A Responsible Tourism System at Glacier Tourism Sites: Reducing the Impacts of Tourism Activities on Glaciers |
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| Authors: | WANG Shuxin TAN Chunping DU Jiankuo TANG Zi LIU Chenyan WANG Yarong |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Humanities, Shaanxi University of Technology, Hanzhong, Shaanxi 723000, China2. Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China3. Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610207, China4. School of Tourism and Cuisine, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150076, China |
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| Abstract: | The anthropogenic heat release from tourism activities has a cumulative effect on glacial retreat when coupled with climate change. Mitigating the impacts of glacial tourism activities on glaciers and promoting the sustainable development of glacial tourism have become urgent issues. Taking Yulong and Hailuogou glacier tourism destinations as examples, we collected survey questionnaires related to glacial tourists (n=1113) and tourism companies (n=329) by systematic field surveys during 2016-2017, and we obtained data on energy consumption from catering, accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, shopping, entertainment, and waste disposal. This study builds a responsible tourism system and discusses the strategies and measures used to engage stakeholders (mainly tourism companies, tourists, local governments, tourism associations, and the central government) in responsible tourism in order to reduce the impacts of tourism activities on glaciers. These strategies mainly include: improving the energy efficiency of the supply of tourism products and services, promoting the consumption of low-energy tourism products and services, strengthening the supervision and management of low-energy consumption tourism development, creating an environment for energy savings and consumption reduction, and establishing a long-term operational mechanism for responsible tourism management. A rewsponsible tourism system allows stakeholders to properly address this dilemma, internalize sustainable development goals to find their intrinsic self-discipline, and work together to fulfill the public responsibility of realizing the sustainable development of glacial tourism. |
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| Keywords: | glacier tourism stakeholders responsible tourism system sustainable development |
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