Responsible Tourism Concept: Alternatives or Salvation Towards Sustainable Development Goals

The aim of this academic article was to present the concept of responsible tourism applied in management to balance the three pillars of sustainability in national and international policy, product and service design in hotels, restaurants, and travel businesses related areas. The concept of responsible tourism is one of the tourism concepts that focusses on the responsible concerns of service providers and travelers by reflecting their concerns through the management process of product and service design to prevent behaviors of both service providers and travelers that may affect the environment and local identity. The design of products and services that conserve tourism resources, reflect environmental management, and sustainable management. The article showa examples of hotels’ and restaurants’ business policies that integrate environmental awareness processes with the design concept for the environment in the products and services design. The paper gathers information and analysis from national and international travel policies and trends, surveys and reports of global travel agencies, research papers, and industry examples that have implemented responsible tourism concept over the past two decades.Responsible tourism is not the responsibility of any one person but it is the duty and responsibility of us all to achieve sustainable development goals together