Sustainable Tourism as Related to the Local Development

Abstract

Focusing on the requirements of sustainable tourism, which have emerged under the influence of environmental prescriptions, we have reached to a new stage for the study of this field. The dominant paradigm owes its key concept to the supply-demand equilibrium model, related to the satisfactions of tourists and the accepted conditions on the side of host communities. To create the sustainable tourism, the most important prerequisite should be set by legitimizing the optimum conditions to develop local communities. The sustainable tourism should be discussed in wider perspectives on the related optimum prerequisite functional to the development of rural and urban communities. According to the author's view, tourism would be sustainable under such specific circumstance as maintaining sustainable development, sustainable environment and sustainable community or strong community itself As in recent years the problem of so-called ‘tourism pollution’ has emerged, which may be caused from the over-capacity on the side of tourist resorts and the conflicts of interests between visitors and community members, the peoples concerned should coexist in order to fill the prerequsites of sustainable tourism.