Tourism as a globally important sector and the world’s fastest-growing
industry is a source of job creation for millions of people and contributes to global
GDP significantly. The role of tourism in the contemporary era is enormous and will
be even more vital in the coming years. However, there are some downsides related
to tourism, which demands serious attention for future sustainability to reap longterm benefits. Therefore, the researchers and policymakers focused on sustainable
tourism to get around and minimize the underlying negative impacts of tourism.
However, previous studies contain research gaps regarding sustainability indicators:
a) Careful assessment of the indicators is needed for higher validity and
reliability and that has been overlooked.
b) Traditional dimensions of sustainable tourism are unable to achieve a higher
level of total variance explained; therefore, the new dimensions related to
infrastructural sustainability and technological sustainability are important to
consider for developing sustainable tourism.
c) The development of a multidimensional sustainable tourism index with new
dimensions and the use of an index for cross-location comparisons is
undeveloped yet.
Thus, this thesis aims to fill these research gaps. Mainly, this research
examines the traditional dimensions as well as introduce the two new dimensions
(infrastructural and technological dimensions), and develop a comprehensive set of
indicators and index to monitor parameters of sustainable tourism. Using the Delphi
method, the initial list of indicators has been reduced, and a survey method is used
to collect data from selected cities of Pakistan (Lahore, Islamabad, and Faisalabad).
The validity and reliability have been assessed by using different methods including
Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM).
Furthermore, the Multidimensional Sustainable Tourism Index (MSTI) has been
developed by including two new sustainable dimensions to conduct comparisons
among three destinations. The thesis provides theoretical contributions as follows:
a) By introducing two new dimensions of tourism sustainability (infrastructural
and technological dimensions) to give a broad and thorough view of
sustainable tourism.
b) By considering the three traditional and two new dimensions, the
development of multidimensional sustainable tourism index (MSTI) to do
cross-location comparisons.
Besides, the doctoral thesis gives benefits for practice, by helping the stakeholders
of the tourism industry to choose robust indicators. The developed MSTI will
provide sustainability status in the selected cities of Pakistan and will come up with
practical suggestions to achieve sustainability.
| ISBN: | 978-80-7454-983-0 |
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| EAN: | 9788074549830 |
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| Počet stran |
47 stran |
| Datum vydání |
09. 02. 2021 |
| Pořadí vydání |
První |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Vazba |
e-kniha - pdf |
| Autor: |
Mohsin Javed |
| Nakladatelství |
Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně |
| Tématická skupina |
999 - nezařazeno |
| Neprodejná publikace. Publikaci je možné poptávat zde: Volně dostupné na http://hdl.handle.net/10563/45990 |
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