789 Citations
A framework for the assessment of the global environmental costs of tourism-Working Paper -
- Environmental Science
- 2003
Tourism is regarded to be the world's largest industry, with about 8% of the worldwide export value of goods and services coming from tourism. Receipts from international tourism are in the order of…
Ecological footprint analysis as a tool to assess tourism sustainability
- Environmental Science
- 2002
The environmental dimension of tourist activity on coastal and insular area of Greece
- Economics
- 2011
Tourism is widely known that it is one of the most enterprising branches of the tertiary sector of economy in many countries. Nevertheless, tourism is characterized by an increasing number of…
Impacts of tourism
- EconomicsAn Introduction to Sustainable Tourism
- 2019
An impact is considered to be the change in a given state over time, resulting from an external stimulus. It is important to distinguish internal and external stimuli: a change in state from internal…
A global perspective on the challenges of coastal tourism
- Business
- 2006
Tourism is indeed the most important industry on a global scale and continues to grow at an expected 100% over the next 10 years (Burke and Kura et al, 2001; Secretariat of the Convention on…
Tourism and biodiversity: more significant than climate change?
- Environmental Science
- 2010
2010 is the United Nations International Year of Biological Diversity. One of the goals of the international year was to gain a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss. This has not…
A Global Assessment of Tourism and Recreation Conservation Threats to Prioritise Interventions
- Environmental Science
- 2018
For the first time, global social media data is used to estimate where people go to experience nature and determine how this tourism and recreation pressure overlap with the distribution of threatened species.
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The impact of tourism on coastal areas
- Sociology
- 1997
The manifold influences of tourism on coastal areas are analysed from three different angles: (1) The development of seaside tourism including the changes of socio-economic and settlement patterns;…
The consequences of tourism for sustainable water use on a tropical island: Zanzibar, Tanzania.
- Environmental ScienceJournal of environmental management
- 2001
The results show that present levels of withdrawal are not sustainable, and parts of the local populations are already experiencing water deficits on a daily basis, so a precautionary water-management approach is suggested.
Implications of Global Climate Change for Tourism and Recreation in Wetland Areas
- Environmental Science
- 1998
Tourism and recreation are important economic activities which are major agents of change globally and, more specifically, in wetland areas. There is a regular round of activities associated with the…
Understanding energy consumption patterns of tourist attractions and activities in New Zealand
- Business
- 2002
The potential effects of climate change on the Scottish tourist industry
- Environmental Science
- 1999
Tourism and development in the Third World
- Economics
- 1988
What is the thruth behind the paradise beaches in travel brocures? What can a developing country do when one exotic holiday seems much like another, when political instability or environmental…
Sustainable Tourism Development in Developing Countries: Some Aspects of Energy Use
- Economics
- 2000
Tourism has, in recent years, received increasing attention as a low-impact, non-consumptive development option, in particular for developing countries. This positive view contrasts with the fact…
Environmental Implications of the Tourism Industry
- Business
- 2000
This report analyzes the environmental impacts of the tourism industry, which is the third largest retail industry in the United States, behind only automotive dealers and food stores. In 1998,…
In Search of Warmer Climates? The Impact of Climate Change on Flows of British Tourists
- Business, Economics
- 1998
This paper investigates the impact of climate change on the chosendestinations of Britishtourists. Destinations are characterised in terms of ‘attractors’ includingclimate variables, traveland…