To the extent the concept is understood as finding a suitable balance between economic, sociocultural and environmental aspects in long-term development perspectives, it represents a holistic perspective (see e.g. Hall, Gossling, and Scott, 2015, Saarinen, 2015). Various measures have been used as indicators of successful sustainable tourism development, including increased or maintained profitability, improved environmental outcomes and dispersed community benefits (Becken and Simmons, 2008, Zeppel, 2015). Even though widely employed in policies and management and research, the usefulness of the concept of sustainable tourism has been questioned, as there are numerous examples of tourism destinations failing to meet the threshold of long-term or even medium-term sustainability (Bramwell and Lane, 2011, Buckley, 2012). Decisions that primarily serve to maintain the economic viability of tourism enterprises on a short-term basis are often given priority. What can be defined as sustainable from a local perspective can be unsustainable from a global perspective, and the question of for how long arrangements will remain sustainable rarely get an accurate response (Becken and Schellhorn, 2007, Hall, 2007).