Impacts of Sustainability The data collected using a mixed-method approach will be discussed within the framework of the 'pillars of sustainability' (GSTC 2018) which the UN Global Sustainability Tourism Criteria (GSTC ) have verified as important for providing a lens for identifying the level of sustainability at a destination and therefore seemed appropriate to the impacts that the Hay Festival has made on the town of Hay Sustainability The current debate on climate change and subsequent issues of economic development and economic equity have brought sustainability of tourism products to the fore (Jenkins & Shrder 2013) The Hay Festival has attempted to embrace sustainability and, furthermore, the variety and array of scientific publications and authors at the festival gives gravitas to this area of concern It is not surprising that the festival states that: 'Hay Festival has developed a programme of managing and mitigating the environmental impact of creating a live festival with the focus on energy, waste, transport, procurement and venues' (Hay Festival 2018a) Sustainability, although in its ascendance in 2003, was somewhat nascent when the first data collection was completed (2003) without the prominence it now commands The following discussion on the four pillars of sustainability explores these

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