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Tackling Water and Waste Management Challenges Within the Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A Sustainable Development Goals Perspective

This paper reviewed water and waste management challenges specific to tourism and hospitality industries, examining how hotels, resorts, and tourism infrastructure generate and mismanage water and solid waste. It proposed strategies for sustainable waste management within these high-impact sectors.

2024 Water 8 citations
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A Sustainable Development Planning Model for Managing

Researchers developed a Sustainable Development Planning (STD) model to address overtourism by optimising tourism sustainability through multi-objective optimisation, using Pearson correlation and regression analyses to identify key factors affecting revenue, environmental pressure, and infrastructure pressure. Validated in Juneau and Barcelona using genetic algorithms, the model determined optimal tourist numbers, tax allocation, and revenue targets, demonstrating its potential as a practical planning tool for sustainable tourism management.

2025
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The Nexus between Tourism Activities and Environmental Degradation: Romanian Tourists’ Opinions

Researchers used structural equation modeling to analyze Romanian tourists' perceptions of the environmental impacts of tourism activities, finding significant relationships between tourist circulation, accommodation, entertainment, and environmental degradation including waste generation, water pollution, and biodiversity loss.

2021 Sustainability 44 citations
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Analyzing the linkage among CO2 emissions, economic growth, tourism, and energy consumption in the Asian economies

Researchers analyzed the long-run relationships between economic growth, tourism, energy use, and CO2 emissions in Asian economies from 1995–2017, finding evidence for the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis and that tourism significantly contributes to environmental degradation, with a coefficient of 0.132 linking tourism growth to increased carbon emissions across the region.

2021 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 90 citations
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The Progressive Correlation Between Carbon Emission, Economic Growth, Energy Use, and Oil Consumption by the Most Prominent Contributors to Travel and Tourism GDPs

Researchers applied panel autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) modelling to data from 18 leading tourism-GDP countries spanning 1995-2019, finding that economic growth, energy use, and oil consumption positively drove carbon emissions, while tourist arrivals showed a modest negative association with emissions in both the long and short run.

2022 Frontiers in Environmental Science 18 citations
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Research trajectory on tourism policy: a bibliometric overview

Researchers conducted a bibliometric overview of the research trajectory on tourism policy using the Scopus database from 1976 onward, mapping the intellectual structure, growth trends, and geographic distribution of scholarship in the field. The analysis identified key themes, prolific authors, and evolving research priorities across nearly five decades of tourism policy literature.

2023 European journal of tourism, hospitality and recreation 3 citations
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Assessing the Environmental Impact of Plastic Pollution in Tourism: A Bibliometric Analysis

This review used bibliometric analysis to map research trends on the environmental impact of plastic pollution in tourism-dependent regions, identifying leading academic disciplines, influential authors, and key themes in the literature.

2025 CABI eBooks
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Analysis on the Sustainable Development Strategy of Fast Fashion Company

This study examines sustainable development strategies for global fast fashion companies, systematically analysing environmental and social challenges caused by the industry's resource-intensive and wasteful practices.

2025 Academic journal of management and social sciences
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Adopting Digital Tools & Technology to Evolve Sustainable Tourism at World Heritage Sites: Case Studies from India and Greece

This study explores how digital technologies can improve sustainable tourism management at World Heritage Sites in India and Greece. The paper is focused on tourism management and technology rather than environmental pollution.

2022 4 citations
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International Marine Tourism

Not relevant to microplastics — this bibliometric analysis examines trends in international marine tourism research in the context of sustainable development, with no substantive focus on plastic or microplastic pollution.

2023 Pomorstvo 11 citations
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Tourism and Hospitality Research Trends in South Asia: A Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis from 1992-2021

Not relevant to microplastics — this is a bibliometric analysis of tourism and hospitality research trends in South Asia from 1992 to 2021, with no connection to microplastic pollution.

2024 Journal of Scientometric Research 3 citations
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Spatiotemporal Evolution Characteristics and Obstacle Factors of the Coordinated Development between the Tourism Industry and Ecological Security

Researchers constructed an evaluation index system to measure the coordinated development between the tourism industry and ecological security in Zhejiang Province, China, analysing spatiotemporal evolution characteristics and identifying key obstacle factors. Findings revealed that tourism expansion initially exerts a coercive pressure on ecological security, with significant spatial heterogeneity shaped by population density and economic activity.

