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Legislation, regulation and licensing are inter-related tools that can be used to strengthen sustainability by setting out requirements that are compulsory and enforceable, and which lead to sanctions and penalties if they are not met. Legislation provides the authority to enforce requirements, which are defined and elaborated by regulations. Licensing is a process of checking and signalling compliance with regulations or otherwise identified obligatory standards, conveying permission to operate.
Governments are in a position to apply laws, regulations and penalties to control aspects of business development and operations and to influence people’s behaviour. This can be applied to the whole business sector and community or be more specifically targeted.
Legislation and regulations should be applied when governments deem them to be necessary. However, success requires regulations that are relevant, clear, practicable in terms of compliance and capable of being enforced.

Land use planning and development control are inter-related tools which can be used to influence the location and type of new tourism activities and to control potentially harmful development.

(UNEP/WTO, 2005)

 

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URL Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe
File A Sustainable Europe for a Better World: A European Union Strategy for Sustainable Development, COM (2001) 264 of 15.5.2001
URL BCSD Portugal
File Canada : strategic plan 2003-2005, Canadian Tourism Commission (2002)
File Convention for Biological Diversity
File Corporate Social Responsibility: A business contribution to sustainable development, COM (2002) 347 of 2.7.2002
File Decision 7/3. Tourism and sustainable development
URL ECO-LUP
URL ENDS Legal Compliance Manager
File EU "Agenda for a sustainable and competitive European tourism", 2007
URL European Action Plan "Halting the loss of Biodiversity 2010 - and beyond"
File European Commission: Communication "Basic Orientations for the Sustainability of European Tourism" COM (2003) 716 final
File European Transport Policy for 2010 : Time to Decide, COM (2001) 370 of 12.09.2001
URL Green paper "Living with climate change in Europe"
URL Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM)
File Integrated Coastal Zone Management: A Strategy for Europe, COM (2000) 547 of 27.09.2000
URL PROTALgarve - Operational Programme of the Algarve 2007 - 2012
File Packaging the Potential : a Five-year Business Strategy for Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Canada , Canadian Tourism Commisson (2001)
File Proposed England-wide Sustainable Tourism Accreditation Scheme, English Tourism Council and the Countryside Agency (2002)
File Recognition, measurement and disclosure of environmental issues in the annual accounts of companies, COM (2001/453/EC) of 30 May 2001
URL Sustainable consumption and production in the European Union
URL Sustainable tourism and Natura 2000
File Towards a Sustainable Nordic Tourism, RAMBOLL (2003)
URL UNCTADXI: statement by Portugal
HTML Document WSSD Johannesburg Plan of Implementation on Tourism
URL Web-site of the Austrian Sustainability Strategy

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