Sustainability and Tourism in the Era of Asia Pacific

For the whole world the source of income, employment, and economic growth has been strongly disrupted by tourism. Today, the context of its membership in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) plays a fundamental role in achieving a great development; this dissertation analyzes tourism in this block as an economic activity that interacts with the environment, causing not only positive effects such as improving competitiveness, increasing population labor system and an economic increase in the countries that touch it; but also negative consequences, such as tourism overcrowding and poor resource management that can destroy the tourist base on which the sector depends. The theoretical basis of the research rests on the analysis of the proposals for sustainable tourism competitiveness with which this economic block counts, in order to analyze the empirical results of the application of environment and sustainable development indicators with respect to tourism, as well as the perception, on that subject, of national and international by actors and organisms within APEC.

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