Humanistic Management and Sustainable Tourism: Human, Social and Environmental Challenges Giudici Ernestina
Tourism is a fast-growing and changing industry, which has become a driver of economic development in both developed and underdeveloped countries. While the tourism industry's potential for shared…
Specifikacia Humanistic Management and Sustainable Tourism: Human, Social and Environmental Challenges Giudici Ernestina
Tourism is a fast-growing and changing industry, which has become a driver of economic development in both developed and underdeveloped countries. While the tourism industry's potential for shared value creation and sustainable development is acknowledged, the concerns around the environmental and social pressures remain a challenge for businesses, organizations, and destinations. This is because sustainable tourism arguably conflicts with the predominant neoliberal structure of the economy and with the hierarchical, profit- and consumption-driven societies. The emphasis on competition, growth, and profitability may undermine economic viability itself by consuming unreproducible resources and by undermining the six essential elements--dignity, people, prosperity, social justice, planet, and partnership--that are conceptually linked to sustainable development. The crises recurrently