TY - JOUR
T1 - Measuring responsibility
T2 - An appraisal of a Scottish National Park's sustainable tourism indicators
AU - Blackstock, Kirsty L.
AU - White, Vicki
AU - McCrum, Gillian
AU - Scott, Alister
AU - Hunter, Colin
PY - 2008/8/19
Y1 - 2008/8/19
N2 - Descriptions of the ambivalent role that tourism plays in sustaining fragile environments, communities and cultures are well rehearsed in the tourism literature. Tourism indicators are increasingly seen as a way to measure and monitor impacts (both positive and negative) in order to practice adaptive management. Responsible tourism focuses on the choices made by visitors and their hosts, emphasising changing behaviour in order to change tourism outcomes. Thus, responsible tourism provides a particular lens by which to consider how to improve the sustainability of tourism. This paper explores whether a draft sustainable tourism indicator set for one of Scotland's new National Parks measures responsible behaviour (by both tourists and the host communities) and responsible tourism practices. Therefore, the analysis focuses on issues of responsibility for what, by whom and whether the tourism strategy in question will result in responsible tourism. The paper reports our findings and reflects on how the lens of responsible tourism might provide a useful perspective from which to appraise tourism indicators in the future.
AB - Descriptions of the ambivalent role that tourism plays in sustaining fragile environments, communities and cultures are well rehearsed in the tourism literature. Tourism indicators are increasingly seen as a way to measure and monitor impacts (both positive and negative) in order to practice adaptive management. Responsible tourism focuses on the choices made by visitors and their hosts, emphasising changing behaviour in order to change tourism outcomes. Thus, responsible tourism provides a particular lens by which to consider how to improve the sustainability of tourism. This paper explores whether a draft sustainable tourism indicator set for one of Scotland's new National Parks measures responsible behaviour (by both tourists and the host communities) and responsible tourism practices. Therefore, the analysis focuses on issues of responsibility for what, by whom and whether the tourism strategy in question will result in responsible tourism. The paper reports our findings and reflects on how the lens of responsible tourism might provide a useful perspective from which to appraise tourism indicators in the future.
KW - Hosts and guests
KW - National park
KW - Responsible tourism
KW - Stakeholders
KW - Sustainable tourism indicators
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=49349114141&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09669580802154090
DO - 10.1080/09669580802154090
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:49349114141
SN - 0966-9582
VL - 16
SP - 276
EP - 297
JO - Journal of Sustainable Tourism
JF - Journal of Sustainable Tourism
IS - 3
ER -