La sostenibilidad en el sector turísticodel marco ambiental global al marco económico-social local

Resumo

This paper supposes a tour of synthesis and update of the general sustainable development and of the tourism sustainability. In the article we show how at present the environmental aspects, which started being the backbone of the sustainability, continue being critics to assure the sustainable development, in a way that integrate also the economic and social aspects. In addition the paper also emphasizes the importance that at present possesses the local area, besides the global one, as well as the sustainability should join with the processes linked to the social responsibility. The paper also shows how the sustainable development can be "traced" from the declarations, meetings and documents that have been happening worldwide and also in every country. All this things evidence the importance and the worry that increasingly exists brings over of the sustainable development. In the second part the paper approaches the evolution of the sustainability in the tourism, emphasizing how this possesses similar characteristics to the general sustainable development.