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Introduction

Module targets
Introducing to coastal tourism

Concepts

Sustainable Development
Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable Coastal Tourism

Tourism Ethics

Policies for Sustainable Tourism Development

Tourism Resources
Resources Dependency
Tourism Carrying Capacity
Environmental Quality

Why Sustainable Coastal Tourism ?

Introduction
Problems of Unsustainable Coastal Tourism
Socio-cultural Impacts
Economic Impacts
Benefits of Sustainable Coastal Tourism
Environmental Management and Planning Benefits

Socio-cultural Benefits

Practice

Sustainable Tourism Strategy

Tools

Impact assessment
Environmental auditing (EA)

Assessing carrying capacity

Certification and Eco-labelling

Indicators for sustainable tourism

EcoTaxes, EcoCharges, Fees
Environmental education and awareness programmes
Cooperation of actors
Codes of Conduct and Guidelines for Sustainable Tourism
Involvement of Civil Society institutions
Communicating sustainability
Marketing sustainable tourism products

Case studies

The Vainameri project - Estonia
Slovenian coast
Belek - Turkey
Mamaia - Romania

Danube - Ukraine, Romania

Arctic tourism

Curonian Lagoon - Lithuania
Kingisepp District - Russia

Conclusions

Conclusions
Test

Sources

References
Glossary

 

Mamaia - Romania



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