Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development

International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda
Herausgeber: Leslie, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This indispensable contribution provides a comprehensive, state of the art perspective on progress towards the objectives of sustainable development within the tourism sector across the globe by focusing on the environmental performance and adoption of environmental management systems by tourism enterprises.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9780415851688
• ISBN-10: 0415851688
• Artikelnr.: 37087164

Autorenporträt

David Leslie is Reader in Tourism at Glasgow Caledonian University. He was responsible for the introduction of the tourism programmes at the University in 1993 and for their subsequent development.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Global Environmental Change and Tourism Enterprise 2. Asian
Tourism - Green and Responsible? 3. Large-Scale Links between Tourism
Enterprises and Sustainable Development 4. Sustainable Tourism Development
in the United States of America: An Intricate Balance from Policy to
Practice 5. Argentina and its Approach to Environmental Quality in Tourism
- From Hotels to Destinations 6. Strata Titled Tourist Development in
Australia - Calling in the Sorcerer's Apprentice? 7. Tourism Enterprises
and Sustainable Development in Australia 8. Environmental Performance of
Tourism Enterprise in Ghana - A Case Study of Hotels in the Greater Accra
Region (GAR) 9. Owner/Manager Perspectives on Environmental Management in
Micro and Small Tourism Enterprises in the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand 10.
Southern Africa, Policy Initiatives and Environmental Performance 11.
Turkey's Tourism Policy and Environmental Performance of Tourism
Enterprises 12. Environmental Performance and Tourism Enterprises in the
U.K.: Progress towards Sustainability? Conclusion