1st Edition

Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda

Edited By David Leslie Copyright 2009
268 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The tourism industry has increasingly recognized and responded to growing environmental concerns. In recent years, there has been an emergence of a variety of categories of tourism considered more environmentally friendly: green, eco-tourism, and sustainable tourism. Much of the literature that has addressed these developments has been orientated to the destination locale or specific to a... Read more

Introduction  1. Global Environmental Change and Tourism Enterprise  C. Michael Hall and Stefan Gössling  2. Asian Tourism - Green and Responsible?  Anita Pleumarom  3. Large-Scale Links between Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development  Ralf Buckley  4. Sustainable Tourism Development in the United States of America: An Intricate Balance from Policy to Practice  Kelly S. Bricker  5. Argentina and its Approach to Environmental Quality in Tourism - From Hotels to Destinations  Albina L. Lara  6. Strata Titled Tourist Development in Australia - Calling in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice?  Jan Warnken and Chris Guilding  7. Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development in Australia  Ralf Buckley  8. Environmental Performance of Tourism Enterprise in Ghana - A Case Study of Hotels in the Greater Accra Region (GAR)  Ishmael Mensah  9. Owner/Manager Perspectives on Environmental Management in Micro and Small Tourism Enterprises in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand  Sophie Rainford and Craig Wight  10. Southern Africa, Policy Initiatives and Environmental Performance  Anna Spenceley  11. Turkey’s Tourism Policy and Environmental Performance of Tourism Enterprises  Nazmiye Erdogan  12. Environmental Performance and Tourism Enterprises in the U.K.: Progress towards Sustainability?  David Leslie.  Conclusion.

Biography

David Leslie is Reader in Tourism at Glasgow Caledonian University. He was responsible for the introduction of the tourism programmes at the University in 1993 and for their subsequent development.