Sustainability Indicators for Managing Community Tourism

Choi, Hwansuk Chris; Turk, Ercan Sirakaya

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9861-0_7

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“…The role of the Blue Flag programme is particularly relevant as local tourism stakeholders often lack of a common understanding of the sustainable tourism development concept, leading to confusion in its implementation (e.g. Choi & Sirakaya, 2006). The support of tourism stakeholders is essential for the development and long-term sustainability of tourism (Dabphet, Scott & Ruhanen, 2012).…”

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The signalling effect of eco-labels in modern coastal tourism

Cerqua

2016

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Abstract:As the demand for environmentally sustainable tourism grows, ecolabels are becoming increasingly popular as a signal of environmental quality. However, the existence of a causal link between awarding a seaside eco-label and the increase in tourism flows is still under discussion in the literature. In this article, we gauge the signalling impact of a specific eco-label, the Blue Flag award, using detailed data on tourism flows to seaside Italian destinations during the period 2008-2012. We adopt a recent econometric modelling strategy -the synthetic control method -in shaping estimation results and testing the sensitivity and robustness of our results. We find that being awarded the Blue Flag increases the flow of domestic tourists for up to three seasons after assignment. However, we find no effect for the flow of international tourists. Investigating the mechanisms driving the results, we find that the award of a Blue Flag only positively affects the flow of domestic tourists when it is used as a driver of organisation, coordination and integrated management of the tourism supply.

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The signalling effect of eco-labels in modern coastal tourism

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2016

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…Searcy et al (2007) Present a system of sustainable development indicators for the transmission system for a Canadian electric utility. Choi and Sirakaya (2006) Develop indicators to measure community tourism development within a sustainable framework. In order to develop such objective indicators, they employ a modifi ed Delphi technique.…”

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“…Establishing new employment opportunities Halme et al (2006), Keeble et al (2003), Seuring et al (2003), Welford et al (1998), Choi and Sirakaya (2006) In the fi rst and second steps of the guideline, the indicator pools and selection criterion sets are established using the existing literature. In the third step, an analytic hierarchy process (AHP)/weighted additive model (WAM)-based table is developed.…”

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“…In general, researchers use cutoff points to select the most appropriate indicators (Choi and Sirakaya, 2006). In this paper, the following cutoff point was used: take the averages of the industry averages for each aspect and select the indicators with the normalized ratings that are greater than or equal to the averages of the industry averages.…”

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Sustainability in the Turkish retailing industry

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Sustainable Development

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Retailing is a diverse and dynamic industry offering a wide range of goods and services to consumers.There is also an increasing recognition that this corporate retail power is the driving force for the whole of the supply chain. Due to these facts, it is argued that retailing companies have a huge potential to impact on sustainability performance of national economies. In order to materialize this potential, performance in sustainability should be assessed, and evaluating sustainability performance of an industry requires developing a system of performance evaluation framework. In the context of sustainable development, selecting proper sustainability indicators are one of the most crucial steps to fulfi ll performance evaluations. Since there has been no attempt to develop proper sustainability indicators in retailing industry, this paper aims to select appropriate indicators for future evaluation of industrial sustainability performance for grocery retailing in terms of three sustainability aspects: social, environmental and economic. To this end, (1) a comprehensive analysis of the existing literature was done, (2) and Analytic Hierarchy Process/ Weighted Additive model-based table was developed to rank the indicators for each aspect, (3) the input for the tables was obtained from rapidly growing grocery retailing industry in Turkey by conducting surveys, and (4) using the average values of the tables, sustainability indicators for each aspect were ranked and the most appropriate ones were selected.

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“…In this context, ''active involvement'' implies that local citizens will participate in the process of opportunity identification and evaluation (Sautter & Leisen, 1999), the design of an overarching policy and strategy (Bramwell & Sharman, 1999), the operational monitoring of visitor industry activities (Hardy & Beeton, 2001), and the mitigation of any negative outcomes that arise (Choi & Sirakaya, 2006). Indeed, there are a significant number of instances in which this process has been at least superficially undertaken, and a catalogue of common benefits and costs has emerged as a result (Zhang, Inbakaran, & Jackson, 2006).…”

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