Abstract
Academic and policy interest in ecological footprint analysis has grown rapidly in recent years. To date, however, the application of ecological footprint analysis to tourism has been limited. This article aims to discuss the potential of ecological footprint analysis to assess sustainability in tourism. It is about a comparison of the global environmental impacts of different forms of tourism in southern countries where tourism is a major source of foreign exchange earnings. It illustrates how an ecotourism destination has a larger ecological footprint than a “mass” tourism destination.
Highlights
The ecological footprint (EF) concept was introduced in the 1990s by William Rees and MathisWackernagel [1,2]
The method remains the same for studies that have applied the Ecological footprint analysis (EFA) to the tourism sector [5]. It relates human consumption and waste production to six major components of productive space: built-up land, fossil energy land, arable land, pasture, sea space, and forest [22,23]
We propose to calculate the ecological footprint of tourism in Tunisia by using the data of the Office National du Tourisme Tunisien (ONTT) report of
Summary
The ecological footprint (EF) concept was introduced in the 1990s by William Rees and MathisWackernagel [1,2]. The EF measures the amount of biologically productive land and sea area an individual, a region, a given population or a human activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb. Sustainability 2012, 4 the corresponding emissions (such as carbon dioxide from fossil use), using prevailing technology and resource management practices. It compares this measurement to how much land and sea area is available [3,4,5]. Productive land and sea includes area that (1) supports human demand for food, fibre, timber, energy and space for infrastructure and (2) absorbs the carbon dioxide emissions from the human economy
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