Browsing by Subject "sustainable tourism"

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    Assessing the Impacts of Sustainable Tourism Programming in Small Communities
    (University of Minnesota, 2016) Teng, Somongkol; Chazdon, Scott
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    Ecotourism Assessment Alignment and Coordination Tool
    (2014) Butler, Megan; Elizabeth, Gering; Moua, Chou; Werden, Kristina
    Tourism can stimulate economies, promote cultural preservation, and incentivize environmental conservation. The tourism assessment and planning process is a tool for facilitating tourism development at the community level by helping entrepreneurs to: • Assess the products and services they currently offer • Align their current tourism products with best practices for improving their business’ sustainability. • Coordinate efforts to harness the full benefits of sustainable nature-based tourism or ecotourism. Extension educators can use this tool to educate, coordinate and encourage tourism entrepreneurs to adopt practices that maximize the cultural, social, economic, and environmental benefits of local tourism by minimizing potential negative impacts.
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    The Ideal Tourist: Power, Identity, and Environmental Privilege in Tourism Marketing
    (2021-10) Hamilton, Joy
    Many states in the U.S. are competing to attract wealthy travelers through magazines, commercials, and elaborate branding campaigns. To keep pace, governments increasingly employ corporate advertising methods that target ideal consumers. Using Colorado as a case study, “Ideal Tourist: Power, Identity, and Environmental Privilege in Tourism Marketing,” uncovers the content and circulation of tourism media and the public-private partnerships that drive taxpayer-supported tourism promotion and research. Although tourism offices view their work as apolitical, this project reveals that tourism media reinforce other systems of inclusion and exclusion and thus exercise political power in assigning worthiness to identity groups in relation to who can travel where and under what circumstances.