Sustainable Tourism Concepts

Sustainable Tourism

• Sustainable tourism balances visitor numbers with environmental capacity, maintaining culture, history, and heritage.
• Ensures environmental, economic, and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development are balanced for sustainability.
• Optimizes environmental resources, preserving ecological processes, and biodiversity.
• Respects local culture, heritage, and values, contributing to inter-cultural tolerance.
• Provides long-term economic benefits to all stakeholders, including employment and poverty alleviation.
• Requires informed participation of all stakeholders and strong political leadership.
• Aims for high tourist satisfaction and promotes sustainable tourism practices among tourists.
• Carrying capacity needs careful management to avoid negative impacts on destinations.
• Sustainable development goals (SDGs) are core principles.
• UNWTO promotes responsible, sustainable, and accessible tourism, supporting inclusive development & environmental sustainability.
• Global Code of Ethics for Tourism aims to maximize benefits while minimizing negative impacts.

Characteristics of Sustainable Tourism

• Minimizes negative economic, environmental, and social impacts.
• Generates local economic benefits and improves host community well-being.
• Includes local people in decision-making processes.
• Conserves natural and cultural heritage.
• Provides tourists with meaningful cultural experiences.
• Promotes inclusivity, respect, and understanding between tourists and locals.

Global Code of Ethics for Tourism

• A set of principles to guide key players in tourism development, maximizing benefits while minimizing negative impacts.
• Addresses governments, travel industry, communities, and tourists.
• Principles emphasize mutual understanding, respect, and tolerance between people and societies.
• Recognizes tourism's contributions to individual and collective fulfillment.
• Promotes sustainable development, protecting natural environments for future generations.
• Encourages respect for cultural heritage and the rights of local communities.
• Emphasizes the rights of workers in the tourism sector.

Explore the principles and practices of sustainable tourism through this quiz. Understand how to balance visitor numbers with environmental capacity while preserving local culture and contributing to economic development. Engage with the core principles of sustainable development goals and the role of stakeholders in achieving responsible tourism.