“…After decades of aiming purely to increase both tourist arrivals and tourist spending, critiques highlighting the negative impacts (externalities will be used in the following) of rapid tourism growth have generated new ideas emphasizing community involvement, environmental conservation, and greater inclusion, with sustainable tourism becoming increasingly popular (Hawkins, 2007). The World Tourism Organization considers a tourism development model to be sustainable, if it is ecologically bearable, economically viable, and ethically and socially equitable (WTO, UNEP, UNESCO & EU, 1995).…”