Monitoring System of Sustainable Development in Cultural and Mountain Tourism Destinations

5. CONCLUSION
For ages cognitive process becomes a part of tourism activities. But what if there is nothing 
more to experience in a destination. For this reason, in order to preserve natural, historical and 
social sources, tourism experts deal with sustainable development in destinations. Cultural and 
mountain destinations are two areas where sustainability needs to be measured as it serves as 
environmental, social and economic preservation of destination. Experts in sustainable tourism 
have defined various principles and indicators that might be applied to practice. However, for 
cultural and mountain destinations, a methodology for setting and designing sustainable tourism 
indicators lacks a list of environmental, social and economic indicators for two specific areas, i.e. 
cultural routes and mountain destinations. 
Referable to the literature review, critically, most of the previously mentioned authors do not 
provide elaborated instructions on how to exactly measure three pillars of sustainability of a 
destination. Based on the knowledge from the literature review, the integration of theoretically 
defined indicators with their practical application the on cultural and mountain destinations 
have also been missing. 
Therefore the added value of the paper lies in the creating of a specific monitoring system fo-
cused on cultural and mountain destinations. However the further research should be aimed at 
other types of tourism destinations and their specific conditions of sustainable development. 
Acknowledgement:
This paper was created at the Tomas Bata University in Zlin and was supported by Project No. IGA/
FaME/2015/035: Economic sustainability of tourism companies.
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