Strippoli Rossana, Gallucci Teodoro, Ingrao Carlo
Department of Economics, Management and Business Law, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Largo Abbazia Santa Scolastica 53, Bari, Italy.
Heliyon. 2024 Aug 24;10(17):e36801. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e36801. eCollection 2024 Sep 15.
Circular Economy (CE) is considered a possible solution to mitigate the environmental externalities of the tourism industry, with a view to more sustainable tourism by reducing environmental, social, and economic burdens in an integrated holistic approach. Moreover, the role of CE in tourism is highlighted by the possibility of achieving all sustainable development goals (SDGs) directly and indirectly using the links that connect SDG 12 with the others. From this point of view, this literature review was aimed at discussing the key strategies of CE applied to the tourism industry, focussing on the widespread problems of single-use plastic, excess food, and water consumption. The environmental and socio-economic benefits deriving from the application of the CE principles to waste management will be shown, by contributing to meeting all the SDGs. Many strategies have been proposed to make tourism circular and sustainable, and research revealed that those are mainly based on the concepts of reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover. This article confirmed the importance of - and the need for - research on CE in the tourism sector; further, by contributing to expanding research in this content area, it can stimulate the development and application of solutions that make the industry more efficient and resilient. This study was also conceived to raise the awareness of tourism stakeholders on the importance of CE to mitigate the negative externalities of the sector.
循环经济（CE）被认为是减轻旅游业环境外部性的一种可能解决方案，旨在通过综合整体方法减少环境、社会和经济负担，实现更可持续的旅游业。此外，通过利用将可持续发展目标12与其他目标联系起来的纽带直接或间接实现所有可持续发展目标的可能性，凸显了循环经济在旅游业中的作用。从这一角度来看，本文献综述旨在讨论应用于旅游业的循环经济的关键策略，重点关注一次性塑料、食物过剩和水资源消耗等普遍问题。通过有助于实现所有可持续发展目标，将展示将循环经济原则应用于废物管理所带来的环境和社会经济效益。已经提出了许多使旅游业循环化和可持续化的策略，研究表明这些策略主要基于减少、再利用、回收和恢复的概念。本文证实了旅游业中循环经济研究的重要性和必要性；此外，通过有助于扩大这一内容领域的研究，它可以刺激开发和应用使该行业更高效、更具韧性的解决方案。本研究的构思还在于提高旅游业利益相关者对循环经济减轻该行业负面外部性重要性的认识。
