Open AccessResponsible Tourism: A Destination Perspective
Author(s) -
A. Vinodan
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
atna journal of tourism studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0975-3281
DOI - 10.12727/ajts.3.4
Subject(s) - tourism , tourism geography , business , perspective (graphical) , resource (disambiguation) , ecotourism , sustainable tourism , natural resource , sustainable development , marketing , environmental resource management , environmental planning , political science , economics , geography , computer network , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
Responsible tourism is a sustainable tourism approach, which encompasses all forms of tourism and seeks to minimize negative economic, environment and social impacts. It generates economic benefit to local people and enhances the wellbeing of host communities. It also makes positive contributions to the conservations of natural and cultural resources. Implementation of responsible tourism among different tourism players is considered as a tiresome task before the policy makers. This article is an attempt to develop a mechanism for implementing responsible tourism from a destination oriented approach to tourism development. It also examines the role of different stakeholders for catering the basic concept of sustainable tourism development like conservation, local level resource management, equitable sharing of resource