Sustainable tourism indicators: what’s new within the smart city/destination approach?
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Título: | Sustainable tourism indicators: what’s new within the smart city/destination approach? |
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Autor/es: | Ivars-Baidal, Josep | Vera-Rebollo, José Fernando | Perles Ribes, José Francisco | Femenia-Serra, Francisco | Celdrán-Bernabéu, Marco Antonio |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Planificación y Gestión Sostenible del Turismo |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Geográfico Regional y Geografía Física | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Investigaciones Turísticas |
Palabras clave: | Smart destinations | Smart cities | Sustainable tourism indicators | Standards | Tourism planning |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Análisis Geográfico Regional |
Fecha de publicación: | 3-feb-2021 |
Editor: | Routledge |
Cita bibliográfica: | Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 2023, 31(7): 1556-1582. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2021.1876075 |
Resumen: | Indicators are a fundamental tool for destinations in their progress towards a more sustainable tourism development. However, the lack of real progress and the accelerated technological change are obliging policy makers to rethink the existing indicator systems. This paper examines the relationship between smart cities and destinations and sustainable tourism indicators by analyzing proposals at different scales. It provides a critical review of international smart city standards and the role that sustainability indicators play within them. Then, it conducts a content analysis of planning instruments applied in smart strategies in Spain, focusing on how sustainability indicators are considered under the smart paradigm. At the regional-local scale, this research compares two sets of indicators and tests the scientific validity of one of them for addressing the imbalance suffered by many indicators between their usefulness for policy makers and their academic rigor. The results show that little progress has been achieved despite the appropriation of the sustainability discourse by smart city and smart destination promoters. These findings reveal the (limited) real contribution made by smart cities/destinations to sustainable tourism development and contribute to identifying weaknesses and opportunities so as to redirect smart policies and projects. A final discussion contextualizes the findings within the novel framework of smart sustainability and highlights the need to reinforce public governance of urban and tourist spaces. |
Patrocinador/es: | This work was supported by the Spanish National R&D&I Plan financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) under grant CSO2017-82592-R (“Analysis of planning processes applied to smart cities and tourist destinations. Balance and proposal of a new methodology: Smart Tourism Planning”). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/115145 |
ISSN: | 0966-9582 (Print) | 1747-7646 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1080/09669582.2021.1876075 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2021.1876075 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - PGST - Artículos de Revistas |
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