Making Tourism More Sustainable - A Guide for Policy Makers
Massive growth is predicted for tourism in the forthcoming years, providing excellent opportunities for spreading prosperity but presenting considerable challenges and potential threats to the environment and local communities if not well managed. Jointly produced with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this new Guide is a basic reference book and provides a blueprint for governments to formulate and implement sustainable tourism policies. It builds on previous work of WTO and UNEP on the different aspects of sustainability. The Guide defines what sustainability means in tourism, what are the effective approaches for developing strategies and policies for more sustainable tourism, the tools that would make the policies work on the ground, and it presents selected case studies. The publication is aimed primarily at governments, at national or local level, while being also relevant to international development agencies, NGOs and the private sector to the extent that they are affected by, and can affect, tourism policies and their implementation. more »
