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…
“From Mass Tourism to Alternative Tourism, a Challenge Towards Creativity”: The Major Challenges Facing Mexico
Undoubtedly, traveling represents a synonym of pleasure and quality of life; it is also one of the most expressive ways of establishing and developing physical, intellectual, moral, and emotional values. Therefore, tourism cannot be static; tourism as an economic and social activity must respond to the movements, changes, and demands…
Economic Sustainability and Employment in Tourist Destinations
It is widely accepted that sustainable tourism is the best way to develop tourism activities and regional and/or local economies by balancing the economic, social, and environmental objectives of sustainable development. However, in many tourist destinations, there has been a significant and necessary focus, effort, and commitment towards environmental, cultural,…