The assessment of sustainable tourism: Application to Spanish coastal destinations |
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Authors: | Francisco Javier Blancas Mercedes González Macarena Lozano-Oyola Fátima Pérez |
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Institution: | 1. Economics, Cuantitative Methods & Economic History Department, Pablo de Olavide University, Ctra. Utrera, km 1, 41013 Seville, Spain;2. Department of Applied Economics (Mathematics), University of Malaga, Campus El Ejido, 29071 Malaga, Spain |
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Abstract: | This paper introduces an indicator system to evaluate sustainability in established coastal tourism destinations, applying the recommendations and definitions of the World Tourism Organization (WTO). We also develop a new synthetic indicator to simplify the measurement of sustainability and facilitate the comparative analysis of destination ranking. This measurement was obtained by applying a procedure to reduce the number of subjective decisions made by the analyst, using a novel two-stage aggregation methodology based on principal component analysis and on the distance to a reference point. The synthetic indicator obtained was applied to Spanish coastal destinations, and the results serve as a guideline for tourism planning. The conclusions of this research can be extrapolated to the study of other tourism destinations. |
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