Using Viable System Model for Chinese Outbound Tourist Market Sustainability

Authors

  • Tanya Arenas-Resendiz
  • Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla IPN
  • Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros IPN
  • Ana Lilia Coria-Páez IPN
  • Jacqueline Yvette Sánchez-García IPN

Keywords:

Sustainability System, Emergence, VSM, Chinese Outbound Tourism Market

Abstract

Tourism industry benefited worldwide economy providing services to Chinese Tourists who traveled to foreign in 2014 generating income by 165 billion dollars and accounting for 13% of international tourism. Realizing this market’s acquisition means growth opportunities for destinations; as well as the added difficulty in services nature of being unsteady, improvable and involving many factors. This article reaches the assembling of chinese outbound tourism market sustainability through the premise of a different perspective for conceptualizing, designing and delivering tourism services as part of a whole socio-ecological system; and sets out a reflection on sustainable responses to some emergencies derived from the increasing tourist activity of the chinese outbound market system.

 

As examples of a problematic situation are augmenting infrastructure demand, transport and public services in peak season that exceeding load capacity generates negative results for residents and tourists; repercussions on wildlife by large tourist flows during critical moments of migration, breeding or rearing; impacts on local cultures due to the encounter between contrasting lifestyles.

 

Therefore, the opportunity to expand choices grounded on the convenience of systemic approach for sustainable tourism study and decision-making. The outcome is the Chinese Outbound Market System diagnosis and teleology, the determination of recursive levels, interrelations and conflicts; as well as the systemic integration between it’s elements using Viable System Model to configure a holistic construct composed of relevant subsystems oriented to viability and sustainability.

 

It is concluded that tourism planning that omits sustainable character, reduces social benefits severely with consequences not only ecologically harmful, but also economically self-destructive. In that way it could be possible to confront currently systemic socio-ecological issues.

Author Biographies

Tanya Arenas-Resendiz

PhD. Student of System Engineergin program at Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica. IPN, México.

Coordinator at Grupo de Investigación en Sistémica y Turismo (GIST).

Ricardo Tejeida-Padilla, IPN

Professor and Researcher of Instituto Politécnico Nacional / México.

Coordinator at Grupo de Investigación en Sistémica y Turismo (GIST).

Oswaldo Morales-Matamoros, IPN

Professor and Researcher of Instituto Politécnico Nacional / México.

Reseacher at Grupo de Investigación en Sistémica y Turismo (GIST).

Ana Lilia Coria-Páez, IPN

Professor and Researcher of Instituto Politécnico Nacional / México.

Reseacher at Grupo de Investigación en Sistémica y Turismo (GIST).

Coordinator at PhD Gestión y Política Pública en Innovación program.

Jacqueline Yvette Sánchez-García, IPN

PhD. Student of System Engineergin program at Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica. IPN, México.

Coordinator at Grupo de Investigación en Sistémica y Turismo (GIST).

Published

2017-08-25