TABLE 2. Guidelines supporting sustainable tourism development
01) Actors involved in tourism should have an ethical responsibility to avoid the misuse of the
resources the tourism industry depends on and clear sustainable aims must be set.
02) The growth of tourism must be controlled.
03) The tourism planning perspective must be long-term.
04) All resources – environmental, economic, social, cultural and political – must be considered
in a tourism development process and the carrying capacity must be assessed.
05) Special attention should be paid to the essential needs of the poor.
06) Tourism development must be locally anchored and all the actors involved consulted, and
cooperation must be stressed.
07) The diversity of the different tourism resorts must be recognized and the principles of sustainable
tourism development must be applied to the unique character of an area.
08) The interests, reasons and goals of the different actors for supporting a sustainable tourism
development must be understood.
09) A trade-off approach to a balanced approach between different resources must sometimes
be accepted on an operational level.
10) An assessment of the negative and positive impact on the different actors must be carried
out.