Hi, Mark:

One of areas of concern among researchers of sustainable and responsible tourism agenda is the---sustainable tourism paradigm's resistance to incorporating gender equality and gender analysis as core principles! They (Ferguson, & Alarcón, 2015). argue that there is substantive work to be done for gender to be integrated into the theory and practice of sustainable tourism!

Moreover, some other researchers (Miller, Merrilees,  Coghlan, 2015) introduced new concept, 'tourist social responsibility', with high relevance to furthering sustainable urban tourism destinations. 

Overall, the authors argued that urban tourist pro-environment behaviour drivers differ markedly from those of residents or ecotourists. A range of tourism industry and public sector agency policy recommendations are made, in terms of developing specific, well sited and easy to find/use environmental infrastructure assets such as recycling facilities and public transport, reducing implementation barriers and in formulating an overall pro-environmental image for the destination! 

• Ferguson, L., & Alarcón, D. M. (2015). Gender and sustainable tourism: reflections on theory and practice. Journal Of Sustainable Tourism, 23(3), 401-416.
• Miller, D., Merrilees, B., & Coghlan, A. (2015). Sustainable urban tourism: understanding and developing visitor pro-environmental behaviours. Journal Of Sustainable Tourism, 23(1), 26-46.

Hope this helps!

Nadeem

Hello,

I am currently co-adviser of a PhD candidate in a Moroccan university, and she is working on the notion of sustainable and solidarity-oriented tourism in Central Africa.

You also might be interested in a major colloquium that is focused on Sustainable Tourism (in French and English). Here is the call for communications:

CALL for PAPERS

«6th scientific Conference on Sustainable Tourism» Conciliation of Sustainable Tourism and Business, Québec City (Canada), June 10-12th 2015

For some managers, sustainability appears as a constraint in the marketing of tourism products and tourism destinations. For others, sustainable development represents a market opportunity and the opportunity to reach a segment of tourists sensitive to the impact of their consumption on the company visit. While managers can not be separated into two distinct camps, it is clear that the integration of sustainable tourism practices can be complex and represents several challenges

and appear as ambivalence.

For some managers of tourist destinations, sustainable development can also be seen as a constraint to economic development of the territory. Must then select some tourism products or logical development that does not always promote competitiveness against destinations based mass tourism, developed without constraint in a single logical short-term performance. For other managers of tourist destinations, sustainable development represents an opportunity to develop a

new territory from practices that consider not only economic imperatives, but also meet local people while seeking to minimize the impact of tourism on the environment. This may even be a position based on a niche market where marketing and sustainable operations is a comparative advantage.

The objective of this conference is to address the role of sustainability in the development and marketing of tourism destinations and products. Beyond the different approaches to integrate sustainable tourism businesses or tourist areas, this conference is an opportunity to explore the opportunities, challenges, and contradictions between trade, economic imperatives, environmental and cultural. If sustainable development is of great value to tourists, why all the regions do not they use sustainable development as the main line of development? It is possible

to reconcile the interests of all stakeholders of a territory who wish to develop their region around a sustainable development approach.

This conference also aims to address the integration of sustainable development in the production of tourist services or products, especially in organizational practices and marketing. This integration is a challenge facing tourism businesses. Researchers are invited to submit empirical research, methodological, and conceptual papers that focus on topics related to the implementation of sustainable tourism.

Potential themes to be addressed include following:

· Management of sustainable tourism

· Challenges and opportunities for sustainable tourism development

· Visitor expectations regarding sustainable tourism

· Tourism management of sustainable destination

· Sustainable tourism development and management practices

· Sustainable tourism planning and regional development

· Tourism sustainability, resiliency and dynamics

· Socio-ecological resilience and tourism

· Tourism planning without sustainable development

· Green Accounting Applications in mass tourism

· Challenges of sustainable tourism development in the developing world

· Approaching territorial sustainability and product certifications such as the

eco-label 

· Business and benefits to communities from sustainable tourism

· Governance, ethics and sustainable development

· The role of real estate in sustainable development

· Misrepresentation and sustainable tourism

· Marketing of sustainable tourism 

· Greenwashing and business ethics

· Destination attractiveness and environmentally responsible

· The benefits and costs of sustainable tourism

· Consumer demand for sustainable tourism

· Sustainable Tourism and cooperation between stakeholders.

