Advances and challenges in sustainable tourism toward a green economy

作者：Pan Shu Yuan^*; Gao Mengyao; Kim Hyunook; Shah Kinjal J; Pei Si Lu; Chiang Pen Chi^*

来源：Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 635: 452-469.

DOI：10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.134

• Renewable energy
• Green building
• Sustainable transport
• Green infrastructure
• Smart technology
• Water-energy-food nexus

This paper provides an overview of the interrelationships between tourism and sustainability from a cross disciplinary perspective. The current challenges and barriers in the tourism sustainability, such as high energy use, extensive water consumption and habitat destruction, are first reviewed. Then the key cross-disciplinary elements in sustainable tourism, including green energy, green transportation, green buildings, green infrastructure, green agriculture and smart technologies, are discussed. To overcome the challenges and barriers, a few implementation strategies on achieving sustainable tourism from the aspects of policy/regulation, institution, finance, technology and culture are proposed, along with the framework and details of a key performance indicator system. Finally, prospects of the potential for tourism to contribute to the transformative changes, e.g., a green economy system, are illustrated. This paper shine a light on issues of importance within sustainable tourism and encourage researchers from different disciplines in investigating the inter-relationships among community/culture, environment/ecology, and energy/water/food more broadly.

• 出版日期2018-9-1