| By: |
De Montis, Andrea (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics);
Deplano, Giancarlo;
Nijkamp, Peter |
| Abstract: |
Within the framework of the certification for the environmental management
system (EMS) and its total quality (i.e. ISO 14001 and VISION 2000),
methodologies and research focus on innovative models for sustainable and
environmentally-sound tourism. The complexity of these concepts requires the
assessment of analytical schemes able to tackle conflicting situations and the
subjectivity of political decisions. Thus, this paper provides insights into
decision-making for a hypothetical institutional body interested in developing
an objective standardized procedure for evaluating the spatial dimension of
sustainable tourist development. The methodology assessed belongs to the
family of multicriteria tools and is developed by the integration of the
Regime method (Hinloopen and Nijkamp, 1990) with the AHP method (Saaty, 1988).
The high volatility of the results is studied by means of sensitivity analysis
and this leads to further reflections on the requirements of an Internet-based
evaluation and learning process, grounded in a remote access debate among the
stakeholders. |
| Keywords: |
Multicriteria analysis; Sustainable tourism; Environmental planning |
| Date: |
2004 |
| URL: |
https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:dgr:vuarem:2004-18 |