Handbook for Sustainable Tourism Practitioners: The Essential Toolbox

This Handbook provides practical guidance for investigating practical challenges in sustainable tourism, with contributions from over 50 international practitioners. It covers environmental, socio-cultural, and economic assessments, feasibility studies, business plans, visitor management, and overcrowding, and offers how-to tools and step-by-step guidance. It is essential reading for practitioners and scholars in the field.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 552 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

This comprehensive Handbook brings together the invaluable expertise of over 50 international practitioners in sustainable tourism, offering practical guidance and a rational toolkit for investigating practical challenges within limited timeframes and resources. Through robust research design principles, it provides a practical and actionable framework for conducting feasibility studies and business plans, while accounting for environmental, socio-cultural, and economic considerations. Expert contributors illustrate how to undertake comprehensive assessments that establish the viability of new tourism ventures and evaluate their long-term impact. Chapters cover essential topics such as feasibility studies, business plans, visitor management, and overcrowding, providing step-by-step guidance and practical tools for practitioners. By blending academic insights with extensive professional experience, this Handbook outlines the best practices for a wide range of tasks in sustainable tourism planning, development, and operation.

Incorporating concrete solutions from diverse contexts, this Handbook is a vital resource for practitioners of sustainable tourism and agencies commissioning sustainable tourism assignments. It offers innovative methods and up-to-date guidance to those seeking innovative approaches and practical methodologies in creating sustainable tourism experiences. Furthermore, it will be of interest to tourism scholars, particularly those exploring practical methodologies for developing sustainable tourism offerings.

Dimension: 244 x 169 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781035308156