Sustainable Tourism Indicators for the Coastal Places. State of Research

This paper examines the current state of research in sustainable tourism development as it pertains to these indicators toward the sustainability of a tourist destination. A Substantial amount of literature exists regarding the problems involved in operationalizing the concepts of sustainable development and tourism. A key objective of Environmental Indicators for Tourism, is to focus on the indicators related to the Materials Flows and Consumption, to facilitate the communication of environmental information between the different decision-makers. The main objective of further research, is to develop this kind of indicators to measure the current state of a system (visitors, residents, consumption) and monitor its evolution in a period, to reduce environmental impacts deriving from the construction sector deriving from the construction sector linked to the tourist activity by the consumption patterns during the building use phase.