Economic Development: Analysis and Plan for Tourism at Clipper Bay

This report analyzes tourism at Clipper Bay and develops a plan for economic development in the region. It explores infrastructure and superstructure development to attract new visitors and discusses the potential advantages and disadvantages of tourism growth. The report also addresses the socio-cultural and environmental impacts of development.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Aim of this work is to analyze tourism at clipper bay and develop a plan on how to develop the
region for purposes of attracting new visitors into the area.it aims at planning the town and trying
to revitalize sectors like infrastructure and superstructure to support the industry so as to make
the stay of tourism comfortable. Development of infrastructure such as roads, electricity,
sewerage and water boost the stay of tourists. superstructure developments facilitate the normal
and enjoyable stay of tourists in the area. superstructure includes things like washrooms and
hotels. The town of clipper bay is a small town with a population of 5000 residents. The area
around this place is not productive and can’t support other economic activities in the area. The
purpose of this report then is to develop other sectors of this economy by exploring and opening
up the area by developing infrastructure. The main economic activity of the residents of clipper
bay is fishing and craftwork. Women also participate in weaving works. The government should
therefore try as much to educate the resident of the town so that they can acquire employability
skill to work as hotel attendants and know how to hosts the increasing number of incoming
visitors. This report seeks to address this issues.it will also addresses economy, cultural and
environmental advantages and disadvantages of this development.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................1
APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT...........................................................................................................1
APPROACH THROUGH CONSULTATION........................................................................................1
INFRASTRUCTURE..................................................................................................................................5
SUPERSTRUCTURE:................................................................................................................................6
PARTICIPANTS:........................................................................................................................................6
POTENTIAL ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES FOR THE GROWTH OF TOURISM AT CLIPPER BAY. 7
POTENTIAL ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGES FOR THE GROWTH OF TOURISM AT CLIPPER
BAY............................................................................................................................................................7
POTENTIAL SOCIO-CULTURAL ADVANTAGES OF GROWTH OF TOURISM ON THE LOCAL
RESIDENTS OF CLIPPER BAY...............................................................................................................8
POTENTIAL SOCIAL-CULTURAL DISADVANTAGES OF RISE IN TOURISM AT CLIPPER BAY.
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POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISADVANTAGES DUE TO RISE IN TOURISM AT CLIPPER
BAY............................................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES:.........................................................................................................................................11

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INTRODUCTION
economy development meant to acquire and develop new area and harness its resources. If an
area is not developed, it leads to depletion of resources. according to Cunningham (2005)
development is based on: rise in populace, change in infrastructure and contamination which has
led to change in mindset. The Clipper Bay has a population of 5000 with three generations that
has a lot of potential to grow the region and their main source of livelihood is fishing and they
have rich cultural heritage. Given a budget of $50M to be used to develop to uplift the region and
bring forth sound developments in sustainable manner while conserving the environment of the
region and to provide employment for the growing population. The process of growing the
region is so hard but it comes with a lot of benefits like increased interaction, revenues, increased
incomes, increased in business activities and increased cultural preservation.
APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT.
APPROACH THROUGH CONSULTATION
Taking into account the need of economic development of an area, we need to develop the area
based on those needs while keeping the culture of the community from decline.it is therefore
necessary to plan the development of the area in a sustainable manner. This will be done by
elevating roads, businesses and information technology. If this is done, it will change the area a
great deal. Barber (2003)
A very good and sustainable approach is necessary through planning and involvement of the
local residents and other stakeholders.
1. Shared Dream: vision of development should be shared among different relevant
stakeholders like community, government and business men and other interested group.
2. Group leaders: this will hasten the level of development set they are the one with
knowledge of the area and can therefore plan well on development issues and can
overcome the problems during implementation
3. Partnership: groups that intend to make partnership companies and private sector should
all come on board.
4. Public participation: they should involve locals and other interested parties.

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5. After setting vision, consultation on development of plan should be started.
6. Prospective sector: pointing and coming up of the key potential sector to be develop is
key to development in the area. This area has a lot of ability to develop its key
development sectors like fishing and farming. Developing this and including tourism
boost the economy of clipper bay.
7. The consultation to be conducted through meetings, talks, exhibitions and committees.
a. use of comparative advantage, CBA or ROI analyses to clearly identify an industry to
support economic revitalization of the town.
topography and location favors conduct of fishing activities because.
 Unproductive Land
 Oceanic Area
 Fishing activities
 Tree covers
 Attractive rocks.
The development of the area can be best analyzed through comparative advantage theory
between industries of same kind. fishing and any other can be used egg farming.
It is assumed that each single item will carry 1 unit of cost equating to 1M. the following
stages will be highlighted to set up the sector.
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Items Rate
1 Plot $1 M
2 Manual work $1 M
3 Expertise $1 M
4 Implements $1 M
5 Industrial $1 M
6 Advertising $1 M
7 Marketing $1 M
Aggregate $7 M
Grand total estimated to be $7 M.

