justified that digital marketing was a catalysator of post-industrial tourism development. In addition, the findings confirmed that there is no difference in attitudes towards post-industrial tourism with respect to the dimensions of age, gender, and education. Full article
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What Is Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Sustainable Destination Development?
Sustainability 2021, 13(7), 3639; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073639 - 25 Mar 2021
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A large body of evidence suggests that sustainable destination development (SDD) is not only multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary as its research involves the integration of knowledge, methods, theories or disciplines. The word inter- is a “dangerous” one as it implies a “dangerous connection” attempting [...] Read more.
A large body of evidence suggests that sustainable destination development (SDD) is not only multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary as its research involves the integration of knowledge, methods, theories or disciplines. The word inter- is a “dangerous” one as it implies a “dangerous connection” attempting to reconcile irreconcilable people (i.e., North institutions and South institutions), but it is also very inclusive as, for example, economic behavior is related to social background and cultural issues. Although a common view is that SDD is interdisciplinary, what disciplines does it cross exactly? With the attendant “semantic confusion”, research on SDD is working in different directions, but what exactly does the existing research take as its object of study? What are the leading themes and perspectives in the field? How do we evaluate these diversification efforts? Trying to add one more seems redundant. We believe that after nearly two decades of productive scholarship, it is now time to try to identify some potential paradigms in SDD. A content-analysis-based literature review to explore previous studies is undoubted of value, as these diverse efforts point to current trends in SDD research. Therefore, we conducted an exploratory and descriptive analysis of the literature on SDD from 2015–2020 to provide specific indications for its interdisciplinary character. As a result, a total of 175 articles in 31 crucial journals from 2015 to 2020 are reviewed. Based on content analysis, five leading themes and five leading perspectives in the SDD literature were identified. We adopted an immanent critique method to discuss our findings. We appeal for consensus instead of definition and balance instead of choice in the discourse of SDD. We suggest ways in which past academic research can be used smartly and point out some important but neglected areas to stimulate a more creative research production. Full article
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