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Sustainability Indicators for Managing Community Tourism

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The purpose of this study is to develop indicators to measure community tourism development within a sustainable framework. In order to develop such objective indicators, this study employed a modified Delphi technique . A panel of 38 academic researchers in tourism provided input into developing the indicators. After three rounds of discussion, the panel members reached consensus on the following set of 125 indicators: political (32), social (28), ecological (25), economic (24), technological (3), and cultural dimensions (13) for community tourism development (Table 7.1). This set of sustainable tourism indicators can serve as a starting point for devising a set of indicators at the local and regional level.

This is reprinted with permission from Elsevier and the authors from a prior article, Sustainability indicators for managing community tourism, Tourism Management 27(2006): 1274–1289. See the link at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/tourismmanagement

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Acknowledgments

We wish to express our sincere gratitude to the study panel members, but not limited to, Dr. Stephen L.J. Smith, Dr. Muzafar Uysal, Dr. Steve McCool, Dr. Ted Mannning, Dr. Grodon Dickinson, Dr. David Weaver, Dr. Ginger Smith, Dr. Colin Hunter, Dr. Bob Mckercher, Dr. Brian Goodall, Dr. David Timothy Duval, Dr. Erlet Cater, and Dr. Cooper. Our thanks are extended to the expert reviewers, especially Dr. Turgut Var, Dr. Tazim Jamal, Dr. Scott Shaffer, and Professor Hesus Hinojosa.

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Choi, H.C., Turk, E.S. (2011). Sustainability Indicators for Managing Community Tourism. In: Budruk, M., Phillips, R. (eds) Quality-of-Life Community Indicators for Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9861-0_7

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