Papers may be based both on qualitative or quantitative methods. The issues covered are very broad and can raise the following different fields: marketing, strategy, communication, consumer behavior, human resources, public management, economics, finance, logistics, legal and sustainable development.

This conference also aims to enable the meeting of tourism professionals who have decided to integrate or not to integrate sustainable development in the marketing of tourism products and destinations.

Chris Bryant

Dear @Mark, here is one paper that may be of help.  Tourism isn't my research area, but I'm quite interested in sustainable tourism.  

Do get in touch with Hengky, the author of the paper.  Thanks.

Article Investigated Sustainable Coastal Tourism in Samudra Baru and...

I have written on some issues. May be of some help.

Chapter Mountainous Eco-tourism and Environmental Impacts: Case Stud...

Chapter Millennium Development Goals and Pollution Exposure from Hou...

Article River rafting in mountainous regions of Uttarakhand: Impacts...

Dear Mark,

Most of my researches and studies are linked with tourism and sustainable rural development. I have gone through many contributions of different researchers related to sustainable development goal and tourism. My recent research was sustainable rural tourism development in rural Sri Lanka. My investigation also reveals that conventional mass tourism and so called alternative tourism labeled emerging tourism support to reach sustainable development goals in rural areas.

Dear Tourism Researchers,

I need some articles of feasibility studies with regards to tourism industry especially Community-Based Tourism (CBT)? I hope someone would help me? Thanks

Hello,

On my Research Gate publications, there are 2 articles (with full texts) on tourism and social aspects of tourism (so a strong link with one of the key dimensions of sustainable development ... communities), one is in French and the other in English. There are also several chapters in books or conference proceedings on the issues of tourism development in rural territories and communities. I am working gradually on posting full texts where this is possible, but it's a slow process!

Chris Bryant

Dear Velan,

I found these papers for your research on Community based Tourism:

Sabele (2009) doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2009.01.005

Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros (2011) doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2010.05.021

Both papers were published by Tourism Management.

Best Wishes,

Mark

Dear Mark. I think the DOI were invalid cant access them. Please give me the title of this articles. TQ

I have done My PhD thesis that relevant to this field; [my PhD topic :

Challenges to Implementing Community Based Ecotourism (CBET) as a Bottom up Development Approach in the Sinharaja Rain Forest (Sri Lanka)]

As i argued in the conclusion part of my thesis ;

  "Development is a constructed concept introduced by thinkers who have focused on creating a better new stage for human beings by changing the contemporary situation (Dellinger, 1995).  ‘A better new stage’ is also a comparative ideology which depends on the time-space and geo-political context values. This is the main reason why development ideologies change from time to time. One of the most interesting questions here is who develops development ideologies? According to the literature analysis, western scholars have brought about development theories and discourses viewing the world’s contemporary situation from their perspective. For example, the concept of alternative development was devised considering negative effects of unlimited development such as environmental degradation and the rising world poverty rate. Unlimited development is generally associated with capitalism. My argument is that although western thinkers have developed new alternative development ideologies such as sustainable and bottom up development to meet the present day development crisis, they have failed to pay enough attention to the socio-economic behaviour of capitalism. Therefore alternative development ideologies have become a fantasy.

Since the issue of unlimited development is based on capitalism, any modification made to development ideologies for better results becomes ineffective if the capitalist system continues further without control. Alternative development suffers from the lack of a mechanism to block western capitalism values mixing into sustainable and bottom up development ones. Even if sustainable and bottom up development approaches have been introduced to limit the unhealthy development of capitalism, their application can bring fundamentals of capitalism into the particular context, which can create problems for its sustainable development, which my field data analysis confirms" 

 I can recommend below research  papers as most suitable source to increase knowledge to answer your question 

Inskeep, E. (1991). Tourism planning: an integrated and sustainable development approach. Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Nelson, J. G., Butler, R., & Wall, G. (Eds.). (1993). Tourism and sustainable development: monitoring, planning, managing (No. 37). 

Halme, M. (2001). Learning for sustainable development in tourism networks. Business strategy and the Environment, 10(2), 100-114.

Sharpley, R. (2000). Tourism and sustainable development: Exploring the theoretical divide. Journal of Sustainable tourism, 8(1), 1-19.

Butler, R. W. (1991). Tourism, environment, and sustainable development. Environmental conservation, 18(03), 201-209.

France, L. A. (1997). The Earthscan reader in sustainable tourism. Earthscan Publications Ltd.