Sustainable Tourism Indicators in Achieving Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Values: Presenting Solutions for the Devastating Effects

The tourism industry is one of the most important economic activities in the current century that has brought numerous economic and social resources to countries around the world. In addition to economic, social and cultural consequences, ecotourism development as one of the most attractive types of tourism can have significant environmental effects as well. Lack of precision, lack of development and conduction of precautionary measures in the form of guidelines, standards and continuous assessment will make these effects to have many devastating consequences in natural and human environments, and will lead to environmental instability and finally ecotourism instability. However, ecotourism as a good tool can have a global or local role in line with sustainable tourism. In addition, the ecotourism today is not often rightly oriented and is mainly defined in a way which practically takes distance from the declared standards to achieve stability and success in the sustainability process. This is a descriptive- explanatory study and has been developed using library documents.
The aim of this study was to describe the relationship between tourism concepts with sustainable developments and description of environmental problems and pollution (including air, water, soil, noise, visual and waste pollution) of unstable tourism.