2025
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Understanding circularity in tourism

This review examines the application of circular economy principles to tourism, finding that the sector's seasonal nature and service-dominant logic create distinct challenges for reducing waste and virgin resource consumption compared to manufacturing-focused circular economy models.

2022 Society and Economy 23 citations
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Voluntourism as an Effort to Realize Sustainable Tourism to Reduce Waste in the Ocean

This review examined how volunteer tourism (voluntourism) initiatives engage tourists in ocean waste cleanup as part of sustainable tourism development. Community-based cleanup activities are an important complement to policy and industrial solutions for reducing ocean plastic pollution.

2023 Jurnal Global & Strategis
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An Empirical Study on Metaverse Tourism Marketing in Emerging Markets

This paper is not about microplastics; it is an empirical study on metaverse-based tourism marketing models and their potential to transform destination management in emerging markets.

2026 Tourism
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A Global Perspective on Sustainable Show Cave Tourism

Researchers reviewed the global state of show cave tourism, which attracts over 70 million visitors annually and generates roughly 2 billion euros in economic activity, and found that international sustainability guidelines issued in 2013 are still not widely applied, especially in developing countries. Expanding responsible cave tourism could support local economies while protecting these fragile underground ecosystems.

2022 Geoheritage 69 citations
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Investigating the Role of Tourists and Impact of Knowledge, Behaviour, and Attitude Towards Plastic Waste Generation

Researchers surveyed tourists to assess how their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior influence plastic waste generation at outdoor recreation sites, finding that awareness gaps drive littering and that circular economy approaches could convert tourist-generated waste into local economic opportunity.

2022 Circular Economy and Sustainability 21 citations
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Study on the coupling coordination effect and dynamic relationship between tourism development and the ecological environment: a case study of Hainan Island

This study examined the coupling relationship between tourism development and ecological environment protection on Hainan Island, China, which has national strategic significance as a Free Trade Port. The research found that coordinating the two subsystems is critical for sustainable high-quality development on the island.

2024 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6 citations
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Exploring Sustainable Development Goal Research Trajectories in Small Island Developing States

This study maps research trends in small island developing states and their alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, finding that environmental sustainability and ocean health receive the most attention. While not focused specifically on microplastics, it highlights that small island nations face outsized environmental pressures including marine pollution that can affect local food systems and human health.

2024 Sustainability 32 citations
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Water pollution generated by tourism: Review of system dynamics models

This systematic review used system dynamics modeling to analyze how tourism contributes to water pollution, particularly from plastics. The study developed a framework connecting economic and environmental factors driving tourism-related contamination of water ecosystems. The findings emphasize that integrated strategies combining environmental education, sustainable management practices, and proactive policy planning are essential for reducing tourism-induced water pollution.

2023 Heliyon 59 citations
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Textilien und nachhaltige Entwicklungsziele

This article examines the role of textiles in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, discussing how the textile industry simultaneously contributes to economic development while creating significant environmental burdens including microfiber pollution and resource consumption.

2024 Österreichische Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft 1 citations
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The involvement of marine tourism companies in CSR: the case of the island of Tenerife

Researchers surveyed marine tourism companies on Tenerife Island to assess their corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement, finding that companies generally perform well on environmental management and innovation but show weak collaboration with public authorities in policy-making — a gap important for achieving sustainable ocean tourism governance.

2021 Environment Development and Sustainability 15 citations
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Success factors for effective plastic avoidance in tourism: a German consumer study with focus on beach holidays

This German consumer survey investigated what factors make plastic reduction initiatives successful in tourism settings, particularly for beach holidays. Results showed consumers expect holiday organizers to take the lead on plastic prevention and respond positively to visible sustainability measures by hotels and resorts.

2023 Environment Systems & Decisions 1 citations
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Increasing Attention to Sanitary and Hygienic Conditions and the Environment in the Area of Ecotourism Facilities

This paper discusses the growing importance of maintaining sanitary and hygienic conditions at ecotourism facilities in the context of rising environmental pollution and accumulating household and technical waste. The authors emphasize human responsibility for environmental degradation and the need for greater ecological awareness in tourism development.

2023 American Journal Of Applied Science And Technology