Model for developing five key pillars of sustainable tourism: A literature review

Abstract

Tourism is one of the most important sectors that drive the national economic growth. There is a lot of research conducted on sustainable tourism. Furthermore, previous studies on tourism have been done by many researchers, yet there is no research that reviews the literature about the five key pillars of sustainable tourism development with three aspects of sustainable tourism, namely social-culture, economy, and environment. This research was conducted with the aim to review and map previous studies related to sustainable tourism and the key pillars of its development. With the mapping in descriptive statistical analysis, it is expected that the findings will provide information and fill the unfilled research gap as well as to suggest academic contribution to identifying the key pillars in developing sustainable tourism. Considering the large number of studies on sustainable tourism, this study focused on the five key pillars of sustainable tourism development, namely tourism attraction, accessibility, amenity, ancillary, and community involvement as well as the three sustainability aspects. Research mapping was done by classifying previous studies based on the five key pillars. The finding shows that there is a need to develop the model of all key pillars to support sustainable tourism. The model which is going to be developed can be based on simulation approach, such system dynamics model.