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Sustainable Tourism and Community Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 2064

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Erwei Dong

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School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
Interests: leisure and culture; leisure and health; leisure and sport tourism
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In 1988, the World Tourism Organization first defined sustainable tourism as “tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities". However, the original definition did not mention culture or indicate the order of economic, social and environmental impacts. Furthermore, the definition did not address how various stakeholders should be involved in the tourism industry.  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global tourism industry experienced an unprecedented shift from over-tourism to under-tourism in most tourism destinations. Therefore, this Special Issue will focus on what lessons have been learned from the pandemic for sustainable tourism management and how community development should be integrated into sustainable tourism. 

The aim of this Special Issue is to study sustainable tourism and community development from an international perspective and in an innovative way.  This subject is aligned with the journal's scope to focus on integrating the environment, society, and economy, informing interdisciplinary research and education for sustainability.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following themes:

  • Tourism cities and sustainable tourism;
  • Urban tourism and sustainability;
  • Mega events and sustainable tourism;
  • Sport tourism and community development;
  • Mountain/adventure tourism and sustainability;
  • Tourism policy and sustainability;
  • Global sustainable tourism criteria;
  • Sustainable tourism and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs);
  • The future of sustainable tourism and community development;
  • Entrepreneurship in tourism businesses and sustainable development;
  • Sustainable tourism and local culture;
  • Sustainable tourism education and curriculum development.

Original research articles and reviews are welcome for this Special Issue. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: tourism management, leisure studies, recreation resource management, anthropology, geography, management, business, environmental sciences, agriculture, sociology, and psychology.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Erwei Dong
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainability
  • community
  • policy
  • planning

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Intensity of Tourism Economic Linkages in Chinese Land Border Cities and Network Characterization
by Jing Gan, Dongxue Zhang, Fuyou Guo and Erwei Dong
Sustainability 2024, 16(5), 1843; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16051843 - 23 Feb 2024
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of tourism economic links and networks within the tourism sector of China’s land border cities. It seeks to reveal the spatial and temporal evolution of tourism economic links in order to facilitate regional [...] Read more.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of tourism economic links and networks within the tourism sector of China’s land border cities. It seeks to reveal the spatial and temporal evolution of tourism economic links in order to facilitate regional coordination among border cities. The article adopts the modified gravity model to measure the degree of tourism economic linkage of China’s land border cities, and utilizes UCINET 6.0 software, based on social network theory, to analyze the characteristics of the tourism economic linkage network of China’s land border. The findings show that the overall network density of China’s land border tourism economic linkages is relatively low, with uneven development in the “three borders” tourism economic linkages. There is a significant core–periphery structure, with the core area gradually expanding to the northwest and southwest, and geographically neighboring border cities are more likely to form a subgroup. The analysis of the socio-spatial network relationship of China’s land border cities yields suggestions for coordinated regional development, providing a foundation for the sustainable development of land border tourism. Full article
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Approaches, Trends, and Gaps in Community-Based Ecotourism Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications between 2002 and 2022
by Mayerly Alexandra Guerrero-Moreno and José Max Barbosa Oliveira-Junior
Sustainability 2024, 16(7), 2639; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16072639 - 22 Mar 2024
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Community-based ecotourism (CBET) has emerged as an alternative that seeks to integrate environmental, cultural, social, and economic sustainability through community participation, generating increasing interest in research. In this context, we conducted a bibliometric analysis to understand the research patterns, trends, and gaps associated [...] Read more.
Community-based ecotourism (CBET) has emerged as an alternative that seeks to integrate environmental, cultural, social, and economic sustainability through community participation, generating increasing interest in research. In this context, we conducted a bibliometric analysis to understand the research patterns, trends, and gaps associated with scientific production on CBET between 2002 and 2022. To achieve this, articles related to CBET and its variants were extracted from Scopus and Web of Science. A total of 1145 publications were selected. Sustainability is the journal with the most articles published on CBET. The countries with the highest scientific production were the USA and China. Most of the studies were conducted in protected areas. The most used data sources are interviews and case studies. The field research focused on evaluating impacts and identifying perceptions, attitudes, or experiences. Despite the recent increase in the number of publications, there are still gaps related to the inclusion of indigenous populations, the use of quantitative methods in the research, the evaluation of the impact of CBET on biodiversity conservation, and the disparity between countries leading academic production and those developing CBET initiatives. These patterns and gaps suggest areas of opportunity for future research, strategies, and policies in the field of CBET. Full article
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