Sustainable Tourism: History, Role of Global Organizations, and Planning

International Conference on
Sustainable Tourism

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................3
Task1............................................................................................................................3
P1 History of tourism sustainably..............................................................................3
P2 Role, function as well mission of leading global organizations involved in the
promotion of sustainable and responsible tourism....................................................4
Destination Stewardship Centre............................................................................4
Task2............................................................................................................................5
P3 the purpose and principles of tourism development and planning to minimize
the adverse effects of tourism ..................................................................................5
P4 the process of tourism development and planning, and the associated
challenges and problems, providing specific tourism examples ..............................6
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................7
REFERENCES.............................................................................................................9
Books and journals....................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Tourism is one of the fastest growing industry. It is able to make lot of money and
contribute to the country’s economic development. Travellers and tourists want to have a
good experience of their travelling which will lead to good experience. In this report the
impact of sustainable development is discussed. This includes the arrival as well as effect of
global tourism. There is discussion on importance of tourist sustainability.
Task1
P1 History of tourism sustainably
The concept of sustainable tourism explains that when one visits a destination as a
tourist, it becomes important to coordinate with society, locals and culture of that destination.
It also states that any natural resource should not be harmed while travelling. This will help in
enjoyment of trip without disturbing anyone or insulting any culture. This can be explained as
using every resource carefully in a positive way. It also depends on leaders in tourism
industry on how are they managing to reduce wastage while travelling and guiding others to
do that too.
This function needs regular tourists because it is important to have visitors to apply
this theory on them. Important focus here is on good quality of tourists rather then their
quantity or numbers. This concept was introduced in a conference in 2002 which was held in
Cape Town. This included members from more than 20 countries. In this conference this
decision was taken regarding reducing wastage of resources while travelling, involving local
people to help tourists, greater economic benefits from it and enhancing well being of local as
well as tourists. All these were meant to increase benefits from tourist’s industry. It also
aimed at satisfying all the customers of this industry which are travellers or tourists. This
concept is a sensitive concept culturally and also encourages respects between hosts and
tourists, and also builds pride and confidence.
After this conference and its decision taken it have been analysed that it had a great
impact on tourism industry. Tourism industry is growing up to 10% every year. More and
more people are visiting places and experiencing new cultures. WTO have mentioned that
companies involved in this industry who are providing more sustainable tourism are earning
better profits than others.