Sustainable Tourism Challenges in the Philippines

This assignment examines the concept of sustainable tourism and its implementation in the Philippines. It highlights various challenges hindering sustainable tourism development, including high investment costs, increasing marine pollution, a growing population, and issues like uneducated populations, security concerns, rising taxes, and reduced living standards. The assignment also provides historical context on the evolution of tourism, tracing it from nomadic food-seeking to pilgrimage tourism and modern forms.

In the early age, cultural aspects, learning languages and travelling challenges restricted (Capacci, Scorcu and Vici, 2015). In 14 century
Christopher Columbus sailed westward and vasco da gama cruised to country for earn money then business travel has been integral part of
tourism industry(Cave and Brown 2012).
Early tourism started with Nomads who travelled around the world in search of
food and shelter. Main intension of this traveller is to gathered food and traded around the world and gave rise to the barter system (Capacci,
Scorcu and Vici, 2015). 1500 BC is marked as the era when the Europeans visited pyramids and thus developed the tourism for pilgrimage. Early
tourism started with Nomads who travelled around the world in search of food and shelter. Main intension of this traveller is to gathered food
and traded around the world and gave rise to the barter system (Capacci, Scorcu and Vici, 2015). 1500 BC is marked as the era when the
Europeans visited pyramids and thus developed the tourism for pilgrimage.
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN PHILIPPINES
Concept – Sustainable tourism is a modern concept
which lays emphasis on development of a particular
destination without providing any kind of negative
impact on society and environment (Schaper, 2016).
OTHER FACTORS HINDERING THE SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENTS
ARE:
Uneducated population, Issues related to security, Increasing taxes , Reduction in standard of living
FACTORS HINDERING THE
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
DEVELOPMENTS
 HUGE INVESTMENTS IN
DEVELOPMENTS
 INCREASING POLLUTION IN THE
SEA (Uysal and Williams, 2013)
Sustainability is a concept
which gain huge responses
and popularity and due to
this reason Philippine adopt
this approach. There are lots
of challenges which are
faced by government in