Summary: Tourism Context

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• 1 Sustainability

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• Why is sustainability used in a specific way nowadays?

  Because people define sustainabilty as the processes and actions against the bad things to our natural resources, to keep an ecological balance so that society’s quality of life doesn’t decrease.

• To what does sustainability principles refer?

   to the environmental, economic, and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development, and a suitable balance must be established between these three dimensions to guarantee its long-term sustainability.

• What is Tripple bottom line?

  tripple bottom line was developed witth the idea that businesses can be managed in a way that not only earns financial profits but which also improves people's lives and the planet.

• What's "sustainable development goals"?

  The Sustainable Development Goals are a collection of 17 global goals designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". 

• What's the paris agreement 2015?

  The Paris Agreement is a pact within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) between 197 countries that focuses widely on reducing greenhouse gases emissions, adapting to the impacts of climate change, and to provide financial assistance to developing countries affected by a changing climate.

• What are the main points of the Paris Agreement?

  it sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. > only iran and turkey didn't participate

• What is "visitor management"?

  Visitor management refers to tracking the usage of a public building or site. By gathering increasing amounts of information, a Visitor Management System can record the usage of the facilities by specific visitors and provide documentation of visitor’s whereabouts.

• What's the connection between "visitor management" and "tourism"?

  Visitor Management in Tourism Destinations provides insight into critical concepts such as the visitor experience, service quality, the uses of indicators and frameworks, and interpretation. It also addresses current issues including the social and political dimensions of visitor management, the implementation of monitoring, vandalism and augmented reality.

• Give the "perceptual" definition of carrying capacity

  Measure of the number of people that may be accommodated on a site before the visitor experience is damaged.

• Give the "economic" definition of carrying capacity

  Measure of the number of people that may be welcomed to a location before the economy of the area is adversely (badly) affected.