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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Tourism, Culture, and Heritage".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 7447

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Dr. Ender Demir

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Tourism Management, Faculty of Tourism, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul 34700, Turkey
Interests: corporate finance; cryptocurrencies; uncertainty; tourism economics; hospitality financial management
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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to contribute to the sustainability literature by exploring the economic effects of sustainable tourism development. Sustainable tourism development is related to the environmental, economic, and sociocultural aspects, and a proper balance should be developed between these three dimensions to guarantee its long-term sustainability. Sustainability in tourism plays an important role for tourism planning and development. Tourism research has extensively analyzed tourism sustainability, but there is still a need to understand the economics aspects and consequences of sustainable tourism. Especially in the pandemic period, institutions, companies, regulatory bodies, and international organizations have now turned their gaze toward sustainability, which can emerge as a powerful tool from this highly uncertain period.

The United Nations set the 2030 Agenda for achieving Sustainable Development Goals for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. Sustainable tourism can contribute to this aim. Therefore, from a practical point of view, this Special Issue can also develop new knowledge that can support economic decision making and policy development of regulatory bodies and governments for achieving a more sustainable tourism sector.

This Special Issue is devoted to understanding and analyzing new trends and advancements in the economic aspects of sustainable tourism development. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic attracted new challenges for all stakeholders of the tourism industry. Therefore, we welcome studies focusing on the role of the pandemic on sustainable tourism development and also future perspectives in the post-COVID-19 era. We look forward to receiving original (quantitative and/or qualitative) manuscripts on any topic related to the economic impacts of sustainable tourism development. Authors can analyze all segments of the tourism and hospitality field using micro and/or macro level data. In this framework, Special Issue topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Economic impacts of sustainable tourism development;
Determinants of sustainable tourism development;
Sustainable tourism development and corporate social responsibility;
Effect of uncertainty on sustainable tourism development;
Risk and sustainable tourism development;
Sustainable tourism as a tool for poverty reduction;
Sustainable tourism and economic growth;
The role of globalization;
Sustainable tourism development in emerging markets;
Impact of sustainable tourism on environment;
Overtourism;
Green tourism;
Circular economy and sustainable resource management;
Pandemics and sustainable tourism;
Smart tourism;
Effects of technology and innovation;
Green finance;
Investments;
Corporate governance and sustainability;
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability;
Climate change;
Pollution;
Energy consumption and tourism.

Dr. Ender Demir
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Keywords

sustainable tourism
sustainability
tourism
COVID-19
uncertainty
tourism policy
inequality
economic growth
economic impacts
investments
globalization
climate change
pollution
green consumption
tourism planning
tourism innovation
hospitality industry
digitalization
ecotourism
risks

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Intelligent Digital Platform for Community-Based Rural Tourism—A Novel Concept Development in Peru

by Gladys Maquera, Bruno B. F. da Costa, Óscar Mendoza, Raúl A. Salinas and Assed N. Haddad

Sustainability 2022, 14(13), 7907; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14137907 - 29 Jun 2022

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The COVID-19 pandemic has driven the rapid evolution and digitization of different tourism sectors through Industry 4.0. However, Community-based Rural Tourism (CRT) has not experienced the same technological advancement. Thus, considering tourism as a powerful socioeconomic driver, this research is based on the relevance of the CRT for the development of rural areas through job creation, preservation of historical-cultural and architectural heritage, and appreciation of the local market. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to present a concept development model of an intelligent digital platform (IDP), where tourism products and services are visualized, articulated, and integrated with the different actors of the CRT, offering a personalized tourist experience. The concept was developed based on Business Process Management and Business Model Canvas (BMC). Thus, through meetings and interviews, it was possible to extract essential information to obtain the necessary know-how for the development of the concept. It was concluded that the COVID-19 pandemic has established a new business scenario, intensifying and accelerating the use of digital tools and ICTs in several sectors, including tourism. However, the use of ICTs in CRT is still incipient. As Peru is a country where rural tourism has a strong tradition, but there are no specific platforms for CRT, which makes the broad dissemination of rural experiences difficult, a BMC template has been developed to integrate the expected objectives, and the application of the proposed framework serves as a guide for other platforms with different niches markets in the tourism sector. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Tourism Development and Economic Effects: Recent Advances and Challenges)

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Tourism Network Attention Variation of Chinese Cities under the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Xinshuo Hou

Sustainability 2022, 14(9), 5131; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14095131 - 24 Apr 2022

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At the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out globally and had a tremendous impact on tourism development in countries around the world. The rapid shift of tourism from “over-tourism” to “under-tourism”, threatening the future of the global economy and society, has generated considerable interest from academia and the policy community, but the impact of COVID-19 on tourism variation remains untested by empirical evidence. Based on the daily Baidu Index of 247 prefecture-level cities in China from 2018 to 2021, this study assessed the treatment effect of COVID-19 on tourism and analyzed its dynamic characteristics using the regression-discontinuity-design (RDD) method combined with tourism network attention (TNA) data. The results show that after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the level value of TNA dropped significantly by 2.12 (p < 0.10), and the difference value of TNA (TNA_diff) dropped significantly by 10.77 (p < 0.01), indicating that COVID-19 has a negative causal effect on tourism development, and its impact is more pronounced in major tourist source cities, with a coefficient of −14.91 (p < 0.01) corresponding to −4.57 (p < 0.01) for non-major tourist source cities when the dependent variable TNA_diff. The identification of dynamic effects further confirms that the negative impact of the pandemic on tourism network attention is fluctuating and persistent during the study period, with the two major “golden weeks” and peak season being the most severe. Compared to 2020, the TNA has generally shown an upward trend since 2021, indicating signs of a rebound in the vitality of resident tourism, which is conducive to the healthy development of the tourism market. Full article

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