4.6. Develop tourism sustainability assessment maps
The outputs from a tourism sustainability assessment exercise, using scales of sustainability levels, can be presented in graph form. TSAMs are a graphic tool for displaying the system quality of a tourist destination. Their purpose can be summarised as follows: to help to identify the current situation in a community; to generate possible future scenarios from the situation; to clarify the trade-offs that are implicit in indicator selection; to make tourism issues or concerns more accessible to stakeholders; to assist stakeholders to define their goals and objectives; to make all parts of the sustainability assessment process clear and explicit; and to serve as an educational tool (adapted from Clayton & according to the types of sustainability. Two types of TSAMs are introduced. For example, the BTS is useful to explain the comprehensive level of sustainability of the human system and ecosystem. On the other hand, the ATSI is more appropriate when explaining the sustainability of individualised tourism indicators.