Kullapa Soratana - Supply Chain Management of Tourism Towards Sustainability

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Supply Chain Management of Tourism Towards Sustainability is a collection of approaches to drive the supply chain of the tourism industry towards sustainability. The purpose of this book is to offer guidance for students, teachers, researchers, school management, and/or corporations who are interested in applying sustainability into tourism-related activities. Students, teachers, researchers, and/or corporations can adopt the contents and the proposed integrated framework of supply chain management (SCM) and life cycle approaches (LCA) in this book as initiatives to further develop their studies or apply and implement them in practice.

The approaches discussed in this book are SCM, LCA, knowledge supply chain (KSC) model, benefit of inconvenience (BI), media biotope (MB), and the proposed integrated framework of SCM and LCA. Each approach can be adopted to improve tourism activities, tourists experiences, and regional development from a sustainability perspective. LCA (Chap..

This book also discusses tradeoff issues among the three pillars of sustainabilityenvironment, society, and economicfrom implementing sustainable tourism throughout its supply chain and provides good practices on how to keep the three pillars in balance. The issues in the sustainable development of tourism and how each approach can be incorporated in the tourism industry are presented in the five chapters as follows:

Chapter aims at introducing why sustainable development in tourism is in the spotlight and how the problems should be managed. Information on how sustainable development in the tourism sector has become a major global issue is provided. The effects of climate change, one of the key driving forces, are discussed. The approaches, which are SCM and LCA, to ease the unsustainable development situation in the tourism sector are introduced in this chapter.

Chapter consists of four main sections. The first two sections are: an introduction of life cycle approaches to inform the readers on the major benefits of life cycle approaches and steps in conducting LCA. The third section reveals examples of constructing LCA for tourism activities such as accommodation, transportation, restaurants, tour operators, and waste disposal facilities. The section aims to provide guidance on how to conduct an LCA. The fourth section discusses how LCA can be applied to each activity over the entire life cycle of a tourism service, i.e. restaurants.

Chapter is on KSC as an appropriate process to manage knowledge flow in designing an effective ICT-empowered tourism knowledge supply chain. KSC is an integration of knowledge management and supply chain management. KSC is an important process in integrating educational provisions with government and industry needs through preparing visions, minds, and skills to support regional development, which is sustainability. The tourism sector can adopt and use KSC as a platform for knowledge provision and as a domain for knowledge sharing.

Chapter discusses the design criteria of BI and communication model of MB. Both BI and MB potentially promote the social sustainability aspect of tourism. BI can be used to design tourism activities that enhance creativity and raise awareness on social sustainability. For example, some tourists prefer creating local crafts despite they can purchase similar products from souvenir shops. MB system is referred to a structure of communication media patterns in communities. The BI of MB, created by MB mediums or biotope-oriented mediums, can be used to maintain the originality and sustainability of the communities or tourist destinations.

Chapter proposed an integrated framework of LCA and SCM for tourism. The proposed LCA-SCM framework for tourism is discussed. The opportunities and caveats of LCA and SCM for tourism enterprises, such as accommodation, restaurant, and transportation, are specified.