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Applying Systems Thinking to Sustainable Golf Tourism

Boston College

This article examines the issues and criticisms concerning golf, tourism, and the environment and considers how golf—tourism—environment relationships might achieve economic well-being for a region while avoiding vicious cycles of destruction to local environments and the quality of life of local residents. The examination proposes the use of systems thinking, cause mapping, and system dynamics modeling and simulations of golf, tourism, and environmental relationships to help achieve workable solutions agreeable to all stakeholders. Sustainable relationships that include golf, tourism, and environmental objectives require crafting government policies via stakeholder participation of all parties that such relationships affect—recognizing and enabling this requirement needs to be done explicitly—to reduce conflicts among stakeholders and avoid system failures.

Key Words: sustainable • tourism • cause map • system dynamics • golf

This version was published on November 1, 2009

Journal of Travel Research, Vol. 48, No. 2, 205-215 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0047287509332335


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