Annotated Bibliography of sustainable tourism Article 2022

Annotated Bibliography of sustainable tourism
Executive Summary
This annotated bibliography on sustainable tourism aims at different aspects of that
tourism by consulting five contemporary journals on this subject. Sustainable tourism is
considered as the latest trend of tourism for the people, who have biospheric-altruistic
value orientation. The selected journals are analyzing different aspects of sustainable
tourism including- a) hotel development as per the parameter of that tourism;
b)comparative analysis of different scholarly article in this segment of tourism published
from 2008 to 2017; c) exploring scope of education in sustainable tourism at Australia at
the tertiary institutions; d) comprehensive review of contemporary literatures of
sustainable tourism with its application and framework; and e) consumer behavior of the
target audience of sustainable tourism to identify acceptable communication style. All
these journals are highlighting different consequential aspects of sustainable tourism to
ensure value addition in this segment of tourism with critical analysis to project future
path of studies in this domain of business curriculum. Sustainable tourism is newer
concept of tourism, which differs from traditional concept of tourism. Hence, this
segment of tourism needs extensive research to empower the stakeholders about future
application of different strategies related to this industry. It is evident from the journals
that there are different scopes prevailing in this segment of tourism related to
identification of target audience, process of enhancing awareness of people, and
attracting bigger number of people to this segment, either in the form of entrepreneurs
or in the form of target audience turned-to customers. These journals project enough
impact on sustainable tourism in different fields of academic interest including its
business possibility with special customization for making this type of tourism well
accepted within the stakeholders by featuring fruitful avenues of transformation.
Sustainable tourism is the future of tourism to maintain environmental balance of the
planet. The sooner the stakeholders are aware and convinced with this concept, the
better it is for global livelihood. Personal reflection statement is given in the last
paragraph of each journal
Journal 1
Masa’deh, R., Nasseef, M. A., Sunna, C., Suliman, M., & Albawab, M. (2017). The
Effect of Hotel Development on Sustainable Tourism Development. International
Journal of Business Administration , 8 (4 (special Issue)), 16-33.
This research article is aimed at examination of the effect of hotel development
considering different socio-economic and environmental factors to ensure
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development of sustainable tourism in Jordan. The literature review of this study
had focused on the direction of tourism by developing economic, socio-cultural
and physical infrastructure to ensure development in regional level. Environment
is considered with lesser priority, as the above developments can only support
issue of sustainability in tourism. The research methodology considered for this
study is based on variables of literatures of ecotourism. For this study samples
were selected from different employees of hotels at Aqaba, Jordan totaling to
2384 employees as per data from Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. This
sample was served with questionnaire to respond.
I believe the results shown by this study had revealed that there was no sign of
significant difference of hotel industry regarding implementation of sustainable
tourism as per demographic variants. I also found that this study infers with the
introduction of latest technology is required for hotel industry to implement
sustainable tourism.
Journal 2
Qian, J., Shen, H., & Law, R. (2018). Research in Sustainable Tourism: A Longitudinal
Study of Articles between 2008 and 2017. Journal of Sustainable Tourism , 10
(3), Article No.s 590.
This research study has the objective of exploring different researches made on
sustainable tourism from 2008 to 2017 with longitudinal aspect. To serve this
purpose, the researchers had selected six main themes to focus on current trend
in research of sustainable tourism with subsequent guide for future studies. The
journals selected for this purpose are from Journal of Sustainable Tourism and
the considered numbers for this study are 599 journals with 1694 times citation in
total. Six major themes considered for this study are: volunteer tourism, policy
tools, native tourism, environmental change, behavioral studies, and reduction of
poverty.
I believe that limitations of this study are defined by the consideration of single
source of journal as Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and not considering other
source of tourism journals, which also gives priority to the subject of sustainable
tourism. I also found that other limitation prevails in different methods applied for
these researches, as those methods are to be investigated for its worth of
acceptability.
Journal 3
Schweinsberg, S., L.Wearing, S., & McManus, P. (2013). Exploring sustainable tourism
education in business schools: The honours program. Journal of Hospitality and
Tourism Management , 20, 53-60.
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