Our study addressed this need for practical assistance in the tourism
industry by ‘putting SIA to the test’ to see howuseful SIAmight be in responsible
tourism practice, and by identifying any practical adaptations
needed to make SIA suitable in this small business context. In theory,
the SIA approach with its values, principles and methods (Esteves
et al., 2012; Vanclay, 2003; Vanclay et al. 2015) has a lot in common
with responsible tourism, but in practice there has been very little attention
to investigate howSIAmight be useful as part of a management
approach that embraces responsible tourism in line with the sustainability
objectives of the Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism
in Destinations (ICRTD, 2002).