Planificación y gestión sostenible del turismo es una obra en la que los autores, conocidos expertos y divulgadores en el campo de la Economía Ambiental y el Turismo, tratan de ofrecer esa perspectiva -bidimensional- sobre la actividad turística y ayudar a comprender no sólo los mecanismo tanto de la planificación como de la gestión sostenible, sino también los riesgos de un desarrollo indiscriminado fundado en un monocultivo mal regulado y peor controlado. A todo eso hay que añadir que el crecimiento de la industria turística está provocando que tanto los destinos tradicionales como los nuevos destinos turísticos padezcan una presión creciente sobre sus recursos naturales, culturales así como sobre su entorno social y económico. Es la sensibilidad y conciencia social en torno a los problemas ambientales lo que está propiciando la aplicación de criterios de sostenibilidad en los procesos de planificación turística. Esta obra es fruto de ese creciente interés y, por qué no decirlo, de esa necesidad ineludible de ver la actividad económica como un medio y no como un fin.

This publication contains around 50 examples of good practices in sustainable development & management of tourism, collected from 31 countries.

The Conference addresses the subjects of regional development in an integrated way in accordance with the principles of sustainability and provides a common forum for all scientists specialising in the range of subjects included within sustainable development and planning.

A collection of essays from scholars evaluating tourism as a means of simulating economic growth and fighting economic inequalities in poor countries. It takes a look at the successes and failures of tourism in this role, and considers why tourism as a catalyst for economic development can be a controversial device.

This book contains a collection of papers presented at a series of meetings organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) dealing with sustainability, the environment and ecological issues. The complexity of the modern world presents new challenges to scientists and engineers that requires finding interdisciplinary solutions. Any problem solving carried out in the isolation of a particular field of expertise may give rise to a series of damaging effects which can create new and unintentional environmental and ecological problems. Specialisation, while required in our culture, needs to be kept under control by the understanding of the whole, which leads to the need of relying on interdisciplinary teams. Nowadays this can be easily achieved thanks to the massive advances in information technology which ensure continuous and immediate contact between all partners. This collaboration needs to be effective and to produce results that will lead to a better world. For this to happen, it is necessary that different groups of scientists and engineers acquire the necessary skills to be able to talk to each other. Furthermore, they need to understand the social and economic aspects of a given problem, in addition to the scientific and engineering issues involved. The Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) has a long and very successful record in organising interdisciplinary conferences. The papers in this book are a reflection of the proceedings of some of those meetings.

This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems (ICOTTS 2022), held at University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, from 3 to 5 November 2022. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers the areas of technology in tourism and the tourist experience, generations and technology in tourism, digital marketing applied to tourism and travel, mobile technologies applied to sustainable tourism, information technologies in tourism, digital transformation of tourism business, e-tourism and tourism 2.0, big data and management for travel and tourism, geotagging and tourist mobility, smart destinations, robotics in tourism, and information systems and technologies.