Sustainable tourism policies : from crisis-related awareness to agendas towards measures

Schönherr, Sarah (author), Peters, Mike (author), Kuščer, Kir (author)

The relevance of sustainable tourism policies that aim to balance the positive and negative impacts of tourism has become particularly evident during the COVID-19 crisis, which has shown the need for more research on the impact of crises on tourism policy. The findings of this study are based on twenty-four in-depth interviews with tourism organisations responsible for tourism policy development across the globe, showing that policymakers are (1) aware of the relevance of the development of sustainable tourism during the crisis, (2) agendas such as strategies for sustainable tourism are being developed and policies do translate into (3) measures related to environmental, economic, socio-cultural and community instruments. This study carries value for the development of sustainable tourism research following the theory on the penetration of environmental awareness and also informs about the variation in sustainable tourism policies in different countries and across continents.

• Language: English
• Keywords: tourism, sustainable development, pandemics, crises, policy implementation, sustainable tourism policy, socio-political capacity, COVID-19 crisis, sustainability, destination management organisations
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: 9 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 27, art. 100762
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-147625
• UDC: 338.48
• ISSN on article: 2212-571X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2023.100762
• COBISS.SI-ID: 140043267
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of destination marketing & management
• Publisher: Elsevier
• ISSN: 2212-571X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 519694873

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: turizem, trajnostni razvoj, pandemija, krize

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J5-1783
• Name: Okolju prijazno vedenje v turizmu