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The Impact of Sustainable Tourism on Regional Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 January 2025 | Viewed by 10619

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Dr. Ana Brochado

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Departamento de Marketing, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, DINÂMIA'CET-Iscte, Lisbon, Portugal
Interests: tourism economics; tourism management; hospitality and tourism marketing; marketing research
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Dear Colleagues,

Recent events worldwide have highlighted sustainable tourism’s impact on regional development. Sustainable tourism simultaneously addresses different tourism stakeholders’ needs: visitors who demand a good quality of experience, entrepreneurs who seek to maximise business opportunities and residents who expect to improve their quality of life. Sustainable tourism endeavours to ensure that the entire industry is environmentally responsible, economically viable and socially equitable. Tourism’s long-term viability can only be assured by rethinking and realigning tourism strategies and regional development projects.

The papers submitted should provide the knowledge, concepts and skills needed to analyse and evaluate current situations, define future trends and help tourism businesses and destinations apply sustainable approaches. This Special Issue seeks to cultivate a greater awareness of rapidly changing and intensifying sustainability claims made by diverse tourism stakeholders. By adopting sustainable tourism practices, regions can create a more sustainable and resilient tourism industry that benefits both visitors and locals.

The issue also focuses on helping readers to understand strategies and theories associated with tourism service ethics, business sustainability and environmental responsibility. Ultimately, the main aim is to explore answers to real-life problems and challenges linked to sustainable tourism’s effects so that it can contribute more fully to regional development by promoting economic growth, environmental protection, social equity and cultural preservation.

Dr. Ana Brochado
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable tourism
  • tourism impacts
  • crisis management
  • smart tourism
  • environmental protection
  • cultural preservation
  • social equity

