What is it about?
Policies, projects and spatial plans are necessary to achieve sustainable tourism. If however, these are not implemented to safeguard the physical environment and create economic livelihoods then tourism becomes unsustainable and undermines potential benefits. Policymakers and decision-makers should therefore consider the use of an array of measures to promote sustainable tourism. The paper recommends the use of regulations such as land use zoning, building regulations, environmental regulations, infrastructure planning and market instruments to help small island developing states attain sustainable tourism.
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Why is it important?
This research is instrumental in guiding policymakers and decision-makers to make appropriate decisions which protect the sensitive ecosystems upon which tourism is highly dependent in the Caribbean.
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I felt that there was a need to close a gap in research on sustainable tourism in the context of spatial planning in small island developing states as a whole and in the Caribbean. This article has been widely read by scholars and young researchers as well as planning practitioners in this subject area and profession.
Professor Michelle A. Mycoo
Dept. of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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This page is a summary of: Sustainable Tourism Using Regulations, Market Mechanisms and Green Certification: A Case Study of Barbados, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, September 2006, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.2167/jost600.0.
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