Journal
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 484-492Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.08.001
Keywords
Sustainable tourism; Coastal destinations; Synthetic indicators
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- Andalusian Regional Government
- Spanish Ministry of Educacion y Ciencia
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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. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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