Sustainability Indicators for Tourism Destinations: A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach Using Systemic Indicator Systems

Difficulties and Challenges in Applying the European Tourism Indicators System (ETIS) for Sustainable Tourist Destinations: The Case of Braşov County in the Romanian Carpathians

“…Having the city of Bucharest as a main case study, the authors argue that "there is no panacea for sustainable urban tourism development (p. 12720). Schianetz and Kavanagh (2008) [11] propose a new methodology for assessing the sustainability of tourism destination using the so-called Systemic Indicators System (SIS) which was tested as case study on a holiday eco-village near Lamington National Park in Queensland, Australia. While the methodology is thought to have a high practical value since "does not rely on the availability of accurate quantitative data", the authors admitted that "further research is indicated to the applicability and effectiveness of the SIS methodology for the whole tourism destinations" (p. 624).…”

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

“…There are lots of indicators that play a more important role for tourism sustainable development. Depending on the principles of scientific city, comprehensiveness, dynamics, hierarchy, maneuverability and perceptiveness [137,138], using the references from Indicators of Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations: A Guidebook (WTO, 2004) [139], European Tourism Indicator System For Sustainable Destinations (EU, 2013) [140], ecological civilization city construction indicator system of Dunhuang city and related research results [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]141], the article establishes tourism destination ecosystem sustainable development analysis and indicators system evaluation according to three aspects. They are the structure, function and characteristic of tourism destination ecosystems; the entropy production and entropy flow in the process of system operation; and the ecological environment pollution and destruction during the tourism industry development within the system.…”

“…Moyle and McLennan noted that the frequency of occurrence of sustainability as a concept has slightly increased in strategies over the past decade. At the same time, there has been a shift in the conceptualisation of sustainability, with thinking evolving from nature-based, social and triple bottom line concepts toward a focus on climate change, responsibility, adaption and transformation [20]; (b) The indicators of ST [23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41], for example, McElroy constructed a "Composite Tourism Penetration Index" from per capita visitor spending, daily visitor densities per 1000 population and hotel rooms per square kilometer. They tested it on 20 small Caribbean islands and yielded three levels of increasing penetration [26].…”

“…Chris and Sirakaya employed a modified Delphi technique to constructed indicators from political, social, ecological, economic, technological and cultural dimensions for community tourism development (CTD) [25]. Schianetz and Kavanagh proposed the methodological framework for the selection and evaluation of sustainability indicators for tourism destinations, the systemic indicator system (SIS) this framework takes the interrelatedness of sociocultural, economic and environmental issues into account [33]. Reddy engaged in the identification, selection and evaluation of sustainability indicators for rapid assessment of tourism development in Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India (ANI).…”

“…The MICEM could quantify the level of tourism sustainable development, which employed AHP and Delphi method by the level of sustainable development and other potential targets. However, selection indicator and its weights usually by personal decision-making [33,39,[98][99][100][101]. 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.…”