The travel and tourism sector is one major contributor to the environmental impacts of consumption and production systems worldwide. A recent critical review pointed out some weaknesses of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the travel and tourism industry. To start overcoming these obstacles, a tourist product is defined in this paper bearing in mind the life cycle perspective. A first attempt to identify specific tourist products and their categories is also made in this work in order to delimit the scope of tourism LCA, and to create a strong conceptual basis for a further definition of detailed product categories for some forms of environmental labels and declarations. Further research developments are advocated to outline product-specific guidelines (i.e. product category rules) enabling to render LCA studies in this sector comparable and robust.
Environmental labelling: definition of product categories in the travel and tourism industry
DE CAMILLIS, CAMILLO;RAGGI, Andrea;PETTI, Luigia
2010-01-01
Abstract
The travel and tourism sector is one major contributor to the environmental impacts of consumption and production systems worldwide. A recent critical review pointed out some weaknesses of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in the travel and tourism industry. To start overcoming these obstacles, a tourist product is defined in this paper bearing in mind the life cycle perspective. A first attempt to identify specific tourist products and their categories is also made in this work in order to delimit the scope of tourism LCA, and to create a strong conceptual basis for a further definition of detailed product categories for some forms of environmental labels and declarations. Further research developments are advocated to outline product-specific guidelines (i.e. product category rules) enabling to render LCA studies in this sector comparable and robust.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
