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Tourism can have major impacts on the environment, ecosystems, and economy but, favoring their openness, also on societies and culture. The positive or negative nature of these impacts, and thus the distinction between sustainable and unsustainable tourism, depends on how it is managed. It is thus not surprising that in the last 30 years sustainable tourism has emerged as the dominant paradigm in tourism development (Ruhanen et al., J Sustain Tourism 23(4):517–535, 2015). In the definition of the United Nations Word Tourism Organization (UNWTO), sustainable tourism is the form of tourism that “takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities.” This entails meeting the needs of present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing opportunities for the future, without altering cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity, and life support systems. Notably, this long-term conservation perspective reflects symbiotic relationships between ecotourism and natural resource conservation (Boley and Green, J Ecotourism 15(1):36–50, 2016) that stem from the needs of both tourists and host regions to increase the carrying capacity of the destination so as to limit the trade-off between its current and future attractiveness.
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Chirieleison, C., Rizzi, F. (2023). Sustainable Tourism. In: Idowu, S.O., Schmidpeter, R., Capaldi, N., Zu, L., Del Baldo, M., Abreu, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25984-5_135
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