Department of Economics, Quantitative Methods and Economic History, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain.
Sci Total Environ. 2011 Dec 15;412-413:28-45. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.09.066. Epub 2011 Oct 26.
This paper proposes an indicators system to analyse the sustainability of tourist activity at rural destinations in countries with a consolidated tourism sector. The proposed system aims at providing tourist managers and policy-makers with information to better understand the transition to sustainability at specific destinations and to encourage them to carry out corresponding policy and management responses. To illustrate how indicators can be quantified, we create a practical guideline on how to use the statistical information available. Likewise, we suggest a method for obtaining sustainability indexes by aggregation that reduces the subjectivity associated with the composite indicator. This procedure is based on the combination of principal component analysis and distance to a reference point. Together with the definition of sustainable tourism indicators, we explain how to use these systems and sustainability indexes to fulfil three practical uses in tourism sector planning: the comparison and characterisation of destinations, the definition of benchmarking practices, and the quantification of sustainable tourism objectives. Each practical use is illustrated using the case of rural zones in a consolidated destination such as Andalusia.
本文提出了一个指标体系，以分析旅游活动在旅游部门成熟的国家的农村目的地的可持续性。该系统旨在为旅游管理人员和决策者提供信息，以更好地了解特定目的地向可持续性的转变，并鼓励他们采取相应的政策和管理措施。为了说明如何对指标进行量化，我们创建了一个实用指南，介绍如何利用现有的统计信息。同样，我们建议通过聚合来获得可持续性指数的方法，以减少与综合指标相关的主观性。该方法基于主成分分析和与参考点的距离的组合。本文在对可持续旅游指标进行定义的基础上，解释了如何利用这些系统和可持续性指数来实现旅游部门规划中的三个实际用途：目的地的比较和特征描述、基准实践的定义以及可持续旅游目标的量化。每个实际用途都使用安达卢西亚等成熟目的地的农村地区的案例进行了说明。
