Sustainable Tourism Management: Gastronomy, Culture, Urban, Maritime
Managing Gastronomy Tourism
Establish a strategy to keep the quality, variety, and uniqueness of local products and gastronomy heritage.
- Develop guidelines to create gastronomic tourism products.
- Define the participation of gastronomic tourism in building the image and brand of the destination.
- Use key factors such as popular chefs, food guides, events, media, and the internet.
- Establish strong cooperation between all actors involved (public and private together).
- Promote training, knowledge, and research on gastronomy tourism.
Promoting Cultural Tourism
Cultural tourism relies on a multi-stakeholder approach.
- Needs to build international and regional networks and coordination.
- Should facilitate crossing national borders.
- Implies government-led actions.
- Requires public-private partnerships.
- Integrates marketing and promotion under a truly shared brand.
- Information and booking processes are significantly based on the internet.
- Financial profitability is a key factor for viability.
Managing City/Urban Tourism
- Evidence-based communication and collaboration mechanisms among all relevant stakeholders, including national, regional, and city authorities, the private sector, local communities, and tourists.
- Responsible use of big data and technology to better plan, measure, and manage urban tourism and promote evidence.
- Creation of innovative tourism products and experiences and the use of digital tools and platforms that allow the city to diversify demand in time and space and promote longer stays.
- Measurement and monitoring of urban tourism for better decision-making in 9 areas:
- Seasonality
- Employment
- Economic benefits
- Governance
- Local satisfaction
- Energy management
- Water management
- Wastewater management
- Solid waste management
Management – Maritime Tourism
There are a variety of stakeholders in maritime tourism, including the tourism industry, governments, and NGOs. Each of these groups has different actions that they can take to manage, measure, and monitor maritime tourism.
They can take actions to promote sustainable maritime tourism practices and to monitor and measure the impacts of maritime tourism activities.
Some examples of actions that the maritime industry can take to promote sustainable maritime tourism practices include:
- Investing in environmentally-friendly technologies
- Minimizing pollution and waste
- Protecting natural habitats.
Other actions:
- Conducting research to understand the impacts of maritime tourism activities.
- Developing educational programs to raise awareness about responsible maritime tourism practices.
- Creating incentives for businesses to adopt sustainable maritime tourism practices.
- Advocating for responsible maritime tourism practices at the policy level.
- Investing in green infrastructure to support sustainable maritime tourism activities.
- Creating public-private partnerships to promote responsible maritime tourism practices.
Key Terms and Concepts in Tourism
Eurotoques: Association of European chefs that promote original gastronomy.
Earth Markets: Places to buy high-quality products.
Fair Trade: Responsible consumption, paying what you have to pay for the producers.
Halal: Muslim food.
Kosher: Jewish food.
Enotourism: Wine tourism.
Accessible Tourism: The ongoing endeavor to ensure tourist destinations, products, and services are accessible to all people, regardless of their physical or intellectual limitations, disabilities, or age.
CBT: Community-based tourism.
Democratization of Culture: Making culture available to the demos.
Ecologization: Growing importance of environmental issues within agricultural policies and practices.
LAC: Limits of acceptable change.
Smart City: City with high technology.
Visitor Engagement: Visitors as temporary residents.
Thematic Tourism: Based on marketing those touristic products, activities, and experiences, developed for specific market segments.
UNAOC: United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.
UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Agritourism: Tourism in which tourists stay with local people in rural areas abroad.
CBT: Ensures your travel experience makes a genuine difference to local people.
Ecolodge: A type of tourist accommodation designed to have the minimum possible impact on the natural environment.
Greenwashing: Disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image.
Knowmads: A creative, imaginative, and innovative person who can work with almost anybody, anytime, and anywhere.
Painmoon Tourism: Turning-point wellness travel that helps those negatively affected focus on getting past the hard times.
Scattered Hotel: A hotel that is not in a single block but converted out of various historic buildings in a small community.
Shinrin-yoku: Making contact with and taking in the atmosphere of the forest.
Shoulder Season: A travel period between peak and off-peak seasons.
Slow Tourism: Travel that emphasizes connection to local people, cultures, food, and music. It relies on the idea that a trip is meant to educate and have an emotional impact while remaining sustainable for local communities and the environment.
Staycation: A holiday spent in one’s home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions.
IMO: International Maritime Organization.
MEPC: Marine Environment Protection Committee.
Blue Economy: An economy that “comprises a range of economic sectors and related policies that together determine whether the use of ocean resources is sustainable.”
Nautical Station: A network specialized in nautical tourism, which comprises companies of nautical activities, leisure, catering, and accommodation tourist destination, acting as a point of information and advice to clients interested in water sports.
Marine Ecotourism: A sector of sustainable tourism. It is considered a rapidly growing and profitable market that takes into account environmental conservation, reducing environmental impacts and promoting local communities’ interests.