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Difficulties and Challenges in Applying the European Tourism Indicators System (ETIS) for Sustainable Tourist Destinations: The Case of Braşov County in the Romanian Carpathians
- Source :
- Sustainability, Vol 9, Iss 10, p 1879 (2017), Sustainability; Volume 9; Issue 10; Pages: 1879
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2017.
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Abstract
- Tourist destinations are increasingly coming across multiple social, economic, cultural, and environmental challenges corroborated with a great urgency for sustainable development. In this context, the European Commission has launched in 2013 a unitary system of indicators for sustainable management of tourism destinations, called The European Tourism Indicators System (ETIS). More specifically, ETIS was configured initially with a total of 27 core indicators and 40 additional (optional) indicators. The purpose of this paper is to present the difficulties and challenges encountered in the application of ETIS, having as a case study, the county of Braşov, located almost entirely in the Romanian Carpathians. In this regard, a testing technique has been designed through an innovative Group Decision Support System (GDSS) that is applied to our destination. The results show that the selection of ETIS indicators is a flexible process that must be adequate with the particularities of each destination taking into account both the needs of the stakeholders, the information that is useful to them, and the existence and periodicity of the data available. Also, in some cases, when the available indicators are insufficient, additional indicators have to be introduced, and they must be subsequently adapted to the needs and specifics of the destination.
- Subjects :
- Decision support system
tourist destination
sustainable tourism
indicators
European Tourism Indicators System (ETIS)
Romanian Carpathians
Braşov
Process (engineering)
Geography, Planning and Development
TJ807-830
Context (language use)
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
Environmental protection
0502 economics and business
GE1-350
Environmental planning
Sustainable tourism
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Sustainable development
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Romanian
05 social sciences
language.human_language
Environmental sciences
Sustainable management
language
Business
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
Tourism
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0ee412ead05b9ce171370ed5ef1ad891