Tourism, sustainability and sustainable development Provide a brief summary of the article Explain why you feel it is relevant Pose a question from the article. The question can be about the findings, the research method, or the data analysis for example, but needs to be related to the week’s topic. This week 's topic is sustainability principles, which is the foundation of sustainable tourism. It is important to understand the origin, definition, evolution of the concept, and the issues of sustainability and sustainable development to better understand sustainable tourism. The article is entitled Challenges to Sustainable Development in Island Tourism. It looks at the island of Krk, the second largest island in the Adriatic islands. The …show more content…
Personally I think that we should charge as much as the market can bare. However, that is a hard number I think to determine. Looking at the social cost of carbon chart (EPA) I would go with the most expensive number they determined per year. In 2015 this was $120. However, I think we could perhaps have prices self regulate them. Australia created a national water market (http://www.nationalwatermarket.gov.au/) which acts like a stock for water. “Having a maket that everybody has access to, no matter how much money or how much land they have, means there is an equilibrium that’s naturally found within the market” (Peterson 2015). I believe this could be adapated. Have the government set alloted use of use carbon each year. Then every year it could have some people sell their carbon stocks back to the government, thereby deceasing overall stock available. Also allowing companies to still trade carbon stock to each other. Alternately perhaps prices could be set auction style. Every year the government says we have x amount of carbon, it will be auctioned of in blocks, start the bidding. This would also have the added benefit of creating more money for the government which could be then put back into other
Tourism has been described as a global activity with local implications. We are all aware of the tourism potential to boost economic diversity and growth within their regions. The decentralized nature of t...
Since Hawaii’s acceptance as a U.S. state in 1959, tourists have flocked from all over the world to see its natural beauty (50states.com). Tourism in Hawaii has grown for over 50 years, as a statistic from the Hawaii Tourism Authority states that an influx of 8,941,394 tourists visited Hawaii in 2016. But as the number of tourist visits rises, so do the issues associated with tourists, leading Hawaii’s government to juggle between the needs of the natives and businesses in Hawaii. The tourist industry rakes in an amount of $15.6 billion annually, and strives to continue growing (Hawaii Tourism Authority). It plans to continue growing by fighting to repeal the travel ban, by keeping the homeless
My choice for this particular tourism destination is an island off of the coast of the huge Canadian metropolis of Vancouver called Vancouver Island. This particular island was ranked second in 2009 on Condé Nast Traveler’s Reader’s Choice Awards “Top Islands of North America;” Vancouver Island is a relatively large island with a population of 759,366 inhabitants. It is home to British Columbia’s capital city, otherwise known as Victoria. The island is separated from the mainland by four different straits; the Johnstone Strait, the Queen Charlotte Strait, the Strait of Georgia, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Considering that Vancouver Island is located on the west coast and on the Pacific Ocean. Due to its location it has many beach resorts that allow tourists to enjoy many activities like surfing, whale-watching, fishing, hiking, and scuba diving. An example of one of these resorts is Tofino, which is a major surfing hot-spot that is a definite place to check out while on the island. Also, Vancouver Island is surrounded by acres of protected ancient rainforest which gives tourist an amazing experience and mixture of wildlife. Different plants and animals emerge throughout the seasons, so regardless of which one is chosen, everyone will enjoy the atmosphere.
In the space below, describe the type of research method that the article authors used in conducting their study and explain why it was well suited for an investigation of their topic (Ex: individual or group interview, case study, laboratory controlled or naturalistic observation; administration of psychological tests). Refer back to the course textbook chapter on research methods for a review of method types and their purposes.
Discuss the concept of sustainability. What ethical principles are parts of a sustainable lifestyle? Why should we consider sustainability as a guiding principle of our environmental philosophy?
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...
The aim of this essay is to carefully examine the existing resources of tourism within the destination their potential and weakness, SWOT and PEST analysis, statistics of tourist visiting and comparing those numbers and their demographic factors so on. Moreover the objectives of this essay is to discuss and me...
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.
This essay is the respond to the Local Council Member who has wrong idea about a common archetype of adventure tourist. This misconception based on ignorance of current tourism industry, could potentially be a dangerous for local economy and development. The local authority must be well informed about present conditions with the tourism market, before they will make a far reaching decisions about the development direction in this industry. Currently, there are many organisations whose monitoring an international tourism business and this knowledge supposed to be good use for our common good.
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.
The sustainable development of tourism requires a continue review of impacts of tourism activity on the area concerned but their lies a shortage of such type of assessment of programmes or policies from both government as well as private stakeholders. In Kurukshetra from concerned authorities.
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.
It is a well-noted fact that tourists from the developed world, or rich western nations, are in favour of visiting unspoilt natural environments and places steeped in tradition. However, Lea (1988) regards such attractions as being a sign of underdevelopment and rarely tolerated by the host nations just because they meet with foreign approval of visitors. Instead, it is the priority of the respective governments to raise living standards to acceptable levels, which means modernisation and the implementation of various infrastructures. Nevertheless, if administered effectively mass tourism could provide a form of sustainable development by meeting the needs of the present without compromising those of the future.
“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.