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Existing development will only need to be marketed and advertised to develop it further
whereas the new industry need all steps to come to the developed state. skilled labor and
the unskilled one differs in production as follows, skilled can earn 10 items an hour while
the unskilled can earn 5 items when trained through CBA as shown.
Industry Items/hrs. items/day 10hrs
Fishing 10 100
Farming 5 50
It is noted that fishing brings a lot of revenue than farming and this was promoted during
planning stage
b. Sustainable approach to tourism
Concept of seasonal and off seasonal approaches comes enduring seasonal approach, beach
tourist and fresh fishes and festivals are promoted, this brings in a lot of revenues during
summer while off season approach includes hiking and access of the local markets and this
happen on winter. Incomes from this activity are reused in the development of the region so
that tourism can be self-sustaining.
The Clipper Bay has an environment that is varied, that is it has an ocean and forest. Ocean
protects the marine life while the forest protects wild animals, this one therefore will promote
the concept of sustainable form of tourism in the region while promoting development at the
same time (Leipzig Charter, 2007)
In the ideas of Dave Stein (2005) for the development of the economy in an area, below
processes should emphasize on human activities, lives of people, culture and natural
resources preservation
1: human: It involves infrastructural developments i.e. carpeting, reorganizing or designing it
afresh and putting up new one all together like constructing new ones and setting up of new
houses.it also involves cultural heritage restoration. All this will attract tourist. Brown, C
(2004)

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2: Living style: after developing infrastructure, lives of the residents will change because it
will ease movements of goods like food and boost business developments like craft work and
also opening up the area for outside markets
3: cultural restoration: during summer season, culture will be promoted like crafts work and
weaving including other traditional and religious activities. There will be intensive planning
of promotion of culture so as to attract tourist. Bramwell and lane (1993)
4: Natural environment protection: this will complete the sustainable approach to tourism
development in the area.in the concept is of Tanja Mihalic (2013) tourism sustainability
involves the following .it uses Frey’s Theory (1992) to discuss this concept which include:
Pre-environmental thoughts, consciousness of ecological rules, formulation of ecological
policy and execution of the rules.
c. examples of infrastructure, superstructure and each component of the suppliers in the
tourism stakeholder model that fit the sustainable approach to tourism that you have
adopted.

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INFRASTRUCTURE
plan: this encompasses roads, inns, energy, water systems and sewerage systems and other
structures that boost tourism. idea of GIS-will be used to explain sustainable development of
the infrastructure. sustainable tourism infrastructure planning approach (STIP) by Cottrell
(2005) –can be employed for planning of infrastructure- which encompasses 3 stages
utilizing GIS model.
1. Visitors differentiation: here, visitors are segmented into groups:
 Those who visit the beach, hiking tracks, gardens, marketplaces, centenaries.
 Business men to visit market places to see their interest areas
2. Researchers to find out new developments
3. Zoning: basing it on visitor interests, town is segmented into some zones. areas to be
visited by tourists like beaches, hotels and other sensitive areas like sea and forest will be
mapped and areas belonging to the local residents is also mapped separately to
differentiate and minimize the level of disturbance. Zones for tourist highlighted by way
of STIP-parts in G.I.S. both STIP-parts neighboring beach and forest.

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4. Transport system: STIP-parts will be connected by roads.
SUPERSTRUCTURE:
This are structural facilities located at tourism areas according to Gartner (1996) developed so as
to facilitated development of tourisms. this include rooms that are used for changing, bathrooms,
boardrooms and washrooms, towers for monitoring activities, dispensaries and others. This
facilities according to Ivanovic (2008) facilitate and enable visitors to stay comfortably in the
area. components that make up sustainable tourism include:
 Superstructures
 fishing area and marketplace used to sell fish.
 Trailing and Camp out ways
 Infrastructural developments
 Clinic facilities
 Marketplaces
 Cafeterias
PARTICIPANTS:
According to Aguera (2013) sustainable way of tourism by stakeholders is divided into;
 Primary stakeholders are having direct formal, official or contractual relationship with the
planning.
 The middle group this comprises of other stake holders like customers and those who
supply goods and services and this make an important group.
 Secondary group and this involve those in the administration like NGOS, media group
and activists’ groups.
Suppliers in this model has the strength to contribute to the revitalization of clipper bay town
and encourage various visitors in the region. Suppliers should contribute to the development
of the area because they give out work and employment opportunities through their
professionalisms and their various models. It includes:
 Suppliers of materials
 Labor force

