Sustainability in Tourism Development and Planning

Sustainability in Tourism Development and Planning

The primary objective of this study has two folds. First, it aims to suggest a wider and integrated perspective of tourism development for sustainability and to seek a way to maintain sustainability of tourism destinations or businesses. The second objective is to suggest the development of necessary integrated indicators of sustainable tourism with respect to development factors and stages. It discusses the concept of sustainable tourism, sustainability, and sustainable development and reviews the main theories applied to studies on sustainability. It also reviews tourism research regarding sustainable tourism development and planning as applied to the main theories. Lastly, this paper discusses the limitations and suggest the future research to evolve a conceptual way to achieve the successful sustainable tourism.