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The role of tourism in generating waste on islands

Last few decades the global tourism market records increasing numbers of international tourist arrivals, which positively affects to tourism destination. Since the 1990’s, there has been increased attention paid to understanding the negative impacts of tourism on the environment. Very often it is caused by increased number of tourists and unplanned tourism development. Therefore, the tourism sector try to finds the ways in which it will respond to increased higher and more specific consumers demands. At the same time, it seeks new approaches and strategies towards environmental sustainability in their management practices. To be more sustainable, the tourism industry needs to apply specific strategies to reduce its environmental footprint. Thus, sustainable tourism development becomes a paradigm shift to include a green orientation as a way to achieve these goals. As such, the concept of sustainability has become of paramount concern in tourist destinations, especially in ones with long tradition of tourism development and on isolated geographies area such as the small island communities are. Tourism produces huge amount of waste. Therefore, it is crucial to establish efficient waste management, especially on islands which have limited land space for solving this problem. The concept of green orientation in tourism involves reducing of waste and efficient waste management. The purpose of this paper is to explore and compare the widespread and importance of greening process in the tourism industry today due to reducing large environmental footprint which tourism crate, particularly focusing on how to manage waste in proper way in small tourist destinations, in this case - islands. The research has shown that tourism industry is a huge generator of waste and that is a great challenge for islands to find ways how to solve this. Even the strategies and law on waste management exist ; this problem hasn’t been solved on Croatian island jet. However, there are some positive example how it could be implemented, for example island Krk.

sustainable tourism development, greening in tourism, waste in tourism, islands, Croatia

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