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 employees
 Businesses
 Workers
 Local community
POTENTIAL ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES FOR THE GROWTH OF TOURISM AT
CLIPPER BAY.
 it leads to creation of a lot of jobs to the local residents of clipper bay. This is because
very many activities will need to be done like hotel attendants, park attendance and many
others. This will greatly improve on the economy of the region.
 Infrastructure such as roads, electricity, water and sewerage systems will be developed in
the area to facilitate the movement and good stay of tourist in the region. This will boost
the development of other facilities in the region thus developing other quarters of the
economy. This will lead to overall development in the economic front in the region.
 It will lead to generation of revenues to the government. This is because of entrance fees
into the parks and museums. This revenue will be used to develop the region thus
boosting on the economy of clipper bay.
 Transportation industry will grow. This is due to rise in the level of visitors coming into
the area and these visitors need to go round the region boosting transport in the region.
 It generates incomes to the area thus stimulating growth in other sectors of the economy.
 Increased foreign exchange in the area
POTENTIAL ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGES FOR THE GROWTH OF TOURISM AT
CLIPPER BAY.
 Acts like terrorism will be on the rise at clipper bay because there will be a lot of people
visiting the area. This will make it hard to differentiate good and bad people making the
area vulnerable to terror attacks which will greatly affect the economy of the region
should it occur.
 There will be seasonality in jobs in the area. This is because tourism comes sometimes
within the year but not throughout the year. This will disadvantage the residents of
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 There will be increase in prices of goods and services in the region due to influx of new
visitors. There will be inflation in the region because of rise in prices of goods.
 Product expiry might occur leading to decline in the living standard
POTENTIAL SOCIO-CULTURAL ADVANTAGES OF GROWTH OF TOURISM ON THE
LOCAL RESIDENTS OF CLIPPER BAY
 Education in the area will rise and this will empower the residents with a lot of skills that
will assist them change their living standards and uplift their status. This skill will enable
them handle visitors well. The same skills will enable them get jobs thus uplifting their
living standards. It will assist in peace creation within that locality that will improve
cultural strength and avoidance possible migration to urban centers by devolving jobs to
the rural areas or other closer to the ground
 With the advent of new visitors into the region, new way of living will emerge such as
change in culture of the people. This will impact on the way of doing things in the region,
new way of live will be incorporated into the lives of the residents.
 Products produced in the region such as fish and craftwork services thus bringing good
income to the residents.it will also aid in bringing the residents and their culture into the
limelight and be recognized widely (Mihalič,2013).
POTENTIAL SOCIAL-CULTURAL DISADVANTAGES OF RISE IN TOURISM AT
CLIPPER BAY.
 There will be an increase in immoral behaviors like sex. this will increase the level of
diseases like HIV.this will affect the lives of the residents of clipper bay. Cottrell, S
(2005)
 There will be a lot of people in the region and this leads to congestion thus leading to rise
in evil activities and crimes in the area. Tourist might also harass locals due to their
status.
 It will also water down the original culture of the people and undermine them such as
entry into the sacred places prohibited from entry of foreigners.
 Rivalry at coastal region will arise and intercommunity wars thus raising tension in the
area.

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POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL ADVANTAGES DUE TO RISE IN TOURISM AT
CLIPPER BAY.
 It raises awareness on ways of how to conserve the environment by placing spotlight on
planning.it will make people be concerned about how to sustain tourism in the area while
conserving their environment.
 Maintenance of the environment will be boosted so as to attract more visitors into the
region.
 There will be Improvement and regeneration of the nature so as to attract more and more
visitors into the region.
 Incomes collected from the tourist will be used to conserve and maintain the environment
in order to attract visitors.
 There will be a lot of researches aiming at developments of natural things to attract new
foreigners. This will lead to advancement in the environmental care.
 Education aiming at preservation will be fostered.
POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL DISADVANTAGES DUE TO RISE IN TOURISM AT
CLIPPER BAY.
 There will be increased air pollution in the area. This is simply because of developments
that comes with developments in the tourism sector such as factories that produces goods
necessary for the sustenance of tourists stay in the area. This factory will emit various
gases into the atmosphere thus polluting the environment.
 There will be water pollution in the area. Water pollution will result due to disposing of
refuse into the river. This will pollute water thus affecting the environment.
 Deforestation will result. This is due to clearance of trees to pave way for the
development of infrastructural activities necessary for the growth of tourism.
 It strain limited available resources such as land because very many people will come to
the area thus putting stress on such resources.

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CONCLUSION
In conclusion, economic development of clipper bay is so necessary so that tourist can be
attracted into the area so that the residents can benefit. Benefits as discussed above shows that
the region will realty be improved. There will be a lot of jobs, education level of the residents
will improve and therefore the living standards will improve. There will be emergence of new
culture in the region because people from diverse background will mingle up thus hybrid culture
will rise. There will be much development in the region in infrastructure such as roads,
electricity and sewerage systems. $50 m has to be used to develop the area so as to attract more
visitors. With a population of 5000 residents, it shows that the area has a lot of potential to
develop. infrastructural and superstructure of the area should be developed to facilitate tourism
activities.
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