Best examples of tourism environmental management at the destinations: Integrative literature review

Abstract

The article considers the studies and researches in the best examples of tourism environmental management at the tourism destinations and the important issues that have emerged. This work is found on an integrative literature review on tourism, sustainability policy and involvement of local communities at decision-making processes which connected with the tourism environmental management. Furthermore, major 50 research themes have been categorized and research frameworks have been developed based on literature gaps. Previous studies have investigated the different reasons for adopting sustainability experience and practices, such as the local communities’ influence on environmental management, personal advantages, and knowledge of environmental problems. The findings of the article are reviewing best environmental management case studies, including Australia, Malaysia, Ecuador, South Africa etc. and using them for the future research in different countries. The originality of the research lies in giving the compressed overview on the tourism environmental management for 20-year publications. The impact of this study might provide guidance in this area and help develop the future research.