Hospitality Sustainable Tourism 2

Question 1

What is 'responsible tourism' and how does it differ from sustainable tourism?

Accepted Answer

Responsible tourism focuses on traveler behavior, while sustainable tourism is a broader framework for destination and industry management

Answer

Responsible tourism places the emphasis on the individual traveler's behavior and choices. Sustainable tourism is a broader industry and destination management concept. Both work toward the same goals from different angles.

Question 2

What is 'carbon offsetting' in the context of sustainable travel?

Accepted Answer

Compensating for travel carbon emissions by funding equivalent carbon-reduction projects elsewhere

Answer

Carbon offsetting allows travelers and tourism businesses to compensate for unavoidable carbon emissions from flights, transportation, or hotel energy use by funding projects that reduce equivalent emissions elsewhere — such as reforestation, renewable energy, or methane capture projects.

Question 3

What is 'community-based tourism' (CBT)?

Accepted Answer

Tourism owned, managed, and operated by local communities with benefits flowing directly to residents

Answer

Community-based tourism is a model where local communities have substantial control over and ownership of tourism enterprises, ensuring that the economic benefits of tourism remain within the community. Examples include homestays, village tours, and craft cooperatives operated directly by residents.

Question 4

What is 'greenwashing' in the hospitality and tourism industry?

Accepted Answer

False or exaggerated environmental claims made by tourism businesses to appear more sustainable than they are

Answer

Greenwashing refers to misleading marketing by hotels, tour operators, or airlines that claim environmental credentials without substantive action or third-party verification. Examples include hanging a 'save water, reuse towels' sign while otherwise having no sustainability program.

Question 5

What is 'dark tourism' as a recognized niche in the tourism industry?

Accepted Answer

Travel to sites associated with death, tragedy, and historical atrocities

Answer

Dark tourism (also called thanatourism or grief tourism) refers to travel to places associated with death, suffering, tragedy, or human atrocity — such as Auschwitz, Ground Zero, Pompeii, or Chernobyl. It raises ethical questions about the commercialization of tragedy.

Hospitality and Tourism Practice Test

Hospitality and Tourism Practice Test

Hospitality Sustainable Tourism 2