sustainable and responsible tourism

Sustainable and
responsible tourism
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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Part 1................................................................................................................................................3
Evolution of the sustainable tourism...........................................................................................3
Role, function and mission of leading global organisation.........................................................4
Part 2................................................................................................................................................5
Purpose and principle of tourism development and planning to minimise adverse effects of
tourism.........................................................................................................................................5
Evaluation of process of tourism development and planning and associated challenges and
problem........................................................................................................................................7
Part 3................................................................................................................................................8
Impact of tourism activity generated by different tourism attraction economic, social and
culture and environmental perspective........................................................................................8
The way principle of sustainable tourism is implemented by tourism business for meeting
stakeholders expectation..............................................................................................................9
Part 4..............................................................................................................................................11
The way sustainability is being developed and managed in different global destination.........11
Critical analysis about success or failure of sustainability management...................................12
Recommendation.......................................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCE................................................................................................................................14
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INTRODUCTION
Sustainable and responsible tourism is becoming more and more important in today era
of innovation and digitalisation due to increase impact of high tourism on the particular
destination. Tour and travel industry have contributed towards generation of high employment
and revenue in the economy thus making live of people better and healthy. At the same time it
has cause threat for increasing pollution, overutilization of resources and adversely impacted on
overall local community of destination. There are various global destinations such as Nepal,
Indonesia and United Kingdom that have taken steps in order to protect environment and natural
resources so that future generation can have sufficient resources to live life on earth. The report
has covered about points such as the way sustainable and responsible tourism development
concept have involved and roles of global organisation in promotion of tourism across
worldwide. It has also discussed about principle and purpose of tourism development and
planning to minimise adversely impact of tourism. It also evaluates process of tourism
development and planning at the same time describes about various associated challenges with
specific destination. The report also discusses about value and importance of stakeholder
engagement in minimising adversely impact of tourism so that overall sustainable objectives can
be achieved. At last it has explained the way sustainable tourism has evolved in different
destination across worldwide.
Part 1
Evolution of the sustainable tourism
Sustainable tourism: The concept of sustainable tourism no longer simply refers to the tourism
activities where both the touristers as well as the agents collectively try to create a positive
impact on the different tourism activities that are to be completed. The concept of sustainable
further takes into purview the variety of social, economic and environmental impacts and this
addresses the multiple interactions that take place between different factors and leads to value
addition in the industry are also included (Liu and et. al., 2017). The traditional aspect of the
sustainable tourism can be categorised simply as the manner in which the different and uniquely
picturesque tourism locations were visited by the tourists that could be at local as well as national
and international level in the company. However, earlier only the number of visitors was the
factor that was taken into consideration while evaluating the tourisms and the concepts
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associated with it and the revenue that was generated due to such tourism businesses. The
tourism sector is very elaborate and it leads to the better development and formulation of the
society as well as the culture in which the employees are operating. The overall evolution has
been in the context where the tourism is no longer simply a industry that can be used for profit
generation but it is also an industry where tourism has evolved more into responsible tourism.
The responsible tourism can be broadly classified as the manner in which the tourist and the
agent collectively focus on every small steps that they are taking towards tourism i.e. while
engaging in tourism activities which majorly involves the minimization of any activities that can
cause negative impact on the destination i.e. the tourism destinations that has been selected for
the purpose of visiting. Collectively the activity of tourisms has evolved significantly where the
visitors are not an only consideration (Spector and et.al. 2017). It can be observes that the overall
the concept of tourism has developed immensely in this industry and the company in which the
work is to be performed. Therefore the service aspect in the tourism hospitality will be addressed
in an equivalent manner.
Role, function and mission of leading global organisation
World tourism organisation and world travel and tourism council plays important role in
promotion of sustainability and responsible tourism across worldwide. Main purpose of
UNWTO is to promote tourism for economic growth and success and environmental
sustainability. Various global codes of ethics are formulated by UNWTO to minimize different
negative impact of tourism on local communities and environment. There are 159 member
countries in UNWTO that ensure sustainability of destination so that resources can be effectively
utilised (Baum and et.al., 2016). It is international organization that promotes tourism through
implementing Global code of ethics for tourism in order to minimise negative impact to
environment and local communities. Thus, it main aim of UNWTO is to reduce poverty and
economic crises and sustainable development of tourism throughout worldwide.
TIES are another non profit organisation that was founded in 1990 for development of
ecotourism though protection of bio diversity and sustainable community development.
Therefore its mission is to provide support to communities, organisation for promoting practices
of principle of ecotourism.
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