Tourism Management Project Proposal

The assignment focuses on developing a project proposal for sustainable tourism development. Students are required to address key areas such as defining the project scope, identifying stakeholders, outlining strategies for stakeholder engagement, assessing potential impacts (both positive and negative), and proposing mitigation measures. The emphasis is on integrating sustainability principles throughout the project lifecycle.

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management
(Tourism, Australia)
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
Author Note

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Executive summary
The report analyzes the necessary assumptions or limitations with justifications and the summary of
the project on tourism at a major highway in Australia. The scope of the project for responding to the
issue is also discussed. The report also considers descriptions of the outcome of the project to meet
the problem and the resource requirements are provided. Then it has developed the scheduling tasks
along with work breakdown structure. At last it has provided the initial cost estimate along with
proper justifications.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction:......................................................................................................................................3
2. Necessary assumptions or limitations with justifications:.................................................................3
2.1. The assumptions:........................................................................................................................3
2.2. The limitations:...........................................................................................................................4
3. Summary of the background in the context of the project:...............................................................5
4. Scope of the project for responding to the issue at hand:..................................................................6
5. Outcomes of the project for meeting the problems at hand:..............................................................7
6. Description of the resource requirements:.........................................................................................8
6.1. Internal constraints:....................................................................................................................8
6.2. External constraints:...................................................................................................................8
7. The scheduling tasks and Work Breakdown Structure:.....................................................................9
7.1. The scheduling tasks:..................................................................................................................9
7.2. The work breakdown structure:................................................................................................11
8. Initial cost estimate:.........................................................................................................................12
8. Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................12
9. Recommendations:..........................................................................................................................13
10. References:....................................................................................................................................16

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1. Introduction:
A major tourist attraction is developed along a major highway at Australia. The objective is
to attract the international and domestic customers irrespective ages.
The report is a professional business one intended for the CEO of the above business. It
provides the entire project plan outlining the project.
The report has analyzed the necessary assumptions or limitations with justifications and the
summary of the background. It has also included the scope of the project for responding to the issue.
Then the descriptions of the outcome of the project to meet the problem and the resource
requirements are provided. Next it has developed the scheduling tasks along with work breakdown
structure. Lastly it has provided the initial cost estimate along with proper justifications.
2. Necessary assumptions or limitations with justifications:
2.1. The assumptions:
The spending of the event tourists has been generating the economic benefits and event
tourism could be leveraged for the utmost value in Australia. This must spread the tourism
geographically and assist in the other formats of economic and urban development. The portfolios of
the events could be designed for the utmost effect. This must be especially through appealing to
various targeted segments. This must be acting as the catalyst for the other formats of the expected
development (Jones et al. 2017). This includes the community capacity building, urban renewal,
improved marketing and the voluntarism. Thus it could generate a permanent or long-term legacy.
More assumptions are described below:

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1. The events must create positive scenarios regarding the destination.
2. The event must be contributing to the place marketing through the making cities more attractive
and livable (Passaro et al. 2015).
3. The events would be able to animate the resorts, parks, urban spaces, venues of every kind, cities.
This must make them more attractive in visiting, re-visiting and using them more effectively.
2.2. The limitations:
The speed of the motor transport at the highway in Australia has been limited and slow
comparatively. The road transport has been less organized comparatively. It has been undependable
and irregular more often. The rate which is charged for transportation has been unequal and unstable
(Mason 2015). The additional limitations lie in the facts that are described below:
1. Seasonal nature:
During the time of flood or rainy seasons, the roads could turn out to be unsafe and unfit.
2. Breakdowns and accidents:
There have been more scopes of breakdowns and accidents for the motor transports.
3. Inappropriate for the bulky traffic and long distance:
This method of transport has been costly and unsuitable for the bulky and cheap goods of
transporting over the long distances (Chen 2017).

