Assessing the environmental impact of tourism development

Green, Howard; Hunter, Colin; Moore, Bruno

doi:10.1016/0261-5177(90)90026-6

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“…TEIA is an effectively method to analysis the effect of tourism on ecological environments by mathematical statistical analysis methods form microscopic view, which construct assessment index system and select assessment model based on environmental background to monitoring the feedback mechanism for impact of tourism environmental. However, it's usually ignoring the effectiveness of monitoring and feedback mechanism [105,106]. EFT constructs the tourism ecological footprint according to various data of per capita consumption by bottom-up questionnaire and investigates statistics.…”

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An Entropy-Perspective Study on the Sustainable Development Potential of Tourism Destination Ecosystem in Dunhuang, China

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This paper analyzed the characteristic of the tourism destination ecosystem from perspective of entropy in Dunhuang City. Given these circumstances, an evaluation index system that considers the potential of sustainable development was formed based on dissipative structure and entropy change for the tourism destination ecosystem. The sustainable development potential evaluation model for tourism destination ecosystem was built up based on information entropy. Then, we analyzed each indicator impact for the sustainable development potential and proposed some measures for the tourism destination ecosystem. The conclusions include: (a) the requirements of Dunhuang tourism destination ecosystem on the natural ecosystem continuously grew between 2000 and 2012; (b) The sustainable development potential of the Dunhuang tourism destination ecosystem was on an oscillation upward trend during the study period, which is dependent on government attention, and pollution problems were improved.

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An Entropy-Perspective Study on the Sustainable Development Potential of Tourism Destination Ecosystem in Dunhuang, China

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“…Thus they have presented the results of the measurement of the impacts of tourism on the economy (Fletcher, 1989;Henderson, 1975;IUOTO, 1976;Liu and Var, 1983;McCann, 1983;Seward and Spinard, 1982;Witt, 1987), the environment (Agarwal and Biswas, 1989;Andriotis, 2003a;Green and Hunter, 1993;Holder, 1988;Jackson, 1984), society (Andriotis, 2004;Dogan, 1989;Haukeland, 1984;Mathieson and Wall, 1982;Milman and Pizam, 1988), and culture (Dogan, 1989;Greenwood, 1978;Richards, 1996;1999;Travis, 1982;UNESCO, 1976). These case studies may not situate themselves within any tourism development framework/theory but they will have theoretical underpinnings such as, for example, the economic concepts underlying economic impact studies.…”

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The pattern-matching approach and its application in tourism development

Andriotis¹,

Vaughan²

2009

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…The recommended size of panels varies in the literature, with Delbecq et al (1975) contending that 10 to 15 respondents can be sufficient, while other studies use much larger panel sizes, from 40 participants (Green & Hunter, 1992) to over 70 participants (Miller, 2001). The choice of panel size ultimately depends on the aims of the research, namely, whether the research seeks to gain a representative range of opinions or, as in the case of the Tapestry TFP evaluation, selected input from key stakeholders.…”

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“…At some stage (preferably after the initial compendium of responses is compiled), the items might be grouped into common themes in order to clarify the responses and remove redundancy -a procedure similar to content analysis (Krippendorf, 1980). The use of Delphi advisory panels in tourism research is quite common (Kaynak et al, 1994;Moeller & Shafer, 1987;Moutinho and Witt, 1995;Tideswell et al, 2001;Weber & Ladkin, 2003), and is particularly seen to be valuable when the views of key experts are to be canvassed (Green & Hunter, 1992). Miller (2001) employed the Delphi method to develop a set of indicators to measure sustainable development.…”

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