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Overtourism, Environmental Degradation and Governance in Small Islands with Special Reference to Malta

In: Shaping the Future of Small Islands

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  • Lino Briguglio

    (University of Malta)

  • Marie Avellino

    (University of Malta)

Abstract

This chapter briefly reviews the literature on tourism carrying capacity, sustainable tourism and overtourism, three concepts interlinked with each other, and are often used to stress the costs of tourism development as well as the need for good environmental governance. In the literature, environmental degradation is viewed as one of the downsides of tourism. The chapter presents an overview of the Maltese tourist industry and reports on a survey relating to overtourism in Malta. The results of the survey indicate that most respondents were of the view that overtourism exists in Malta leading to environmental degradation, and this in spite of the lip-service given to sustainable tourism in official government policy statements.

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  • Lino Briguglio & Marie Avellino, 2021. "Overtourism, Environmental Degradation and Governance in Small Islands with Special Reference to Malta," Springer Books, in: John Laing Roberts & Shyam Nath & Satya Paul & Yeti Nisha Madhoo (ed.), Shaping the Future of Small Islands, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 301-322, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-15-4883-3_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-4883-3_17
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