Responsible Tourism: Using tourism for sustainable development 2nd edition is about the globally vital necessity of realising sustainable tourism. It is a hugely important challenge to those who organise and sell travel and tourism, and those who consume it.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Part 1: Why Responsible Tourism?
• Preface
• 1 What is Responsible Tourism?
• Tourism
• Sustainable Development: an oxymoron?
• Sustainable Tourism is not the same as Responsible Tourism
• The tragedy of the commons
• Responsibility: What's in a word?
• Krippendorf's legacy
• The development of Responsible Tourism
• Exercise responsibility, focus on outcomes and impacts
• The myths about Responsible Tourism
• 2 The Business of Responsible Tourism
• Facing up to responsibility
• Cultures of consumption
• The demand for experience and authenticity
• What of Corporate Social Responsibility?
• The business cases
• Opportunities and pitfalls
• 3 Responsible Tourism in Destinations
• Destinations
• What is the purpose of tourism?
• National government perspectives
• Local governance
• Responsible destination marketing
• Sustainability and resilience
• Part II: Responsible Tourism in Practice
• Preface
• 4 Social Responsibility
• Defining social responsibility
• Heritage and authenticity
• Host/guest encounters
• Hedonistic tourism
• Philanthropy and volunteering
• Child protection
• 5 Economic Responsibility
• Oversupply
• All-inclusives
• Community-based tourism
• Poverty reduction through tourism
• Slum tourism, shared value and the SDGs
• Only connect
• 6 Environmental Responsibility
• Living in a finite world
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Other environmental issues
• Greening businesses
• Conservation and ecotourism
• Sustainable tourism certification
• Animal welfare
• Responsible aviation
• Please check
• 7 What is to be done?
• The ethic of responsibility
• A Responsible Tourism movement?
• What we can do
• The next 10 years