Sustainability as a word prevails in any business related industry. In the tourism industry, sustainability has earned mοmentum and it has been emphasized that sustainable tourism development is actually the way by which a balance, between the negative effects of tourism in the host regions and communities and the positive potential impacts of tourism in these regions, can be achieved. That means a balance regarding environmental, social and economic issues. For example, there a great number of travelers who do not show respect to the tourism destinations they are visiting, neither from an environmental perspective nor from an economic one. The purpose in this assignment is to analyze and illustrate the role of sustainable development in tourism …show more content…
As the impacts of tourism on the society, on the environment and on the economy of host regions and communities become more and more clear and given that to some extent these impacts have also some negative aspects (such as threatening or destroying the natural environment or threatening the cultural heritage of destinations) the need for exploring ways and devising strategies to maintain some kind of balance between tourism development and sustainability grows (Canavan, 2014; Saarinen, 2006). But prior to analyzing the role of sustainable development in tourism it is helpful to investigate a few definitions of the term sustainable tourism and its core principles , as these are laid in …show more content…
a) Sustainable Tourism needs to optimize the utilization of environmental resources, by focusing on preserving the biodiversity, conserving the natural resources and adopting ecological processes
b) Sustainable Tourism needs to respect the social and cultural values and protect the traditions and heritages of the host regions, while preserving the authenticity of host communities
c) Sustainable Tourism needs to promote economic growth and social well-being of the host communities through enhancing employment, providing economic opportunities, fairly distributing benefits to relevant stakeholders and helping to alleviate poverty (WTO,
(2016),” the tourism system has some important inputs from an environmental perspective which includes natural, cultural and human resources.” The system has three subsystems which are tourism retailing, destination and transport, all of which are interrelated. Within the destination subsystem, the importance of natural and cultural attractions is emphasized as the basis for attracting tourists. The outputs of the system can be both positive and negative in that tourism can both conserve and destroy nature while bringing positive and negative economic cultural changes. Another output of the tourism system that is desired by governments is tourists’ satisfaction must be guaranteed. (pp.9-10) The pollution of the sea by sewage, overcrowding of beaches, removal of coral reefs and deforestation are the ways in which the environment is being affected by tourism. Hence, the need for environmental awareness in Jamaica as the impact is a major concern to the country. Although it is damaging the environment, it brings economic benefits.
The concept of sustainable tourism is applicable to all forms of tourism in all types of destinations, including the mass tourism like Cox’s Bazar. Sustainability principles refer to the environmental, economic, and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development. Sustainable tourism requires the establishment of a suitable balance between these three dimensions to guarantee long-term sustainability of tourism development. So, it is important to create a specific guideline for all stakeholders that will be effective for Sustainable
An event should have at least one objective to be held. If it is seen as one of the ways of tourism to make the area, city or country thrive, it should be sustainable. So what is sustainability? What kind of events can be said sustainable ones? “ Sustainable tourism is tourism that meets the needs of present generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (). And also “ it does not exceed the environment, social cultural or economic carrying capacity of given destination, and the related environmental, sociocultural and economic costs are minimized while related environmental, sociocultural and economic benefits are maximized” (). So a sustainable event should ensure that next generations will be able to have the resources to survive and thrive (5), and bring benefits without destroying environment, cultures, and others. To meet the needs of present and future generations, the side of managing events should have high level goals (4). Also just carrying out an event cannot attract people and if it aims t...
Lim, C., Chong, Y., & Sutjipto, M. (2012). Creating value through sustainable business practices. European Journal of Tourism Research, 5(2), 118-128.
