Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals

Name: Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Tourism and Sustainable Development GoalsResearch on Sustainable Tourism Geographies\nAuthor(s): Jarkko Saarinen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367341664, 978-0367341664\nSynopsis\nThis comprehensive volume comprises some of the best scholarship on sustainable tourism in recent years, demonstrating the rich body of past research that provides a fertile and critical ground for studies on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by tourism geographers and other social scientists in the future.\n\nSince the turn of the 1990s many international development and policy-making organisations have perceived the tourism industry, with its local and regional connections, as a high-potential tool for putting sustainable development into practice. The capacity of tourism to work for sustainable development was highlighted in relation to the United Nations SDGs, which were adopted in 2015. The SDGs define the agenda for glob.