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Sustainability Perspectives: Theories and Practice for Greening Tourism

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 7990

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Sevil Acar

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Guest Editor
Department of Tourism Administration, Boğaziçi University, 34342 Istanbul, Turkey
Interests: sustainability of tourism; environmental sustainability; ecological footprint; climate change
Dr. Stella Kladou

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Co-Guest Editor
Department of Business Administration & Tourism, Hellenic Mediterranean University, 71410 Herakleion, Greece
Interests: place branding; cultural heritage tourism; sustainable development

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Butler (1993: 29) explains sustainable tourism as “tourism in a form which can maintain its viability in an area for an indefinite period of time”. More recently, sustainable tourism has been heralded as the best approach for leaving destinations intact for future generations. Sustainable tourism has become very important over the past few decades together with its three pillars (environmental, economic and sociocultural sustainability). Still, environmental degradation in every aspect of the economy and life seems to be rising each passing day. Destinations are going beyond their carrying capacity and losing what makes them special. The environmental destruction of destinations also causes problems for the locals, and most major tourist hotspots are full of unhappy locals, leading to protests and loss of the desire to be hospitable. The threat overtourism poses towards the sustainability of the environment (as well as of natural resources) is quite hard to ignore, and a lot of destinations are basically being forced to take action against it and prioritize destination management or even degrowth (Andriotis, 2018). Additionally, Hall (2009) argues that significant environmental concerns have big effects towards the community and their willingness to get involved in more sustainable tourism practices. Extant research recommends addressing environmental concerns because humans need to balance their activities and the effects of these activities on the environment (e.g., Papageorgiou and Brotherton, 1999; Zacarias et al., 2011; Gülşen et al., 2021). Fletcher et al. (2019) argue that a different way of tourism is definitely possible if proper efforts are made towards achieving this goal within environmental boundaries.

This Special Issue aims to provide a space for reflecting on the possibilities and experiences of greening the tourism industry. As such, the Special Issue will not only cover the elaborations of green tourism examples/experiences/cases, but also papers entailing alternative ways of greening the tourism industry and involved stakeholder practices. Topics to be dealt with include, but are not limited to, green tourism and destination management, ecological tourism, touristic ecological footprint, climate change and tourism, etc.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Sevil Acar
Dr. Stella Kladou
Guest Editors

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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.

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Keywords

  • green tourism
  • green destination management
  • ecological tourism
  • touristic ecological footprint
  • climate change and tourism