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3. Summary of the background in the context of the project:
The business has been attracting about two hundred thousand of people every year. The
different information systems have been quite outdated and including various legacy systems.
Moreover the efficiency of the system to produce management reports has been lacking (Waligo et
al. 2013). The board of management needed to come up with the updated central information system
for accommodating both the wireless and fixed devices. The immediate job has been to create the
project plan including the aspects of financial model, requirements of human resources, scheduling
tasks and the requirements of customer interface.
The management board expects to see the updated and integrated system that could support
the management and staff of the tourist attraction. This must also deliver the full services to the
clients through the handheld new wireless devices. There have been some issues that are recognized
by the board of management (Hartmann 2014). This includes the process for the customer to achieve
the access into the attraction is slow. The data pertaining to customers visiting the attraction is
limited. The expense of printing maps and brochures for informing the clients at various attractions
has been increasing. The present infrastructure has not been supporting the smart phones, tables and
many more. The facility management has been found to be very manual. The problems with the
attraction have been assigned and tracked manually to the technicians (Page 2014). Currently, the
attraction was fined because they have not been having any data regarding the number of individuals
within the attraction at any particular time.

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4. Scope of the project for responding to the issue at hand:
The scopes for this project include:
1. Firstly there are the criteria regarding the definition of network of the interest. This also includes
the way in which it has been sub-categorized for the cause of this study.
2. The developing patterns of the demand for the both business and personal transport. This takes in
account the effect of effect of the technology, attitudes towards the transport choices, changing
demographics and the travel behavior (Machado, Pinheiro and Tamanini 2015). There have been
also considerations made regarding the developments in the supply chains and the patterns of the
fright movement.
3. The financial relevance and value of the network and the implications of the planning and
environmental considerations are recognized. This is done both at the local and national levels.
4. There has been the higher-level view of the security imperatives for the users and the other risks
on and across the network. This is to recognize the safety measures, targets, policies and the
responsibilities.
5. There are scopes regarding the desirable, prospective and the present changes in the specifications
of road network, operations and management (Waligo, Clarke and Hawkins 2015). This also
includes the account of the developing expectations and standards of both the business and personal
transport users.
6. Next there is the scope to bring the supply and demand together. This could develop the criteria
and objectives to improve and evolve the managing and network demand. This also includes the

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addressing of the decision-making and planning process along with the proper models to govern
particularly in the primary conurbations (Wachowiak 2016).
5. Outcomes of the project for meeting the problems at hand:
The failure in knowing and managing the problems could have various economic costs. This
might be causing vital harm to the reputations and could even put the complete investments at risk.
The participation of the stakeholders has enormous outcomes in the project. The outcomes are
categorized into two. They are summarized and discussed below:
1. Project social risks:
There could be abandonment or delay of project. Reputational changes might also occur.
There could be lack of the user acceptance take place. The operational revenues could decrease here.
Moreover there could be boycotts from the side of the consumer (Jones and Cardia 2016). Major
changes or modifications might happen because of the pressure from the stakeholder. Further there
could be exposure to the legal actions. Lastly there could be security issues happening here.
2. Project social opportunities:
Firstly there could be better outcomes of the project through the input of the stakeholder.
Then could be the streamlined processes of approval might take place. There could be support from
the regulatory and the government. There must be completion of the project in time. There must be
smoother access to the project finance (Brandon-Jones et al. 2016). Moreover there could be the
improved revenues of operation through the customer support. Then there must be the rise in the
likelihood of the support for the future expansions or the subsequent projects. For the proponent
organization in Australia there could creation of values taking place. Lastly there could be enhanced
contribution taking place to the sustainable development.

