![Sample our Tourism, Hospitality and Events journals, sign in here to start your FREE access for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5950/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Tourism-Hospitality-Events.jpg"})
Abstract
Governments in many developing countries endorse sustainable tourism, despite associated practical limitations and challenges as a development strategy. Using the case of Cambodia, this paper illustrates how sustainable tourism issues in a developing country may be better understood through a systematic review of scattered relevant peer-reviewed and grey literature. This can help in identifying emergent themes and challenges, gaps in knowledge, and opportunities for future research. Analysis of 77 documents on Cambodia's sustainable tourism revealed themes and challenges relating to: (1) an emphasis on nature-based tourism (ecotourism); (2) calls for greater community engagement for sustainable outcomes; (3) stakeholder perceptions and values as drivers of tourism success; (4) cultural heritage as a key tourism attraction; and (5) foreign investment shaping Cambodia's tourism future. Unequal emphasis is given to key government policies for tourism development and there is limited practical guidance on how to realise a vision of sustainable tourism. There is a lack of consideration of how the socio-economic and cultural context affects sustainable tourism. The evidence suggests that sustainable tourism in Cambodia is questionable until fundamental economic, social capacity and policy issues are addressed, along with greater emphasis given to the tourism system's demand side.
可持续旅游和它在柬埔寨作为发展策略：系统的文献回顾
许多发展中国家的政府支持旅游业的可持续发展，尽管有相关的实践限制和作为发展战略的挑战。通过柬埔寨的例子，这篇文章解释了如何更好的通过系统地回顾分散的相关的同行评论和灰色文献来理解发展中国家旅游业的可持续发展问题。这能够在确定紧急的主题和挑战，知识差距和未来研究的机会方面提供一些帮助。77个关于柬埔寨旅游可持续发展主题和挑战的文件分析主要相关内容有：1）基于自然资源的旅游业的重要性；2）更大程度上参与可持续发展的呼吁；3）利益相关者的参与和价值作为旅游成功的驱动者；4）文化遗产作为旅游吸引力的关键；5）国外投资塑造了柬埔寨旅游业的未来。为了旅游业的发展，不平等的强调已经被政府的关键政策提出，在如何意识到旅游业可持续的视野上，目前仅有有限的实践指导。并且社会经济和文化环境如何被旅游业的可持续发展影响仍然缺乏考虑。证据表明，在柬埔寨基础经济，社会能力和政策问题被解决和对旅游系统的需求方面给予更多关注之前，柬埔寨旅游业的可持续发展仍然会是一个问题。
Acknowledgements
We gratefully thank the Australian Government funded Global Opportunities (GO) Programme of the University of the Sunshine Coast that enabled Dr Bill Carter and Vicky O’Rourke to visit Cambodia and inspired the preparation of this paper, and the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) that has enabled continued collaboration with the Royal Government of Cambodia. We especially acknowledge the assistance of the Cambodian Minister and Director General of Tourism, as well as the Provincial Governors who allowed their staff to work closely with us during our visits and for their personal insights about the status of tourism in Cambodia. We also thank Drs Christine Jacobson and Pedro Fidelman for comments on earlier drafts.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Additional information
Notes on contributors
R.W. (Bill) Carter
R.W. (Bill) Carter (PhD) is associate professor for heritage resource management with the Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast. His research focuses on environmental tourism, adaptive management, and socio-cultural change.
Sokhom Thok
Sokhom Thok is director, Department of International Cooperation and ASEAN, Ministry of Tourism, Cambodia. Apart from fostering international tourism cooperation, he has been responsible for developing community-based tourism standards within ASEAN.
Vicky O’Rourke
Vicky O’Rourke is with the Regional and Urban Planning programme at the University of the Sunshine Coast and she is a researcher with the Sustainability Research Centre. Her research focuses on planning and tourism in developing countries.
Tristan Pearce
Tristan Pearce (PhD) is a research fellow in geography with the Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast and adjunct faculty in the Department of Geography, University Guelph, Canada. His research focuses on the human dimensions of global environmental change and tourism and the environment.