Tourism on small islands: The urgency for sustainability indicators
公開日 2020年08月07日
国際観光学研究センター（CTR）専任研究員であるJoseph M. Cheer特任教授の論文が国際学術誌「The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Islands Economic Cooperation Forum ANNUAL REPORT ON GLOBAL ISLANDS 2019」に掲載されました。これは、Cheer特任教授が2019年8月に中国?海南省で開催された同フォーラムで講演を行った主題です。
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論文タイトル
Tourism on small islands: The urgency for sustainability indicators
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著者
Joseph M. Cheer, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan
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書誌事項
The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
Islands Economic Cooperation Forum
ANNUAL REPORT ON GLOBAL ISLANDS 2019
Chapter 5, pp. 129-152
ISBN 978-1-988692-37-1 (print)
ISBN 978-1-988692-38-8 (digital)
Island Studies Press at University of Prince Edward Island
Tourism on small islands The urgency for sustainability indicators
http://projects.upei.ca/unescochair/files/2020/07/Annual-Report-on-Global-Islands-2019.pdf
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要旨
To consider small islands as places for sustainable tourism—or sustainable anything, for that matter—must surely be cause for critical deliberation. Small islands as sanctuaries, or rare citadels for ecological safekeeping and tight-knit communities, runs counter to islands as sites for extraction and development, yet increasingly the latter prevails. However, the former are the precise reasons that small islands are aligned with the global travel supply chain. Consuming small islands abides with the tropical idyll narrative and, within such invocations, the exposure of small islands to externalities renders its utility to purposes that run counter to benign and constructive outcomes. Herein is the dilemma for small islands and their entanglements with tourism expansion.
The principal question posed asks: is the proliferation of tourism on small islands enhancing the development of social-ecological resilience, or accelerating the onset of system failure? If so, how can unfolding trajectories be monitored and assessed? The UNWTO’s Mandatory Issue Areas for the observation of sustainable tourism are applied as guiding indicators. The urgency to articulate indicators of sustainable tourism devel- opment is palpable because the conceptualization of small islands as ideal tourist escapes will likely intensify. Small islands cannot afford to experience monumental blunders given their scale, adaptive capacity limitations, and relative fragility.