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6. Description of the resource requirements:
The resource requirements are divided into categories, the internal and external. They are
discussed below:
6.1. Internal constraints:
In the organizational level, the internal control objectives have been concerning with the
reliability of the economic reporting, compliance with the regulations and laws and regular feedback
on the achievement of the strategic or operational goals (Hartman, Paris and Blache-Cohen 2014).
The internal resource requirements are summarized below:
Policy: This restricts the system from creating more services or goods.
People: The lack of the skilled people or mental models could impose negative effect becoming
constraints.
Equipment: The method in which the equipments are used restricts the system’s ability for
producing more stable services or goods (McGehee et al. 2013).
Thus the internal constraints have been the concern for the managers trying to minimize them
by optimizing the system continually.
6.2. External constraints:
For maximizing the current benefits, the business managers should consider the external
resource requirements limiting the project’s ability to achieve the goals. There are categorized as
below:

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Scarcity:
This has been denoting to the limited availability of the vital inputs, energy, important raw materials,
ware house space and specialized machinery.
Contracts:
The contractual obligations could constrain the managerial decisions. The labor contracts
could also limit the amount of the employees employed at any period. Thus it establishes the floor
for the minimum cost of labors.
Legalities:
At last the regulations and laws are to be viewed. The legal restrictions could constrain the
marketing and production decisions. Examples of this include the safety and health standards,
minimum wage and requirements of fuel efficiency (Thomas and Wood 2014).

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7. The scheduling tasks and Work Breakdown Structure:
7.1. The scheduling tasks:
Task
Mode
WB
S
Task Name Duration Start Finish
Auto
Scheduled
0 Developing tourist attraction 55 days Fri 6/2/17 Thu 8/17/17
Auto
Scheduled
1 Project starts 0 days Fri 6/2/17 Fri 6/2/17
Auto
Scheduled
2 Project Agreement / County /
State Agreement
4 days Fri 6/2/17 Wed 6/7/17
Auto
Scheduled
2.1 Authorize Preliminary
Engineering (PE)
2 days Fri 6/2/17 Mon 6/5/17
Auto
Scheduled
2.2 Environmental Review
Process (ERP)
1 day Tue 6/6/17 Tue 6/6/17
Auto
Scheduled
2.3 State Environmental
Review Process (SERP)
1 day Wed 6/7/17 Wed 6/7/17
Auto
Scheduled
3 Corridor Location Studies 12 days Tue 7/4/17 Wed 7/19/17
Auto
Scheduled
3.1 Hydraulic Plan Design /
PFI
3 days Tue 7/4/17 Thu 7/6/17
Auto
Scheduled
3.2 Location study 2 days Fri 7/7/17 Mon 7/10/17
Auto 3.3 Budgetary feasibility 3 days Tue 7/11/17 Thu 7/13/17

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Scheduled
Auto
Scheduled
3.4 Document reports 4 days Fri 7/14/17 Wed 7/19/17
Auto
Scheduled
4 Traffic Operations Analysis 13 days Tue 7/4/17 Thu 7/20/17
Auto
Scheduled
4.1 technical requirements 2 days Wed
7/19/17
Thu 7/20/17
Auto
Scheduled
4.2 budget estimation 1 day Tue 7/4/17 Tue 7/4/17
Auto
Scheduled
4.3 time estimation 2 days Wed 7/5/17 Thu 7/6/17
Auto
Scheduled
4.4 Document reports 3 days Fri 7/7/17 Tue 7/11/17
Auto
Scheduled
5 Furnishing environmental
traffic Data
1 day Tue 7/4/17 Tue 7/4/17
Auto
Scheduled
6 Test 10 days Fri 7/14/17 Thu 7/27/17
Auto
Scheduled
6.1 setup internet connection 3 days Fri 7/14/17 Tue 7/18/17
Auto
Scheduled
6.2 client acceptance 2 days Wed
7/19/17
Thu 7/20/17
Auto
Scheduled
6.3 error detected 3 days Fri 7/21/17 Tue 7/25/17
Auto 6.4 debugging 2 days Wed Thu 7/27/17

