TOUR09004 2024 Sustainable Tourism and Event Measuring and Monitoring

This module will develop a critical understanding of measuring and monitoring for sustainable tourism and events management. It will advance strategic understanding and capacity to develop and apply methodologies for sustainable tourism and event management metric calculation and evaluation. Through theoretical underpinning and practical implementation, monitoring and measurement systems will be applied within a destination development and management context.

This comprehensive Handbook offers a broad assessment of tourism impacts research. With critical perspectives on social and environmental impacts of the sector it addresses the often-clashing value systems in tourism that underpin both scholarly and policy agendas. Chapters offer reflections on critical issues, including climate change, environmental degradation and COVID-19, analysing their effects on tourism impacts. Top scholars in the field flesh out unique perspectives on tourism, highlighting its impact on communities, workers and Indigenous peoples, as well as the ongoing global and local sustainability issues associated with the prevailing growth-oriented rationale of the industry. Providing a state of the art, integrative approach to the field, the Handbook lays out a social impact assessment approach and draws attention to the relationships between tourism, human rights, development and the environment. Offering innovative insights on the future of the industry, the Handbook of Tourism Impacts is crucial reading for students and scholars of tourism, human geography and planning, as well as other social scientists working on tourism impacts. It also provides useful insights for practitioners and policymakers looking to address and limit the negative impacts of tourism.

Tourism today: Why is it a global phenomenon embracing all our lives? -- Tourism: Its origins, growth and future -- Demand: Why do people engage in tourism? -- Transporting the tourist, I: Surface transport -- Transporting the tourist, II: The aviation sector -- Accommodation and hospitality services -- Tour operating and travel retailing -- Visitor attractions and events -- The management of tourism -- The public sector and tourism -- Managing the visitor and their impacts -- The future of tourism: Post tourism?

This handbook explores and critically examines both positive and negative impacts of tourism development focusing on the past, present and future issues, challenges and trends from a multidisciplinary global perspective. Through a comparative approach involving international case studies, this book explores our understanding of tourism impacts and contributes to the theoretical development on relationships between tourism impacts and community support for tourism development. This handbook focuses on a variety of geographical locations, drawing from the knowledge and expertise of highly regarded academics from around the world. Specifically, it explores the adoption and implementation of various tourism development and impact management approaches in a wide range of global contexts, while identifying their trends, issues and challenges. It addresses strategies relating to innovation, sustainability and social responsibility, and critically reviews the economic, sociocultural, environmental, political and technological impacts of tourism. The text also identifies future trends and issues, as well as exploring the methods used to study tourism impacts. Conveying the latest thinking and research, this handbook will be a key reference for students, researchers and academics of tourism, as well as development studies, geography, cultural studies, sustainability and business, encouraging dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and areas of study.

This book provides students with a concise and practical guide that presents the key understandings of the tourist experience and provides strategic guidance on how to develop an impactful and memorable experience. Chapters follow the path of the tourist journey, firstly exploring consumer behaviour, the decision-making process and the tourist's need for escape, and providing insights into the strategic implications of consumer behaviour and the concept of immersion in tourism. Subsequent chapters look at the impact of experiences, trends in tourism experience such as wellness, sustainability, authenticity, and fantasy, and provide experience design models. The final chapter offers a unique ten-step approach to designing impactful and memorable tourist experiences. Highly practical and engaging, this book is packed full of case studies and examples, from forest bathing in Finland to truffle hunting in Italy, as well as tools and exercises to guide the design process. This offers students a full understanding of how the experience is lived from the tourist perspective, how tourism providers can manage that process and develop successful experimental marketing interventions. This is essential reading for all tourism students and future tourism managers.

Now in its Fourth Edition, this key text has been fully revised and updated and includes two new chapters on Evaluation and Impact of Events and The Future of the Events Industry. Packed with case studies, both in-text and online, it takes the reader through the whole process of events management.

Visitor attractions represent a complex sector of the tourism industry and are the catalytic focus for the development of tourism infrastructure and services. The third edition of this successful text investigates these issues further and provides more solutions and suggestions for the present and future.

Now in its third edition, Managing Visitor Attractions has been fully revised and updated to include new content on increased visitor numbers, new destinations and attractions, social media, overtourism, environmental awareness and the experience economy. The book includes case studies on topics such as overtourism at natural attraction sites, new attraction development in Egypt, dark tourism in Latin America, dementia-friendly attractions, and manging sporting venues as attractions. New chapters include the role of the visitor attraction manager, managing safety and risk, themed attractions and storytelling, and digital marketing, among many others.

"Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management is a unique text, which links these three crucial areas of tourism - impacts, planning and management. Tourism impacts are multi-faceted and therefore are difficult to plan for and manage. This title looks at all the key players involved - be they tourists, host communities or industry members - and considers a number of approaches and techniques for managing tourism impacts successfully. Now in its fourth edition, this bestselling text has been fully revised to include: New material on overtourism, dark tourism, child sex tourism in South East Asia, festival tourism, regional development, and artificial intelligence; Updated tourism data and statistics; New case studies on the economic impacts of tourism in France, the twenty places most reliant on tourism in 2018, Fâailte Ireland's survey of good environmental practice in the industry, corporate social responsibility, as well as the above topical issues in tourism; An updated companion website including PPTs, video and web links and a case study archive. The text is written in an accessible style and includes a plethora of features that engage and aid understanding. This accessible yet academically rigorous introduction to tourism impacts, planning and management is essential reading for all tourism students"--

Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (unwto.org)

STORY AU - Atlantic Technological University Sligo (itsligo.ie)

Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC): Criteria, Standards, Certifications (gstcouncil.org)

UNWTO | World Tourism Organization a UN Specialized Agency

The European Tourism Indicator System - Publications Office of the EU (europa.eu)

Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC): Criteria, Standards, Certifications (gstcouncil.org)

GSTC-Recognized Standards for Destinations | GSTC (gstcouncil.org)

Other resources will be made available on Moodle VLE (Virtual Learning Environment).