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Destination Management Organizations’ Roles in Sustainable Tourism in the Face of Climate Change: An Overview of Prince Edward Island
by Joe MacEachern, Brandon MacInnis, David MacLeod, Romy Munkres, Simrat Kaur Jaspal, Pelin Kinay and Xiuquan Wang
Sustainability 2024, 16(7), 3049; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16073049 - 6 Apr 2024
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Globally, destination management organizations (DMOs) are becoming increasingly known for their sustainable practices. Despite the importance of destination management organizations’ sustainability initiatives in the face of climate change, minimal research has been undertaken on the topic in Canada. DMOs on PEI can inform [...] Read more.
Globally, destination management organizations (DMOs) are becoming increasingly known for their sustainable practices. Despite the importance of destination management organizations’ sustainability initiatives in the face of climate change, minimal research has been undertaken on the topic in Canada. DMOs on PEI can inform tourists better if they know what other adaptive strategies are taken into consideration around Canada. Our work included host-community interviews and perceptions on DMOs’ roles in improving tourism in the face of climate change. The interviews concluded that tourism officials in Prince Edward Island are becoming more conscious of climate change, but more has to be done to slow down the effects of the phenomenon. This paper also identified challenges facing DMOs in the area of sustainable tourism in the context of climate change. One of the recommendations was that DMOs should have access to techniques for mitigation and adaptation in addition to incentives that are sensitive to local situations. They may successfully advocate for climate change in this way and inform visitors if they are staying in risky places because of the consequences of climate change. The information on the standard operating procedures that DMOs use was intended to be useful to travelers, DMOs, and enterprises involved in the tourism industry. Future implications should discover new approaches for sustainability projects and to achieve a better understanding of how to enhance processes within the tourism industry, and more research on DMOs’ sustainability practices in the face of climate change could help improve this field. Full article
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Promoting Green Tourism Synergies with Cultural and Creative Industries: A Case Study of Greece
by Eirini Papadaki
Sustainability 2024, 16(2), 633; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16020633 - 11 Jan 2024
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Green tourism is part of the global effort to create a more sustainable living environment, taking into account the needs of both the industry, the tourists and the local communities. CCIs are considered trustworthy ambassadors of authenticity and life values, and can therefore [...] Read more.
Green tourism is part of the global effort to create a more sustainable living environment, taking into account the needs of both the industry, the tourists and the local communities. CCIs are considered trustworthy ambassadors of authenticity and life values, and can therefore effectively promote and/or strengthen the ecological value. This paper focuses on the role that cultural and creative industries (CCIs) can play in the implementation of sustainable development, especially in regard to green tourism, focusing on their role as communicators of green messages. The methodological tools used for the collection, analysis and interpretation of data for this research include semiotic analysis in a number of CCIs’ products, coding their ecological messages; content analysis of the CCIs’ digital posts for a one-year period in order to examine the form, types and content of the communication; and a digital ethnography of the users’ comments in order to study the perception and interaction of the receivers of such messages, focusing on past, present and potential tourists. Through the case study of Greece—a well-known tourist destination with rich cultural resources—the author tries to answer to the following research questions: (a) Could green tourism be promoted as a life value through CCIs’ products and messages? (b) Are there any good and innovative practices for such promotion through the synergy of the tourism industry with CCIs that could be used as models for further cases? This paper concludes that CCIs can promote sustainability as a life value through role modeling, educational programs, and subconscious or more straightforward messages, using both their products and formal communication channels. The more successful way for Greek CCIs to promote green tourism is through synergies with official tourism promotion mechanisms. The research shows that in many cases, this linkage has been successful in a number of ways. Full article
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Projected Summer Tourism Potential of the Black Sea Region
by Mustafa Tufan Turp, Nazan An, Başak Bilgin, Gamze Şimşir, Bora Orgen and Mehmet Levent Kurnaz
Sustainability 2024, 16(1), 377; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16010377 - 31 Dec 2023
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The impacts of climate change and the extent of their consequences exhibit regional variability. The negative effects of climate change on the tourism industry require a comprehensive examination of the vulnerabilities of tourism–dependent countries. Considering that the tourism sector is an important source [...] Read more.
The impacts of climate change and the extent of their consequences exhibit regional variability. The negative effects of climate change on the tourism industry require a comprehensive examination of the vulnerabilities of tourism–dependent countries. Considering that the tourism sector is an important source of income for these countries, it is imperative to evaluate the potential consequences of climate change. Its effects may lead to changes in the location and popularity of tourist destinations and the timing of the tourism season. If popular coastal destinations cannot respond effectively to the impacts of climate change, alternative tourism destinations need to be explored to reduce financial losses. This study aims to assess the potential of the Black Sea coasts as an alternative tourism destination. The evaluation was conducted using the Holiday Climate Index (HCI), a prominent indicator for determining human comfort. The research showed that Türkiye’s Black Sea coast may have the necessary comfort level for beach tourism in the summer season and may be attractive for more tourists considering the positive relationship between arrival and overnight stay and tourist comfort. Full article
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Analyzing the EU ETS, Challenges and Opportunities for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Aviation Industry in Europe
by Berkay Afşar, Hasan Berk Bilgiç, Melih Emen, Sinan Zarifoğlu and Sevil Acar
Sustainability 2023, 15(24), 16874; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152416874 - 15 Dec 2023
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The aviation industry’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been on an unsteady rise for the past few decades. This paper aims to identify the determinants of increasing GHG emissions in Europe in a dynamic panel setting, paying specific attention to [...] Read more.
The aviation industry’s contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been on an unsteady rise for the past few decades. This paper aims to identify the determinants of increasing GHG emissions in Europe in a dynamic panel setting, paying specific attention to the role of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Unlike previous studies, this paper proposes business tourism spending and capital investment in the tourism and travel industry as explanatory factors together with GDP per capita and jet fuel consumption. Unexpectedly, the EU ETS coverage is found to have an increasing role for GHG emissions from international aviation in countries where the system is put into effect. The results suggest that a more targeted emissions reduction policy needs to be implemented in order to mitigate aviation emissions in the region. Full article
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Reviving Urban Greening in Post-Industrial Landscapes: The Case of Turin
by Evinc Dogan, Federico Cuomo and Luca Battisti
Sustainability 2023, 15(17), 12760; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151712760 - 23 Aug 2023
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This paper explores the strategies for reviving urban greening in post-industrial landscapes through nature-based solutions (NbSs). The case of Turin was selected to investigate peri-urban farming practices at the old FIAT premises in the Mirafiori Sud area. Starting in the 2010s, the City [...] Read more.
This paper explores the strategies for reviving urban greening in post-industrial landscapes through nature-based solutions (NbSs). The case of Turin was selected to investigate peri-urban farming practices at the old FIAT premises in the Mirafiori Sud area. Starting in the 2010s, the City of Turin launched new urban regeneration projects to transform degraded post-industrial landscapes into creative urban living labs (ULLs) for experimentation. The data were collected by reviewing the literature available from public sources, including project documents (deliverables, public reports, MOOC content, scientific articles, etc.). Interviews and focus groups with policymakers (municipality), volunteers (NGOs), and inhabitants were carried out to gather insights as primary sources. A qualitative thematic analysis was adopted to determine how NbS can be a force for enhancing multi-functionality in post-industrial areas by incorporating ULLs and green tourism as a co-creation model to connect with nature. The results showed that (1) Mirafiori Sud became a remarkable hub for co-creation projects to foster the transformation of brownfields into experimentation sites capable of hosting sustainable and inclusive solutions, (2) regenerative art practices in shared spaces play a crucial role in community engagement, (3) the support for urban agriculture initiatives could improve the ability of cities to provide alternative food (and cultural) networks. In sum, NbSs drive change in urban landscapes and promote green tourism via agricultural production. Full article
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