Challenges for the Grearter Caribbean to achieve Sustainable Tourism
I. GEOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE GREATER CARIBBEAN This geographical region of the world is located on the American continent, between North and South America, bordered to the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, and to the south by the Pacific Ocean…
Sustainability in Palomino Tourism: Reality or Trend?
In the last decade, the word “sustainability” has become a common term in the tourism industry. From hotels and hostels to restaurants, everyone seems committed to sustainable practices. However, when these initiatives are closely examined, reality often does not match the rhetoric. In this opinion piece, the true implementation of…
Regenerative Tourism: A Step Beyond Sustainability
Tourism sustainability has been a necessary response to the negative impact that tourism activities can have on destinations. However, in the ongoing search for practices that benefit the environment and local communities, a powerful concept has emerged that goes beyond conventional sustainability: regenerative tourism. This approach does not settle for…
Ethics and responsibility of academia and researchers in the development of sustainable tourism.
I consider that our mission as researchers, research centers, and training schools, in the development of sustainable territorial and tourism, must be guided by ethical principles that give meaning and values to our interventions in the development of communities. I believe that this is an urgent social demand. 1. CONTEXT…
Sustainable tourism development and climate change. A challenge that demands the commitment and participation of all stakeholders in the tourism sector.
In the last decade, tourist destinations in all areas of our Americas have experienced significant growth in visitor demand, reflected in new hotel investments, intensive use of coastal areas, installation of tourist resorts in natural areas, and incorporation of new mountain areas for adventure and ecotourism activities, among others, which…
Tourism sustainability… an utopia, a commitment
The importance of sustainability is no longer debated today, and tourism is no exception to this reality. Tourism without sustainability should not be possible, although some stakeholders are still unsure how to make their operations sustainable. We must remember that sustainability must meet the needs of the present without compromising…
Management for Sustainable Tourism Development: The Pending Task
In our previous column, we shared the idea expressed by numerous academics and other observers of the international reality, that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic would allow us, as few times in the recent history of world tourism, to face the crisis as an opportunity. The progressive recovery of…
Perspectives of tourism in the context of a global socio-environmental crisis
La crisis sanitaria de COVID-19 ha llevado países a implementar medidas que han afectado profundamente las movilidades mundiales. Estudios realizados en el extremo sur de Chile buscan evaluar los impactos de las crisis socioambientales, sanitaria y climática y las perspectivas para la reactivación del turismo. Evaluando tendencias internacionales y entrevistando a actores locales se observa que la región de Aysén podría verse beneficiada con la evolución de los intereses de viajeros para un destino de naturaleza alejado de grandes centros urbanos. Sin embargo la reactivación del turismo se enfrenta a un escenario social y ambiental complejo que obliga a pensar en modelos alternativos adaptados a un escenario de mayor incertidumbre y de la necesaria protección de la naturaleza.
Tourism and the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals
Since the beginning of 2022, the tourism sector in Peru has embarked on a titanic task of recovering from the losses incurred during the pandemic. According to the National Superintendence of Migrations, in just the first two months of this year, 133,875 international tourists arrived in Peru. After two years…
Why is it important to understand the effects of climate change on the tourism sector of the Caribbean?
Climate Change and Tourism: Basic Notions The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) asserts that human activities are responsible for the dramatic increase in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in the atmosphere, resulting in anthropogenic climate change that is underway. Evidence of this is seen in records of the world’s average…