Sustainable and Responsible Tourism Management

Sustainable and
Responsible Tourism
Management

Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
P1: Explain how the concept of sustainable and responsible tourism has evolved...................................3
P2 & M1: Determine the role, function and mission of leading global organizations involved in the
promotion of sustainable and responsible tourism...................................................................................4
D1: Critically analyse the relevance and application of the concepts and meaning of sustainable and
responsible tourism according to leading global organizations................................................................5
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................5
P3: Explore the purpose and principles of tourism development and planning to minimize the adverse
effects of tourism.....................................................................................................................................5
P4: Evaluate the process of tourism development and planning, and the associated challenges and
problems..................................................................................................................................................7
M2: Critically evaluate approaches to tourism development and planning for successfully achieving
sustainable objectives..............................................................................................................................8
D2: Evaluate tourism development and planning approach for measuring and monitoring sustainable
performance.............................................................................................................................................8
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................9
P5: Investigate the impacts of economic, social, cultural and environmental on tourism activity............9
P6: Examine how principles of sustainability implemented by a specific tourism business/attraction
meet stakeholder requirements and expectations.....................................................................................9
M3: Analyse the contribution made by various stakeholders in developing sustainable tourism practices
to minimize the adverse impacts of a specific tourism business/attraction............................................10
D3: Critically analyse the value and importance of stakeholder engagement and partnerships in
minimizing adverse impacts to meet overall sustainable objectives......................................................10
TASK 4.....................................................................................................................................................11
P7&M4: Evaluate how sustainability is being developed and managed in a range of tourist destinations
worldwide..............................................................................................................................................11
D4: Make justified recommendations and solutions for improving sustainable management and
development for a range of tourist destinations worldwide...................................................................11
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Sustainable tourism is the ongoing process which involves the wide participation of
relevant stakeholders as well as political authorities in order to maintain the significance of
tourist places and destinations. Efforts are taken to highly satisfy the experience of tourist and
make their experience memorable by raising the awareness about sustainable issues as well as
significantly promote the tourism practices (Frey and George, 2012) Preventive measure needs to
be taken in terms to promote the greenery, abolition of the use of non biodegradable material and
reduce carbon emission to promote the tourism industry significantly. To better define the topic
Ljubljana tourism destination of European Union has been selected which is a well recognized
example of sustainable tourism. The tourism company as well as local authority carry out
immense practices in terms to maintain the quality of lives for the local residence as well as
tourists by maintaining greenery and reduce carbon footprints. This report cover topic like
describe the essential features of sustainable and responsible tourism. Demonstrate the
importance of tourism development planning for sustainability. Moreover, apply the principles
associated with tourism management and evaluate the process by which sustainable and
responsible tourism management have evolved in varied of the destination worldwide.
TASK 1
P1: Explain how the concept of sustainable and responsible tourism has evolved
As travel and tourism company is solely based on the services and is exhibit huge growth
which makes it necessary to maintain the balance where company grows, nation and
international visitors are attracting without disturbing the natural resources (Carasuk, Becken and
Hughey, 2016). Further, tourism sector at present receives high demand but the concept of
sustainable development is immensely popular field since 1980. This practice was evolved as a
environment management idea due to which it gain immense attention. Later on that mean in
1993, World Tourism Organization put forward the essence of sustainable tourism development
which later on covers dominant position in whole tourism industry. This simultaneously led to
the emergence of balance growth by maintaining social development without affecting the
environment. Since 1980 tourism industry have faced a massive change as now efforts are made
to effectively utilize the resources by conserving the present as well as further needs.

In terms of the Ljubljana country they have experienced less/minimum traffic since 2008.
The country has introduced electric tourist train which visitors can use to visit attractive places of
the cities. The introduction of electronic train is done to keep the environment clean and restrict
the use of vehicle that can create pollution. Public transport was introduced by the country to
evolve sustainable development to the next level and visitors who are not from the country can
use Urbana to pay for public transport and parking. This motivates them to use electric public
over their private vehicles. Ljubljana being European green capital of 2016 experience huge
tourism rate that explore the country and various tourist destination by travelling through
electric trains, electric buses and sharing cars. The country has increasingly adopted the
sustainable strategy which has effectively helped the country to generate the interest of traveler
and offer them quality environment (Mathew and Sreejesh, 2017). Such practices are highly
recommendable and develop the significant image amongst society as with the increase
awareness amongst traveler even they are more likely to travel the countries that promote the
concept of sustainability. Further, efforts are made by the prevailing destination to maintain the
greenery in terms to support the wildlife and offer supreme quality air which is pollution free due
to the wide trend to use environment friendly bikes to cover the shorter distance. This widely
helps to minimizing carbon footprint which leads to climate change so it is mainly the
responsibility of tourism industry and local authority to promote the sustainable tourism which
helps to generate the FDI without affecting external environment.
P2 & M1: Determine the role, function and mission of leading global organizations involved in
the promotion of sustainable and responsible tourism
Sustainable and responsible tourism encompasses the process under which the needs of
present tourism as well as host regions are protected with the objective to explore the
opportunities of future. It helps to accommodate the economic and social needs by maintaining
ecological processes, sustain bio-diversity as well as cultural integrity. The main objective of
sustainable tourism is to cater the requirement of host population by enhancing their living
standard for both short as well as long tenure (Spenceley, 2012). It even focuses on the capacity
to cover rapidly growth and demand of the tourism which preceding safeguard natural
environment in order to achieve prevailing objective successfully. UNWTO is one of the leading
international tourism organizations that support sustainable methods in terms to derive out
economic growth and maintain environment sustainability by supporting all the desirable