The book is written by three authors, Martin Mowforth, Clive Charlton and Ian Munt. Martin Mowforth is a part timer lecturer while Clive Charlton is a principal lecturer and helps to solve the problems of environment, transport, tourism and development. Ian Munt is a consultant and worked on various types of projects over the world. The book is published on year 2008, with the title of “Tourism and Responsibility” which focuses on the nature, ecotourism and ‘sustainability’ upon the recognition of the social dimension of tourism. Besides, the book mentioned the responsibility and the activities occurred in Latin America and Caribbean. The issues happened in the country also discussed in the book such as the problem of the poverty. Authors also
In 1992, Rio Earth Summit, the World Tourism Organization and the World Travel and Tourism Council published Agenda 21 which mentioned the importance of sustainable development and defined the environmental and social impacts associated with hotel operation that should be minimized (Meade and Pringle, 2001). Nowadays, hospitality operations concern more about environmental sustainability because hotel sustainability might be a unique selling point for attracting environmentally sensitive customers and add extra value of influencing the customers’ choice of vacation decisions (Sloan, Legrand and Chen, 2013). Moreover, hotels have been valued as a key trading partner in tourism, therefore, the hospitality industry has a significant
The sustainability term could be defined as an ability or capacity of something to be maintained or to sustain itself. Sustainability is about taking what we need to live now, without jeopardising the potential for people in the future to meet their needs. If an activity is said to be sustainable, it should be able to continue forever. Therefore sustainable tourism refers to tourism development that that avoids damage to the environment, economy, and culture of the locations where it take place. The aim of sustainable tourism is to ensure that development is positive for the local people, tourism companies as well as the tourists themselves. Taking such an approach of sustainable tourism development is quite beneficial and minimizes conflicts of interest.
New hotels are constructed on the seaside. The sustainability is better in tourism than through the hospitality sector. In an attempt to be more sustainable, hotels as late are becoming more eco-friendly by observing environmental standards in their architecture, interior design, managing approaches and customer services has more popular, following the traditional concerns for social and economic impacts (Anon, 2005). Plenty of hotels that have social utilization impact initiatives to be of services to local communities, enhances the well-being of the employees, and also maintain the
When the industries are on peak positions then managing diversity is a critical to competiveness. Diversity management reacts to proactive rapid change. This is the reason the sustainable tourism focuses on the cultural and the natural resources. Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting places as a tourist and trying to make and positive impact on the environment. Mainly the heritage value of the place, cultural identity of the place, the natural value of the place contributes to the destination of the tourism.
Nowadays in the rea of globalization, according to the World Tourism Organization, “seven hundred million people travelled abroad in 2003”, and the number is estimated to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. (International Labour Organization, 2005). Tourism is spreading in unusual places. A lot of people want to be in the midst of adventure. It is a vital source of revenues for the GDP of many countries. I partially agree that tourism hugely benefits the local community. This essay will discuss some of the economic, social and environment effect of tourism on the host community.
Partners for Sustainable tourism looks to correspond local need, business chances and sustainability in the tourism sector. It goes outside traditional corporate social responsibility, concentrating on how partners’ products and services can bring inventive solutions to the final recipients of the tourism projects
In recent years, tourism marketing has gone through strategic changes with the improvement in new technologies, the chase of a relationship between customers and suppliers as well as the importance of sustainability issues in marketing. Marketing Tourism reconsiders the needs of the tourists but does not overlook on the long term economic, environmental, social and cultural interests of the local population. So, it means that marketing consider both the tourist demand and effect to society as
Tourism is an important and intricate element to society. It affects economical, social, cultural and environmental elements. Tourism can be argued to have a negative impact on the environment and decrease our already depleting resources, but tourism can also be argued to be a major contributor to strengthening economies, spread cultural traditions and improve people’s lives. Tourism
The negative impacts that tourism creates can destroy the environment and all of its resources which it depends of for survival. Tourism has the prospective to create and bring useful effects on to the environment by donation the environmental protection conservation.
“A stakeholder is anyone who participates in the project or who will be affected by the results of the project, and may include…people and groups within and outside of the organization” (Brown & Hyer, 2010, p.107-108). In the article, “Stakeholders’ Contribution in Sustainable Tourism” A. Kadi, M. Jaafar, & F. Hassan (2015) seeks to explain how tourism stakeholders affect tourism destinations and the need for collaboration between all the stakeholders. After reading the article, I found that the findings supported how the stakeholders influenced tourism and the packages offered through economic impact on tourism destinations in which Kadi, Jaafar, & Hassan attempt to make known through highlighting the issues and challenges in the tourism industry.