Sustainable and Responsible Tourism Management

Sustainable and
Responsible Tourism
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Evolution of concept of sustainable addition to responsible tourism..........................................1
Role, function as well as mission of leading global organisations that are involved in working
of promoting sustainable and responsible tourism.......................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Purpose and principles of planning and development of tourism for minimising adverse effects
......................................................................................................................................................4
Evaluating process of developing and planning tourism addition to associated challenges as
well as planning...........................................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
Investigating impacts of tourism activity that are generated by particular tourism attraction for
different perspective.....................................................................................................................7
Examining the ways principles related to sustainability executed by a specific tourism
attraction or business meets expectations of stakeholders...........................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
Evaluating how sustainability is developed along with managed in range of tourist destinations
......................................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Sustainability means fulfilling needs of person or organisation without compromising
potentials of future future generations so that they meet their needs (Saarinen and Gill, 2018).
Similarly, ecotourism is said to responsible tourism to natural areas which conserve environment,
includes education and sustains local well being. Main purpose of ecotourism is to decrease
impacts which tourism have on natural environment. In tourism industry, main requirement of
responsible tourism is to built and promote better locations or destinations for citizens to live in
along with better attractions for visit. For this report, The International Ecotourism Society
(TIES) is selected organisation. It was founded in 1990 to promote ecotourism along with
responsible travel. It is a non profit establishment that has been dedicated for provide guidelines,
develop ecotourism and educational resources. The destination chosen is Switzerland which is a
home for various lakes, high peaks of Alps and villages. The attraction is popular for ski resorts,
hiking trails, etc.
The report highlights about evolution of sustainable addition to responsible tourism, roles
and functions of international business that promotes sustainable together with responsible
tourism. Further, it evaluates significance of tourism development planning in context to
sustainability and application of principles connected with responsible tourism to the company.
At last, the report evaluates the ways sustainable tourism management have evolved in variety of
destinations.
TASK 1
Evolution of concept of sustainable addition to responsible tourism
Sustainable tourism is the concept whose main focus is to develop and maintain high
satisfaction level of tourist together with ensuring meaningful experiences to travellers, raising
awareness for sustainability challenges, promoting tourism practices in sustainable manner. The
concept have origins with movement of environment from 1970s (Ruhanen, Moyle and Moyle,
2019). In the Brundtland Report which was published in 1987 coined the term sustainable
tourism and described it as tourism which meets requirements of existing travellers without
compromising abilities related to future generations for satisfying their travel needs. The
evolution has developed in various stages. The first stage of of 1970s in which sustainable
tourism was perceived as the aspect that have restricted impacts on cultural, social and
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