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Sustainable Tourism: A Case Study on Salt Spring Island

GSTF Journal on Business Review

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Title Sustainable Tourism: A Case Study on Salt Spring Island
 
Creator OuYang, Huixuan
Liu, Sixin
 
Description Over the past few decades, tourism hasbecome one of the mainstay industries for manycommunities. Salt Spring Island, an island thesouth of Vancouver Island, is no exception to thebenefits of tourism. Sustainable tourism is anecessary and useful pattern to Salt Spring Island.Under this perspective, there are some challengesthat exist on Salt Spring Island regarding thetourism industry. Seasonality and inconvenienttransportation are the major challenges, forseasonality will cause unstable revenue and underorunemployment issues, which will affectresidents’ quality of life; the inconvenienttransportation will not only influence the locals’daily life, but also reduce tourists’ interest intravelling. The paper contains three sections: thechallenges that exist on Salt Spring Island tourismindustries, the measures are using on Salt SpringIsland, and innovative approaches from outside theregion to help Salt Spring Island to improve itstourism development and sustainability. Despitethe local people’s efforts to come up with solutionsto the issues, these solutions cannot solve theproblems because these solutions do not addressthe root of the problems. Therefore, the authorssuggest three innovations to solve these twoproblems, including building greenways andautomatic rental bicycle system, creating a themefor events, and developing wellness tourism.
 
Publisher GSTF Journal on Business Review (GBR)
 
Date 2017-12-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/gbr/article/view/765
 
Source GSTF Journal on Business Review (GBR); Vol 3 No 1 (2013): Journal on Business Review (GBR)
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://dl6.globalstf.org/index.php/gbr/article/view/765/708
 
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