Assessing Tourism Development from Sen’s Capability Approach

Ecological Capability for Tourism in Tonekabon Forests

Aims & Backgrounds: Identifying tourism development capacities is an undeniable priority in any country, especially in developing countries. There are various methods for determining such zones. Given the sensitivity of forest ecosystems to human interference, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the ecological potential of Tonekabon forests. Methodology: To evaluate the ecological potentia...

Entrepreneurship and Human Development A Capability Approach

We provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development. The framework is provided by the capabilities approach (CA). Hence we extend not only the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship in development, but the reach of the CA into entrepreneurship. From a CA view, entrepreneurship is not only a production factor, or a means to an end, as is often taken to be the case by economists, bu...

Strategy development in tourism destinations: a DEA approach

The aim of the paper is to introduce an application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for benchmarking the efficiency of (tourism) service production processes on the level of tourism destinations. After a brief discussion of the latest benchmarking research studies in tourism, an efficiency model for tourism service processes will be developed (Parasuraman 2002). The latter postulates simulta...

" tourism development consequences, a system approach"

tourism industry, like every other phenomenon, could have positive & negative impacts upon our society. there is no doubt regarding the importance of tourism, but the knowledge about the phenomenon itself and its consequences must keep pace with the increasing amount of tourists and growth in areas devoted to tourism. the effects of tourism must be considered within a complex web of economical,...

The Capability Approach: Its Development, Critiques and Recent Advances