Sustainable Tourism

Only just finished speaking about definitions of Tourism…. and already here is another prefix: sustainability… ‘sustainable tourism’.

Don’t think for a moment about definitions you may well have heard / read….

• What do YOU think the term sustainable / sustainability means?
• What does it mean to YOU in your daily life or when you come to choose a holiday?
• What might it mean at a practical level to an airline, a tour-operator, a destination like Torremolinos, Alsace Tourism, a small gîte in the Sundgau or to the Minister of state with Tourism responsibility?
• What does it mean to ‘Joe Shmo’ / ‘Mr Average‘ when his/her thoughts turn towards holidays……

Well, all these things we will be considering,  along with others like:

• the emergence of the modern sustainability movement: why did it come out of the 1980s……?
• terminology or ‘terminological inexactitude’  ….  what to make of terms like the following – do they all mean the same thing:
  • green tourism
  • soft tourism
  • responsible tourism
  • eco tourism
  • alternative tourism
  • sustainable tourism
• the theory and practice and practicalities of implementing sustainable strategies
• certification schemes: their value and perception
• sustainable futures and predictions

Here is the Unit Specification: