Measuring and evaluating the influence of cultural sustainability indicators on sustainable cultural tourism development: Scale development and validation.

ABSTRACT: In the past few decades, tourism has significantly impacted the ecological, social, and environmental dimensions, making sustainability facilitation more vital. These aspects are also regarded as the primary pillars of sustainable tourism development. Culture is the cornerstone for accomplishing sustainable tourism research and practice goals in many domains. Culture has received very little attention despite being the deeply rooted and reliable framework for human existence. As a part of cultural tourism, even Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) has been largely ignored in sustainable tourism development. Moreover, the varied sustainability dimensions do not explain cultural sustainability indicators and how these indicators influence sustainable cultural tourism development. Therefore, fi

SUBMITTER: Gaonkar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11872586 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature