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J.M. Bloyer, L.D. Gustke & Y. Leung

Abstract

Once the Brundtland Report on sustainable development was published in 1987, and \“sustainable tourism” was accepted into the lexicon of tourism discourse, a substantial amount of so-called \“sustainable tourism development planning” has occurred in a number of destinations. The use of indicators to monitor development and maintain sustainability were included in these plans, but rarely operationalized effectively. This problem was the result of a lack of agreement over what, exactly, \“sustainable tourism development” means, and the resulting confusion over creating indicators for an undefined concept [1, 4, 13, 14, 18]. The purpose of this paper is to examine the current state of research in sustainable tourism development as it pertains to these indicators that point toward the sustainability of a destination. A substantial amount of literature exists regardi

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