Indicator System for Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable development of tourist destinations can be monitored via various topic areas, which can be handled by defining, operationalizing and assessing hundreds of possible indicators. The work initially carried out in this area by ASTO is based on the World Tourism Organization methodology, presented in the document ‘Indicators of Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations’. As an integrated approach to the diverse topics on the sustainability of the Alentejo tourist destination is a complex activity in constant development, in the first phase of analysis, ASTO decided to prioritize the following 11 topics: