What is sustainable tourism?

The essence of sustainable tourism is to continuously maintain environmental resources and cultural integrity, and to give residents in tourist areas fair development opportunities. Specifically, it is to enhance people's understanding of the environmental and economic effects of tourism and strengthen their awareness of ecological and environmental protection.

Promote the fair development of the tourism industry; improve the quality of life of residents in tourism reception areas; provide tourists with high-quality tourism life quality, and protect the ecological environment on which future social tourism resources or industrial development depend, etc. .

Sustainable tourism requires people to engage in tourism economic development activities with a long-term perspective and question the necessity of continuous economic growth. At the same time, it requires ensuring that the development of tourism activities will not exceed the tourist reception area and has the conditions to attract tourists in the future. and the ability to receive tourist visits.

Extended information

The concept of sustainability first attracted public attention in March 1980 when a publication entitled "World Conservation Strategy" was published. The call for "sustainable development" was put forward in the 1987 annual report "Our Common Future" of the World Commission on Environment and Development (wCED).

The report clearly states that sustainable development is development that “meets the needs of the present without posing a threat to the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The birth and development of sustainable development theory. It marks a fundamental change in human understanding of the relationship between environmental carrying capacity and priority development.

The development of sustainable tourism not only requires the unremitting efforts of tourism-related practitioners, but also requires the support of tourists. The China Sustainable Tourism Association was established with a simple and beautiful starting point. It has just been established and there is still a long way to go. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." We start from today, from now on.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Sustainable Tourism