Round Table: Tourism & Sustainability
1. What does ‘sustainability’ mean to you/your organisation/your area?
2. How does this view of ‘sustainability’ inform practice in your area? Are these views and practices properly represented and respected in public policy, the media and education?
3. Do you feel comfortable with how the term ‘sustainability’ is understood and represented in relation to tourism by: the tourism industry; community movements addressing the impacts of tourism; policy-makers, institutions and public bodies?
4. What are the challenges and successes in discussing ‘sustainable tourism’ with different sectors, such as the tourism industry, community movements addressing the impacts of tourism, tourist themselves, policy-makers, institutions and public bodies?
5. Do you see ‘sustainable tourism’ as a useful concept to communicate the environmental and social challenges that we are facing as human beings? Or do you see it as a greenwashing concept?