Miller, Graham,

Monitoring for a sustainable tourism transition : the challenge of developing and using indicators / Graham Miller and Louise Twining-Ward. - xxxii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sustainable development -- Sustainable tourism -- Private sector drivers -- Public sector drivers -- Monitoring using indicators -- Developing indicators -- Implementing monitoring systems -- The World Tourism Organization -- Tourism optimization management model -- Samoa sustainable tourism indicator project -- The tour operators' initiative for sustainable development. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10. Ch. 11.

"Sustainable tourism is not a static target, but a dynamic process of change, a transition. This book considers how monitoring using indicators can assist tourism to make such a sustainability transition. It encourages the reader to view tourism from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective and draws on material from a wide range of sources including ecology, global change and the new and emerging field of sustainability science. The book explains why monitoring is important for different groups of stakeholders: public and private sector, NGOs and communities. It also puts particular emphasis on indicator use and implementation. With this comfortable mix of theory, technique and practice the book will appeal to both students of sustainability and tourism as well as industry practitioners."--Jacket.

0851990517 9780851990514

2004026372


Ecotourism--Management--Evaluation.
Sustainable development--Evaluation
Economic indicators

G156.5.E26 / M55 2005

910.68