Responsible and Sustainable Tourism Development

Dear Colleagues,

Despite several decades of academic and practical debate on tourism sustainability and tourism ecology, its application in practice remains difficult. The dominant tourism discourse on sustainability and responsibility (focus, practice, understood as appropriate action) calls for a solid understanding of the process of how a responsible destination actually implements a sustainable tourism agenda and development, which this Special Issue aims to provide based-on the ecological makings and theories called tourism ecology. Our scope and purpose are the followings. Tourism and sustainable development have been a much studied and contested field of research. Our Special Issue can therefore be seen as an experiment—in fact, it is intended to be a debate issue. We cannot even claim that this issue will be born of a healthy compromise. We have different opinions of the definitions, processes, phenomena and the current system of tourism itself. The most contested concepts were included in the title—time will tell whether we were right to do that. We are aware that the concept and interpretation of the development of tourism on sustainable, responsible and ecological basis—or in other words, ‘responsustable tourism’ and ‘tourism ecology’—will be debated at least to the extent that landscape ecology was, back in the time. We expect ourselves to make changes to how it is interpreted, how it is viewed, in light of the new scientific findings. Finally, we look forward to have articles on any topic related to tourism development, sustainability, responsibility and ecology. Any interesting topics and themes are welcome connected with tourism responsibility and sustainability. There are no other strict thematic restrictions.

Prof. Dr. Lóránt Dénes Dávid
Prof. Dr. Colin Michael Hall
Prof. Dr. Tanja Mihalic
Guest Editors

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