This week’s topics
Evaluating Destination Development Status
- Tourism economic yield and satellite accounts
- Import leakage rates
- Host population living standards
- Composite sustainability benchmarks
- Week 3-Lecture 22 : Sustainability Standards
- Week 3-Lecture 23 : Sustainability Standards
- Week 1-Lecture 1 : Introduction to Sustainable Development and Sustainability
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Explain a range of measures of development.
- 3.2 Make judgements about the development status of countries using tourism by applying development indicators.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain a range of measures of development.
Study materials
Videos
- Separate measurement of tourism sustainability and destination carrying capacity · YouTube · UN Tourism · 11 min · for registered students
- Experiences in creating evidence for a sustainable tourism development in Navarra, Spain · YouTube · UN Tourism · 16 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Human Development Index data centre (UNDP) · Reading · Un, report · for registered students
- Tourism for Development: 20 Reasons Sustainable Tourism Counts for Development (World Bank Group, 2017) · Reading · Other, report · for registered students
- Tourism: The International Business (Mill, 2010), ch. 6: Why develop tourism? · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 130–149 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
