Balancing Development and Sustainability in Tourism Destinations Pro

This book contains 35 papers from the Tourism Outlook Conference held in Lombok, Indonesia in July 2015. The book presents comprehensive discussions on sustainability in the tourism industry. It includes research on various constituents of the tourism sec

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g Development and Sustainability in Tourism Destinations Proceedings of the Tourism Outlook Conference 2015

Balancing Development and Sustainability in Tourism Destinations

Akhmad Saufi Imanuella R. Andilolo Norain Othman Alan A. Lew •



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Balancing Development and Sustainability in Tourism Destinations Proceedings of the Tourism Outlook Conference 2015

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Editors Akhmad Saufi Economics and Business Faculty Mataram University Mataram Indonesia

Norain Othman Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam Malaysia Alan A. Lew Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, AZ USA

Imanuella R. Andilolo Economics and Business Faculty Mataram University Mataram Indonesia

ISBN 978-981-10-1716-2 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-1718-6

ISBN 978-981-10-1718-6

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Preface

Sustainable development has been at the core of place and environmental management since it was introduced through the UN’s World Commission on the Environment and Development (WCED) report, Our Common Future, in 1987. For many places, however, creating sustainable communities and environments seems to be continually beyond the reach of our achievements. Part of this challenge is because the concept of sustainable development includes both the goals of economic development and the often contradictory goals of environmental and cultural conservation. As such, sustainable development in general, and sustainable tourism in particular, is inherently contested and has outcomes that typically result in winners and losers. The papers in this volume explored these issues from a global south perspective. They were selected from the highly successful Topical Tourism Outlook Conference, held on the island of Lombok in Indonesia, during Ju