Evaluation of Article 'Sea turtles tourism in Oman: Current Status and Future Prospects'

Running head: ARTICLE EVALUATION
Evaluation of Article "Sea Turtles Tourism in Oman: Current Status and Future Prospects"
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Introduction
The essay will consider detailed article evaluation of the selected journal article “Sea
turtles tourism in Oman: Current status and future prospects” along with explaining the
marketing issues explained within the article. Moreover, comparison of this article with other
two selected articles will be conducted in order to critically analyze the Omani tourism market.
Based on the article review linking or arguments in the selected articles will be demonstrated
based on Omani market tourism. Based on the analysis the conclusion will be drawn focused on
the results of the critical evaluations.
Overview or Summary of Article
The article “Sea turtles tourism in Oman: Current status and future prospects” provided
an overview of recent status along with future prospects of nature based tourism practice within
Oman with increased focus on sea turtles at (Ras Al Hadd Busaidi, Bose, Claereboudt and Tiwari
2018). The article explained that the concept of sustainable tourism deal with certain criticism
related without guaranteed sustainable flow of tourist demand particularly in the spot’s level and
it has also been revealed that there is lack of understanding of the complexity of resources by the
users. The article also revealed certain marketing issues related with insufficient attention to fair
distribution of costs and advantages among the stakeholders and lack of suitable understanding
of likely invasive effects of tourism on the culture along with social structure of communities.
From analyzing the article certain marketing issues has also been observed related with
limited success in recognizing the limitations of tourism growth along with increasing ambiguity
in any tourism form to attain the targets of attaining sustainable tourism growth. Considering

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such marketing issues identified in this article it has been recognized that there is an economic
potential for the sea turtle tourism that might enhance management efforts (Ras Al Hadd Busaidi,
Bose, Claereboudt and Tiwari 2018). For the same, it is also argued in the article that certain
adapted practices are important to sustain and realize such economic potential. However, the
development intentions are different and are driven by identical socioeconomic objectives like
earning revenues from foreign exchange along with generating employment for the locals, which
will support in community empowerment. The article explained the recognition of environment
economy interdependency along with potential negative impacts on tourism that necessitated
persuasive call for explaining the symbiotic relationship between environment, tourism and the
local community was made through sustainable tourism development concept by UNWTO (Ras
Al Hadd Busaidi, Bose, Claereboudt and Tiwari 2018).
Article Evaluation Employing Other Articles
The article “Sea turtles tourism in Oman: Current status and future prospects” applied the
method of systematic research approach based on which the article focused on collecting data on
the global tourism indicators from the national data on inbound tourists. In analyzing the season
ability within the Oman tourism sector is observed to have a growing pattern of tourist visits
along with natural turtle occurrence relied on the published data. In the article SWOT analysis
was carried out in order to reveal the threats faced by Oman in its tourism market. The
opportunities existing within the Oman market is identified in the article through the
enumeration of SWOT analysis. The assessment helped indentifying the globally acclaimed
populations of several turtle species that can attract tourists from all over the world. The article
indicated that growth in the number of tourists in Oman for visiting sea turtles is indicating the
growth of tourism in the nation. Busaidi, Bose, Claereboudt and Tiwari (2018) also identified