1) Valuing Tourism’s Environmental Effects
a. The Importance to Tourism of a Valued Environment
b. The Potential Impacts of Tourism on the Environment
c. Market Failure and its Sources (Lack of property rights to the environment)
d. Private, Public, Club and Common Goods
e. Externalities, over-production and over-consumption
f. Negative externalities lead to over-production and over-consumption
g. Valuing Environmental Resources: Total Economic Value
h. Estimating the Non-Use Value of Environmental Amenities

2) Economic Instruments to Address Tourism’s Environmental Effects
a. Economic Instruments for Environmental Protection
b. Complementary Approaches to Environmental Management
c. Choosing Between Instruments Tourism and Climate Change
d. Policy Responses to Climate Change
e. Challenges for Tourism Policymakers.

3) Tourism and Economic Growth
a. Economic Globalization Characteristics of globalization
b. Concerns about globalization
c. Economic Growth
d. The Importance of Productivity
e. Growth-Led Tourism Versus Tourism-Led Growth
f. Does Tourism Growth Reduce Poverty?
g. Costs of Economic Growth
h. Alternative Measures of Progress

4) Sustainable Tourism Development
a. What is Meant by Sustainability?
b. Wealth, Wellbeing and Sustainability
c. ‘Weak’ and ‘Strong’ Sustainability
d. Sustaining and Enhancing Wellbeing
e. The Ecological Perspective
f. The Genuine Progress Indicator
g. Tourism and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
h. An ecological perspective on tourism stakeholder responsibilities in meeting SDGs
i. Measurement Challenges
j. Measuring stocks (wealth)
k. Measuring wellbeing
l. Measuring sustainability
m. Building a statistical base for sustainable tourism development: The MST index
n. Key Enablers of Sustainable Tourism Development

5) Conclusions and Policy