Sustainability performance assessment focusing on coral reef protection by the tourism industry in the Coral Triangle region
| Autor: | Vânia R. Coelho, Yu-Ti Huang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category business.industry Ecology Strategy and Management Coral 05 social sciences Environmental resource management Transportation Coral reef 010501 environmental sciences Development Coral reef organizations 01 natural sciences Coral Triangle Ecotourism Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management 0502 economics and business Sustainability Coral reef protection business 050212 sport leisure & tourism Tourism 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Tourism Management. 59:510-527 |
| ISSN: | 0261-5177 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tourman.2016.09.008 |
| Popis: | Coral reef based tourism in the Coral Triangle region is responsible for economic benefits but also for negative social and environmental impacts, thus an approach to evaluate this industry's sustainability performance would be valuable. We selected 10 key indicators, out of 681, that were directly relevant to the impacts of tourist activities on coral reefs in economic, social, environmental, and wildlife aspects of sustainability. Efficiency, inefficiency and overall models were developed to measure relative sustainability performance focusing on coral reef protection by the tourism industry for all six countries in the Coral Triangle, from 2008 to 2012. Our results showed that Indonesia had the best relative performance among countries in the region, followed in descending order by; Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Philippines, Timor-Leste, and Solomon Islands. Future plans to achieve higher performance by the tourism industry in each country can be made if a comprehensive sensitivity analysis is carried out. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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