Development of Main Directions for Achieving Sustainability in Tourism

Abstract

It is challenging to identify key conditions for the integration of sustainable tourism in public or environmental policy, both in a national and international context. Therefore, this article aims to contribute insight into how sustainability can be integrated into environmental policy by studying a number of recent planning processes related to tourism. Sustainable tourism concept has been assuming a lot of importance especially since late 1980s. Tourism specialists are also doing ample researches on this topic. However, sustainability issues have not found its exact solutions so far. Especially, environmental impact of tourism is an alarming issue in some parts of the world. That’s why, this study has been carried out being motivated by both existing issues and relevant environmental policies which are being instituted by nationally and globally. Findings indicate that main clogs for reaching sustainability in tourism are: lack of responsibility by humans towards their surrounding world, ecology, nature; less promotion of sustainable travel in tourism industry; lack of political or governmental participation in reaching sustainability in tourism sector. The study targets analyzing the main issues and offering some relevant solution.