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A Study on the Coupling Coordination of Urban Resilience and the Tourism Economy in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region
by Ying Zhang and Yunyan Li
Sustainability 2024, 16(12), 4946; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16124946 - 9 Jun 2024
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The high-quality economic growth of tourism is intimately related to a city’s overall strength, and urban resilience is an important index to measure the comprehensive strength of a city. Therefore, determining how to enhance the construction of urban resilience, improve the quality of [...] Read more.
The high-quality economic growth of tourism is intimately related to a city’s overall strength, and urban resilience is an important index to measure the comprehensive strength of a city. Therefore, determining how to enhance the construction of urban resilience, improve the quality of tourism development, and promote the coupling coordination of these two systems has attracted academic attention in recent years. Based on the panel data of 13 cities in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region from 2010 to 2021, an entropy weight method, coupling coordination model, and obstacle degree model were used to analyze the coupling coordination degree, spatiotemporal evolution characteristics, and obstacle factors between urban resilience and the tourism economy. The results show the following: (1) Urban resilience and tourist economic development levels in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region show an overall upward trend, and both of them show obvious spatial differences. (2) The coupling coordination degree of urban resilience and the tourism economy shows a trend of first rising and then declining in the temporal dimension, while it shows a spatial differentiation pattern of “high in the middle and low in the surrounding area” in the spatial dimension. (3) The obstacle degree structure of the coupling coordination of urban resilience and the tourism economy in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region is relatively stable, with economic resilience as the leading obstacle in the urban resilience system and tourist economic development benefits as the leading obstacle in the tourism economy system. In the future, the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region needs to strengthen regional cooperation, enhance the driving role of central cities, continuously improve urban resilience, and promote the high-quality development of the tourism economy. Full article
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The Impact of the Integration of the Culture Industry and Tourism on Regional Green Development: Empirical Evidence from China
by Zhenyu Qi and Yuezhou You
Sustainability 2024, 16(8), 3161; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083161 - 10 Apr 2024
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The concept of “green development” has garnered increasing recognition and prominence in recent years, attracting the attention of various countries and regions. How to achieve green development has become a pressing issue for the government. The integration of the culture industry and tourism [...] Read more.
The concept of “green development” has garnered increasing recognition and prominence in recent years, attracting the attention of various countries and regions. How to achieve green development has become a pressing issue for the government. The integration of the culture industry and tourism has had a profound impact on regional green development. This paper employs the entropy method to assess the level of regional green development, and it employs the coupling coordination model to evaluate the degree of integration of the culture industry and tourism across 30 provincial administrative regions in China from 2011 to 2021. Additionally, an econometric model is constructed to empirically examine the impact of the integration of the culture industry and tourism on regional green development, as well as its underlying mechanism. The findings of this study indicate the following: (1) The integration of the culture industry and tourism significantly enhances regional green development. (2) With the improvement in the regional green development level, the integration of the culture industry and tourism is playing a gradually stronger role in promoting regional green development. (3) Further analysis of the mechanism reveals that the integration of the culture industry and tourism enhances regional green development by facilitating the upgrading of the tourism industrial structure. (4) Environmental regulation policies reinforce the role of the integration of the culture industry and tourism in promoting regional green development. These research findings contribute to enhancing our understanding of the impact of the integration of the culture industry and tourism on regional green development, providing empirical evidence and policy recommendations for the government to facilitate the integration of the culture industry and tourism and further promote green development. Full article
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How Are Rural Homestays Achieving Sustainable Development in the Post-COVID-19 Period: Value Co-Creation by Operators, Tourists, and Government
by Yue Li, Liwen Xia, Li Wang, Mengyuan Qiu and Sulistyo Utomo
Sustainability 2024, 16(3), 1088; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16031088 - 26 Jan 2024
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The mental fatigue of rural homestay operators is of great significance to their performance as well as the sustainability of the rural tourism industry. Mental fatigue is a state of mind caused by consistently demanding cognitive activities. The mental health of rural homestay [...] Read more.
The mental fatigue of rural homestay operators is of great significance to their performance as well as the sustainability of the rural tourism industry. Mental fatigue is a state of mind caused by consistently demanding cognitive activities. The mental health of rural homestay operators has been severely hit during the COVID-19, and they are in urgent need of finding a path to recovery. Based on value co-creation theory, this paper explores how rural homestay operators’ mental fatigue affects their performance under the moderating effects of government support and tourists’ participation. We conducted a questionnaire survey in the 19 rural tourist destinations of Nanjing, China, and collected a total of 201 questionnaires from the homestay operators. The results reveal that the operators’ mental fatigue has a negative effect on the performance of rural homestays. What’s more, tourists’ participation could moderate the relationship between operators’ mental fatigue and their performance. Although the moderating effects of government support are not significant, they can influence operators’ performance directly and indirectly. Through the value co-creation of operators, tourists, and government with the aim of improving the performance value of the rural homestay co-creation process, the operators’ mental fatigue could be alleviated and their performance restored. These findings can help us explore the recovery mechanism of rural homestays and promote the sustainable development of rural tourism in the post-COVID-19 period. Full article
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Resilience and Sustainable Urban Tourism: Understanding Local Communities’ Perceptions after a Crisis
by Ana Brochado, Paula Rodrigues, Ana Sousa, Ana Pinto Borges, Mónica Veloso and Mónica Gómez-Suárez
Sustainability 2023, 15(18), 13298; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151813298 - 5 Sep 2023
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This study sought to examine the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on local communities whose residents are directly or indirectly affected by city tourism. Qualitative research was conducted via in-depth interviews and Leximancer software analysis to explore locals’ perceptions in two highly tourism-dependent southern [...] Read more.
This study sought to examine the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on local communities whose residents are directly or indirectly affected by city tourism. Qualitative research was conducted via in-depth interviews and Leximancer software analysis to explore locals’ perceptions in two highly tourism-dependent southern European cities. While the crisis has had predominantly negative impacts on tourism, the pandemic’s positive effects could contribute to cities’ greater resilience and more sustainable tourism models. The results highlight the variables that residents perceive as having the most influence on city tourism, as well as providing insights into locals’ expectations for the future. Full article
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The Spatial and Temporal Evolution and Influencing Factors of the Coupling and Coordinated Development of Basic Public Services, Urbanization, and Tourism in China
by Zhongwu Zhang, Jian Gong, Huiqiang Ma and Jinyuan Zhang
Sustainability 2023, 15(15), 11753; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511753 - 30 Jul 2023
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Promoting the coordinated development of basic public services, urbanization, and tourism is crucial to the high-quality development of regional economies. Taking China’s provinces as the research unit, an evaluation system was constructed, and the spatial and temporal evolution and influencing factors of the [...] Read more.
Promoting the coordinated development of basic public services, urbanization, and tourism is crucial to the high-quality development of regional economies. Taking China’s provinces as the research unit, an evaluation system was constructed, and the spatial and temporal evolution and influencing factors of the coordinated development of the three systems from 2010 to 2020 were measured using the coupling coordination model and geographical detector. The results demonstrate that: (1) From 2010 to 2020, there was a rising trend in basic public services, a declining trend and fluctuating stability in urbanization, and an inverted ‘U’ change in tourism; (2) the degree of coupling coordination was in a mild coordination state and showed an upward trend, with spatial distribution being high in the east and low in the west; (3) the degree of coupling coordination was spatially concentrated. The core hot-spot area was mainly in the southeast coastal area, and the core cold-spot area was mainly in the northwest inland area, showing a spatial distribution pattern of hot in the east and cold in the west; (4) the main influencing factors in the spatial difference in coupled coordinated development were per capita GDP, road network density, per capita disposable income of residents, urban unit employees, total import and export of goods, per capita fiscal expenditure, and number of tourists; (5) endogenous power (economic pulling power, infrastructure support power, industrial driving force, population agglomeration power) and exogenous power (government regulation power, market promotion power, social security power) together promote coupling coordinated development. Full article
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