SMHM 5532 - Context and Challenges of Applied Sustainable Tourism Development

3 hours

Explores the environment’s dilutive capacity and its importance to sustainable tourism. Examines factors critical to the sustainable tourism industry such as concentration of visitors, rising affluence, technological change, and increased expectations. Social responsibility, cultural assessment, and community participation principles for applied sustainable tourism development are considered in case studies and field excursions. Intervention strategies for sustainable tourism development are presented as a compelling case for an effective private–public partnership for development of sustainable tourism.

Prerequisite(s): None

Taught at CATIE in Costa Rica.