Planning for Sustainable Tourism in Qatar: Challenges and Opportunities

This paper explores the concept of sustainable tourism development in Qatar, examining the factors that contribute to its success and the challenges that hinder its progress. It delves into the Triple Bottom Line theory, analyzing its application in the Qatari context. The paper further investigates potential obstacles to sustainable tourism development, including climate change, environmental concerns, education levels, and tourism policies. It concludes by outlining a comprehensive planning framework for sustainable tourism in Qatar, encompassing long-term and short-term goals, stakeholder engagement, and the development of sub-plans for social, environmental, and economic sustainability.

Understand the need
for planning for
sustainable tourism

The main objective of the sustainable tourism is to incorporate
a platform for development to a region or organization
Encompasses socio-economic development
The sustainable tourism utilizes the socio-cultural and
environmental resources for developing a trending and
retainable structure
Takes major part in the economic development of the region
Qatar is the subject region for the discussion of the current
topic
The focus of the Qatar’s tourism industry is the Persian gulf
and desert adventures
Justify the introduction of the concept
of sustainability in tourism
development with reference Qatar

 Triple Bottom line theory determines the three bottom
lines for the sustainable tourism in Qatar
 There are three bottom lines that have been considered
as the three main focus of the Qatar based tourism
 It improves the social performance
 Develops social capital and performance
Triple Bottom line theory

 The tourism development in Qatar might
encounter various hindering situation due to
some negative factors
 The factors are
 Climate change
 Environment
 Level of education
 tourism policies
Analyse factors that may prevent/hinder
sustainable tourism development with
reference to Qatar

 Developing long terms and short terms goal
 Developing stakeholders
 Development of sub-plans
 Social development plan
 Environmental development plan
 Economic development plan
 Identification of issues
Analyse different stages in
planning for sustainability with
reference Qatar

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