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Sustainable tourism among swedish tourism service providers: easy to say but difficult to implement
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Business, Economics and Law. (Samhällsentreprenörskap och regional utveckling)ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5261-8169
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Business, Economics and Law. (Samhällsentreprenörskap och regional utveckling)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2951-9204
2016 (English)In: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, ISSN 1476-1297, E-ISSN 1741-8054, Vol. 29, no 2, p. 309-321Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The research objective of this study was to investigate and analyse how Swedish tourism service providers present their work with sustainability. Data was collected from 48 randomly selected tourism service providers in Sweden, ranging from micro and small to medium-sized tourism service providers. The 48 different tourism service providers also offer different types of tourism services (e.g. tourist agency, stay, do and travel). The results show that the issues of sustainable tourism are present but that the scope is fairly small; focus is mainly on economic sustainability. There are some micro tourism service providers that are strongly focused on all three dimensions of sustainably, often offering some kind of nature-based tourism attraction. The medium-sized and small tourism service providers address the issues of environmental sustainability but in reality there is little action; sustainable tourism is more of a buzzword for the Swedish tourism service providers than concrete action.

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2016. Vol. 29, no 2, p. 309-321
Keywords [en]
Economic sustainability, Environmental sustainability, Social sustainability, Sustainable tourism, Swedish tourism, Tourism service providers
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Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-26414DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2016.078700Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84986204856OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-26414DiVA, id: diva2:881905
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Samhällsentreprenörskap och regional utvecklingAvailable from: 2015-12-11 Created: 2015-12-11 Last updated: 2017-12-01Bibliographically approved

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