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Municipalities and Sustainable Tourism: Challenges, Requirements and Added Value

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Municipalities as well as companies are currently addressed by their stakeholders to report their (environmental, social and economic) impacts. If municipalities are following the ideas of the Agenda 21, that are based on the results of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro (1992) when focusing on sustainable tourism, they are facing a gap due to missing indicators focusing on topics in the field of sustainable tourism and boundaries of the sustainability report. The analyzed sustainability reporting guidelines, such as the Global Reporting Initiative 3.1 or the United Nations Global Compact, lack to support municipalities due to missing indicators and support in defining the sustainability report’s boundaries. This chapter will indicate challenges, requirements and added value for municipalities with respect to sustainable tourism, by extending current sustainability guidelines based on a literature analysis and interviews done in the project “Next Generation CEMIS for Environmental, Energy and Resource Management” (IT-for-Green).

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Acknowledgments

This work is part of the project IT-for-Green (Next Generation CEMIS for Environmental, Energy and Resource Management). The IT-for-Green project is funded by the European regional development fund (grant number W/A III 80119242). The authors thank for the support.

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  1. Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Ammerländer Heerstr 114–118, 26129, Oldenburg, Germany

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    Jorge Marx Gómez

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Solsbach, A., Rapp, B. (2014). Municipalities and Sustainable Tourism: Challenges, Requirements and Added Value. In: Funk, B., Niemeyer, P., Gómez, J. (eds) Information Technology in Environmental Engineering. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36011-4_13

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