Carrying capacity in the tourism industry: a case study of Hengistbury Head

Simón, Fernando José Garrigós; Narangajavana, Yeamduan; Marqués, Daniel Palacios

doi:10.1016/s0261-5177(03)00089-x

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“…However, sustainable tourism is a multifaceted concept encompassing social, economic, ecological, cultural, perceptual, psychological, ethical, physical and political aspects among others, "each having different implications" (Saarinen, 2006(Saarinen, , p. 1125. In addition, sustainability is related to several factors such as the intensity of development, the speed of tourism growth, the environmental framework, and the measurement of economic development in the different regions (Garrigós et al, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, the sustainability of tourism development in general, and in particular the economic sustainability of tourism growth, must be measured in order to be useful (Garrigós et al, 2004), and although the question and challenge is whether this is possible (Buckley, 1999), -authors such as Garrigós et al (2004) faced many problems in this area -, the measurement of the different influential factors is essential to improving planning and managerial processes, and increasing the sustainability of an area (Cooper et al, 1998). Measurement is particularly critical in the tourism industry, and especially when the growth and impacts of mass tourism are seen to be problematic for the environment and for the industry's future.…”

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The Economic Sustainability of Tourism Growth through Leakage Calculation

2015

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The development and growth of tourism depends on its sustainability over time and on its benefits for destinations as a whole. However, calculating sustainability is not an easy task. The aim of this article is to focus on the economic sustainability of tourism growth and, after an exhaustive review of literature, to propose a quantitative mathematical model to measure it by analyzing and calculating leakage in the hotel sector. Leakage analyzes the amount of revenue generated by tourists which does not stay in the destination. Through a sample of 204 interviews with managers, this study validates the model created and calculates leakage in a mass tourism destination (Valencian Region, Spain). Our paper opens new areas of research in sustainability literature and, as it provides orientations to outcomes for policy, it is of great value to tourism planners and governments in their tasks to implement appropriate tourism development policies.

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The Economic Sustainability of Tourism Growth through Leakage Calculation

2015

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“…Thus, the tourism will not lead to environmental degradation or tourist disdain of some area in a long term by focusing on its protection or its conservation. In other words, the environment will have an influence on tourism and vice versa [9]. The environment of some region is negatively influenced by the increase of tourism in most of times, whereas the tourism development depends on quality and characteristics of environments.…”

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Study on tourist carrying capacity of sustainable tourism---by taking Qingliang Mountain in the south-eastern china as an example

Jin

Liu

2017

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Abstract. This paper analyzed measurable problems of tourist carrying capacity and then studied the corresponding measures by adopting theories and methods of environment sciences. Tourist carrying capacity of Qingliang Mountain was studied by analyzing the system of tourism environment capacity. The results showed that the level of service was 9726, which was smaller than the ecological carrying capacity of 12894. The facilities and spatial capacity were identified as key factors to limit the tourist carrying capacity in Qingliang Mountain. Some advices and measures including newly built and rebuilt basic facilities, construction of management methods for slack and peak tourist season respectively, construction of new sight spot and touring path were discussed to improve the tourist carrying capacity of Qingliang Mountain and solve the problems of overloading of tourists in the peak season.

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“…TCC could comprehensively measure the carrying capacity of tourism destinations such as ecology, resources, psychological and space, which employed remote sensing (RS), field measurements, questionnaire and Delphi method, etc. However, it has a characteristic of randomness and subjectivity when assessing environmental carrying capacity [102][103][104]. 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.…”

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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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Carrying capacity in the tourism industry: a case study of Hengistbury Head

Cited by 136 publications

References 21 publications

The Economic Sustainability of Tourism Growth through Leakage Calculation

The Economic Sustainability of Tourism Growth through Leakage Calculation

Study on tourist carrying capacity of sustainable tourism---by taking Qingliang Mountain in the south-eastern china as an example

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

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