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Scheduled 7/26/17
Auto
Scheduled
7 Project handover 15 days Fri 7/28/17 Thu 8/17/17
Auto
Scheduled
7.1 client signoff 1 day Fri 7/28/17 Fri 7/28/17
Auto
Scheduled
7.2 project documentation 5 days Tue 8/1/17 Mon 8/7/17
Auto
Scheduled
7.3 handover documents 2 days Tue 8/8/17 Wed 8/9/17
Auto
Scheduled
7.4 archive documents 1 day Thu 8/10/17 Thu 8/10/17
Auto
Scheduled
7.5 payment procedure
completed
5 days Fri 8/11/17 Thu 8/17/17
Auto
Scheduled
8 project ends 0 days Thu 8/17/17 Thu 8/17/17
Table 1: “The scheduling tasks”
(Source: Created by Author)

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Figure 1: “The scheduling tasks and Gantt chart”
(Source: Created by Author)
7.2. The work breakdown structure:
Figure 2: “The Work Breakdown Structure”
(Source: Created by Author)

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8. Initial cost estimate:
Task Name Cost
Developing tourist attraction $20,210.00
Project starts $0.00
Project Agreement / County / State Agreement $3,400.00
Authorize Preliminary Engineering (PE) $1,600.00
Environmental Review Process (ERP) $1,000.00
State Environmental Review Process (SERP) $800.00
Corridor Location Studies $4,480.00
Hydraulic Plan Design / PFI $600.00
Location study $400.00
Budgetary feasibility $3,000.00
Document reports $480.00
Traffic Operations Analysis $3,400.00
technical requirements $400.00
budget estimation $1,040.00
time estimation $1,600.00
Document reports $360.00
Furnishing environmental traffic Data $0.00
Test $1,800.00
setup internet connection $600.00
client acceptance $0.00
error detected $480.00
debugging $720.00

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Project handover $7,130.00
client signoff $800.00
project documentation $600.00
handover documents $1,600.00
archive documents $130.00
payment procedure completed $4,000.00
project ends $0.00
Table 2: “The initial cost estimate”
(Source: Created by Author)
8. Conclusion:
The road project has been involving modifications to the current roadways. In this report, the
growing bodies of data have been described practices to improve the business of tourism at the major
highway in the country of Australia. The developing of the scheduling tasks and the work
breakdown structure has been indicating how long it must take in deploying the project. The cost
estimate included has been delivering the proper justification for meeting the organizational
requirements under the scope. The panning of the boundaries for the road and analyzing the related
environmental effects have been generally based in the socio economic considerations. The
ecological effects of the roads have been typically much higher than the road. It has been generally
extending beyond the domains of regional planning. The elements of the transportation system have
been including the kinds of vehicles and the fuels should continue to improve. The changes in the
road capacity and traffic volume specially through the widening of the road instead of building new
corridors have smaller effects.

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9. Recommendations:
Environmental considerations:
The various scopes to reduce or mitigate the adverse environmental effects must not be
overlooked. The environmental considerations must be incorporated as the plans are made for
modifying and repairing the current roads.
Research on ecological effect of the roads:
This must be designed and multi-scaled with the reference to the proper levels and ecological
conditions. Additional researches are also needed to be done on the large-scale and the long-term
impact on the road. The research must be focusing on the developing of the understanding of the
cross-scale interactions.
Integrating research on road ecology:
Further scopes must be generated for integrating the research on the road ecology in the long-
term ecological studies. This is done by utilizing the long-term research sites of ecology and the
consideration of the need of the latest ones.
Ecological assessment for the transportation project:
This must be conducted at various time scales for addressing the effects on the primary
processes of ecological structures and systems. The wider set of the robust indicators of ecology
must be created for evaluating the broad-scale and long-term changes in the ecological conditions.
Attention on the cumulative effects:
More attention is required for assessing, monitoring, planning and predicting the cumulative
effects of the roads. In few scenarios, the proper special scale for the assessment would cross the