Is the terminology of sustainable destination management appropriate or incorrect because sustainable tourism has been implemented in destination management? So there is no need for such sustainable destination management terminology, just destination management?
Destination management and Sustainable destination management, both are correct.
The sustainable destination management terminology is appropriate because you are not necessarily referring to a tourism modality or typology, rather you take into account the provider of a service, the space and/or the tourism system.
The "World Council for Sustainable Tourism" has its instrument to assess sustainability in travel and tourism and one of the criteria is "Sustainable Management"
"Tourcert" carries out accompaniments to implement and evaluate sustainable and successful business practices until reaching a certification where it seeks to demonstrate that the management is sustainable.
This leads us to realize that despite the fact that the countries have signed agreements linked to the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda, its implementation has not yet been achieved, it is within the national and specific tourism regulations, but when you review what It happens in accommodation services, food and beverages, tourist transport, tourist operation, intermediation or in a destination, you realize that much remains to be done. For this reason, there are also quality badges (these provide implementers who teach you how to improve management to make it sustainable so that you reach the goal of achieving the badge as a reward for the effort involved in changing the organizational culture, that is, a change in the way of doing things).
Take into account that if we talk about the tourist system (if I look at the one proposed according to Cristina Varisco), it is made up of the superstructure (public, private and third sector organizations whose purpose is to plan and coordinate the operation of the tourist system), community recipient (hosts and local population, who do not participate directly), infrastructure (set of works and services that serve as the basis for the development of all economic activities, and consequently, may be of common use or may be specific to tourism ), demand (number of people who travel or want to travel) and supply (set of goods and services placed on the market, that is, tourist resources and companies that make up the tourist equipment and linkages).
In my particular case, when reviewing the management of tourism in a city, I determined that there was still a lot to be done for the management to be sustainable, for example, in several areas there were no sidewalks, which means that you do not even have the basic infrastructure for the local community or that you did not have of basic services such as drinking water, streets without asphalt, personnel who have not received training or training, who are not paid salaries according to regulations or who do not have life insurance (which is mandatory as a right labor), or that good manufacturing practices for food are not applied (which is stated in the regulations), that there are no policies, processes and control mechanisms in relation to reducing the waste of resources, among many things; So you are evaluating the organizational culture of that territory, that is, the sustainable management of that destination; and to show that you do it well you must change the ways of doing things.
Thank you Yadira Priano for your explanation that talking concerning sustainable destination, it should be linked to tourism system which is needed management to create sustainable destination.
I would argue:
a. correct: sustainable destination - management
b. incorrect: sustainable - destination management
Because today it is mostly about environmental problems (a.). If it is about (b.) environmental, economic and social/cultural problems one has to ask if this can be managed at all?
Sustainable destination management is the sub component of the sustainable tourism management system.
It's like 'smart city' concept!
Sustainable destination management concern the whole management système : sustainable accommodation, restaurant, good practisse like waste management. Every think must be Taken 'environnemental management and RSE' into account.
@Mohamed Ait Tejan: the most easy to be understood. Thank you.
@Ida Bagus Wyasa: I do agree
@Michael Domsalla: exactly Sir
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