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Abstract
The use of sustainable tourism indicators (STI) raises several issues, mainly because of the multiple interpretations of the concept of sustainable development, and by extension of the concept of sustainable tourism. It also brings to light incompatibilities between the needs and objectives of academics and policy-makers in developing a set of STI. The STI are then either scientifically relevant but too complex to be operational, or else they result from a political consensus, which could lead to conflicts of interest, such as in the destination branding strategy. In this paper, we argue that the trade-off between academic and policy-maker approaches to indicator development can be achieved through the development of core STI, based on the application of two sets of selection criteria to 507 expert-recognized indicators. The first set of criteria allows us to select 20 core STI, while the second set of criteria aims to match the selected indicators with a destination's policy framework in order to guarantee their usability. We illustrate the selection procedure using the Gaspésie region in Québec as a case study.
可持续性旅游指标：为政策实施和科学化认识选择标准
可持续性旅游指标（STI）的使用引出了一些问题，主要是因为可持续性发展，和延伸后的可持续性旅游的概念的多种解释。文章也指出了学者和政策制订者在发展一系列的STI时的目标和需求之间的不相配。STI不是科学化相关但是运行来讲太复杂，就是从政治化共识中产生出来，这会引起兴趣上的冲突，例如在目的地品牌战略上。在这篇文章中，我们争议学术和政策制订者对指标发展采用的方法之间的权衡是可以通过中心STI的发展来取得的，这是根据两套对507份专家认可的指标的选择标准的运用来实现的。第一套标准允许我们选择20个中心STI，而第二套标准旨在将选择的指标来迎合为了保障他们的使用而制定的目的地政策框架。我们使用魁北克的Gaspésie地区作为案例来解释了选择过程。