Specialized Literature
2015: Sustainable Tourism – Principles, certification and measurement
Scientific monograph entitled Sustainable Tourism: Principles, certification and measurement focuses on current topic of the sustainability application and sustainable principles in the fast growing tourism industry. The introduction presents the different definitions of sustainability and sustainable development, including the definition applied to sustainable tourism. It provides a basic overview of milestones of sustainable development, followed by the introduction of forms and types of tourism that are inherently considered as sustainable. A special chapter is devoted to the certification of sustainable tourism in the Czech Republic but also abroad. Next chapter presents the possibility of measuring sustainability in tourism in set of indicators or in indicators alone. The final chapter is devoted to the possibilities of sustainability management in enterprises and tourism destination. Monograph consists of several case studies and photos in the appendix.