STHM 1311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Environmental Impact Assessment, Sustainable Tourism
6 Apr 2016
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The maximum number of people who can use a site without an unacceptable alteration in the physical environment and without an unacceptable decline in the quality of the experience (mathieson and. Integration of tourism into overall policy for sustainable development (ie. coordination and cooperation, reconciling conflicting resource use) Planning (ie. planning for land use, environmental impact assessment. Conditions for success (ie. involvement of stakeholders, capacity building, information exchange) Sustainable tourism and the triple bottom line. Triple bottom line is an accounting approach that includes social, environmental, and financial credits and debits. Optimal use of environmental resources that maintains ecosystems and preserves biological diversity. Respect residents and their heritage and contribute to cross cultural understanding. Ensure long term benefits that are fairly distributed. Key to engage all stakeholders in the destination community. Destinations change-and changing destinations attract different types (and numbers!) of people. Assumes all destinations go through certain stages with different economic, socio-cultural and environmental impacts.
