Problem:
Following the popularization of sustainable development as an environmental management concept by the publication of World Commission on the Environment and Development’s (WECD) ‘Our Common Future’ in the late 1980s (WCED, 1987), a expanding proportion of the tourism research literature has focused on the principles and practice of sustainable tourism development.
Required:
Question1. Critically discuss and describe the concept of sustainable tourism development.
Question2. Using appropriate examples to demonstrate your arguments, critically examine the role of indicators to measure sustainable tourism development.