Reflection on Sustainable Tourism

Running Head: REFLECTION ON SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 0
Reflection
Reflection: Sustainable Operations and Destinations
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2/8/2019

Reflection on Sustainable Tourism 1
Reflective Task
This reflective paper is an attempt to critically analyse the learning acquired during
THH2114 module through reflecting on insights of sustainable practices as well as
responsible consumption after studying THH2114 during this semester. I will reflect on
learning about process of achieving sustainability by using concepts as well as various
theories during the module. I will also reflect upon personal consumption within T&H sector,
as well as give insight into managing tourist behaviour along with global challenges.
While learning about sustainability concept, I realised that sustainability is strongly
connected with present as well as future. It means that whatever we all are doing at present
will reflect and add into sustainability achievement process in future. When I heard about this
concept it made me feel like sustainable development (referred as SD) and sustainability are
somewhat different as sustainability is a long-term goal and SD is the process of achieving
that long-term goal of future. I learnt about my current activities as well as their impacts
through which I got to know that my current practices and activities are sustainable or not.
Majorly, I learnt about sustainable development practices into tourism as well as
hospitality industry. Based on the theory of three pillars of sustainability, I realised why T&H
sector requires becoming more sustainable. There are so many sustainable competitive
advantages in the T&H sector, as we know that global tourism is on the verge of becoming
top revenue generating sector of the world (Lu, Nakicenovic, Visbeck, & Stevance, 2015). In
this context, I read and learnt a lot about sustainability principles given through UNWTO
which refers to the economic, environmental and sociocultural factors of tourism growth. In
my opinion, UNWTO has highlighted a major need of balancing the above mentioned three
dimensions of sustainability to ensure T&H sector’s sustainable future. I understood this
concept through the triple bottom line method as well as 3P’s approach which consists of
3P’s as People for Social equity, Profits for Economy and Planet for Environment (Hammer
& Pivo, 2017). During week-4, I learnt about five principles of SD as responsibility,
precaution, transparency, responsible citizenship and social as well as technological
innovation. My developed insights into managing global challenges and tourists behaviours
contain strategic planning and implementation to gain a competitive advantage over others.
Based on (Service Skills Australia, 2011), I learnt that, in order to manage tourists’
behaviour and global challenges, the T&H sector of any destination should sustain their