Sustainable Development Essay

Sustainable development plays an important part in the hotel industry according to Accor (2014), the origins of sustainable development took place in the post-War environmental movement, which identified negative impacts of human growth and development on the environment and communities (DEFRA, 2014), and according to Bramwell and lane (1993) the growth was seen to have a major negative impact in relation to natural environment, and they added that with the growing interest in environmental issues would generate the formations of groups such a local and national movements including the green peace, friends of the earth etc., aiming to bring the heritage as well as the traditional societies to their natural habitat. From the mid 1970’s to 1980’s growth had a major consequences of growing human population in a world of limited resources, including current patterns of growth which cannot be sustained indefinitely. The term sustainable development came to notice by the United Nations as the sustainable development which will meet the needs of the actual situation without damaging the ability of future generations that can deal with their own needs (DEFRA, 2014).

And finally in the mid 1990’s the united Kingdom Government play a major part in promoting sustainable development in the UK as well as abroad including a new relationship between man’s wishes for economic growth and this growth will always remain the basis of human development but it should integrate as well its impact on the people and on the planet including the need to preserve the environment according to DEFRA (2014).

There has been a shift in the expectations and demands of people demand and expectations over the past 25 years according to Graci and Kuehnel (2010). The...

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The sustainable development not only secure the economic development it does as well secure the social and environmental protection. It is clearly that there is a positive factor in this but as DEFRA(2014) stated this can have its negative impact in today’s world, which means that the rapid development of a good living standard and travelling not forgetting the general consumer society which all resulted in fewer protection to the environment in the world today.

Fig 3. The five shared principles of sustainable development

1. living within environment limits

In this first principle the need of respecting the limits of the planet’s environment, resources and biodiversity is a must, which means that the need to improve our environment and ensure that the natural resources needed for life are unimpaired and remain so for future generations.