Abstract
This study is addressed to understand: (1) how the Chinese policies for tourism meet the international guidelines for sustainable development promoted by the United Nations, through the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and (2) how the Chinese policies for tourism are applied in reality by design practice. To answer these two research questions, the research considers mainly three groups of reference sources: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; the Outline for National Tourism and Leisure 2013–2020 (ONTL) of the Chinese Government and their analyses from independent sources; the descriptions of architectural interventions for hospitality. According with the two research questions, the research is based on two phases: (1) a comparison between the Chinese policies for tourism development and the international policies for sustainable development; (2) a search of sustainable policies in the design practice, through the analysis of 30 projects for hospitality, realized in China after 2013. The results of both the phases propose a new paradigm in understanding China’s role as a country leading sustainable tourism for development.
Highlights
The results of this paper offer a new paradigm for understanding China’s role as a country leading practices for development of sustainable tourism and the hospital sector
The Chinese Government is aware of the importance of spatial design for the promotion of sustainable tourism and, in particular, of the importance of a design capable to regenerate the historical heritage of the country
As the developed analyses show, all the eight key points of the Outline for National Tourism and Leisure 2013–2020 (ONTL) that were considered relevant for the research have some strategies clearly related to at least two Sustainable Development Goals (Figure 3)
Summary
A list of main goals is presented, regarding different fields: financial (paid annual leave system), social (attention to both urban and rural residents) and cultural (incitement for Healthy, civilized and environment-friendly ways of tourism and leisure). This point refers to the role that, even if in two different ways, the public and private bodies have in helping their employees having flexible and paid leave. This guideline refers to the educational entities, which holidays can be modified. As it is understandable, this point has strong implication on the touristic and hospitality sectors, on the infrastructures and on the activities required to supply this new demand generated by these new policies. From the analyses of this point “Sufficient time for national tourism and leisure” the planning strategies (PS) obtained are: Sufficient time - for national tourism and leisure
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