Sustainable and Responsible Tourism in Costa Rica

This report discusses the concept and evolution of sustainable and responsible tourism, focusing on Costa Rica as a prime example. It explores the role and mission of leading organizations promoting sustainable tourism and the purpose and principles of tourism development and planning to minimize adverse effects. The report also examines the impact of tourism activity on attraction destinations and highlights different principles of sustainability.

REPORT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................................3
Sustainable and responsible tourism concept and its evolution .............................................................3
Role mission and function of the leading organisations involved in the promotion of sustainable and
responsible tourism.................................................................................................................................4
Purpose and principles of tourism development and planning to minimise the adverse effect of
Tourism....................................................................................................................................................5
P4- Process of tourism development and planning including the challenges and problems...................6
Impact of tourism activity generated by attraction destination..............................................................7
Different principle of Sustainability.........................................................................................................8
How sustainability is being developed in recent past..............................................................................9
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCE................................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Sustainable tourism is an tourism that takes full account of its current and future economics
environmental and social impact addressing the needs of tourists, the industry, the host
community an environment. While responsible travel focus on the short term actions everyone of
us can take everyday to have less of a negative impact on a destination an increased positivity in
particular destination.
This report will cover one of the most sustainable and responsible destination called Costa Rica.
Addison South American destination that is covered with the rain forest Anne provide eco
friendly tourism (Sariskumar and Bhavan., 2018). This country holds 5% of the plants total
biodiversity and generate around 93 percent of the electricity from renewable resources and
conserve around 30% of its natural territory.
This report will explain how the concept of sustainable and responsible tourism has evolved. It
will also determine the functions and role and mission of leading some global organizations that
are involved in the promotion of responsible tourism and sustainable development within this
industry. This report will apply the principles of sustainable and responsible tourism
management from the children case study. In the end of this report really valued how the
responsible an sustainable tourism management has equally evolved in definite different
destination all over the world.
MAIN BODY
Sustainable and responsible tourism concept and its evolution
How sustainable tourism is an industry that commit to the world of making the lower
impact on the environment, and local culture of the country for sale sustainable tourism help
local people to get a job and they can earn money (Agyeiwaah, McKercher, and Suntikul.,
2017.). It also helps countries too show their culture and nature to the visit us. The positive of
sustainable tourism is Stew in short that the development is a positive experience for the people
who are living locally there Including the companies and tourists themselves.
Evolution of sustainable tourism
According to the history of sustainable tourism consider that the first idea to implement
sustainable tourism belonged to the just from the University of Bern. Since the early 90s the

concept of sustainable tourism has begin to be used more often in the academic circles and to
lesser extent among tourism entrepreneurs First off the concept of sustainable tourism was take
birth on the publication of 1st issue of the Journal sustainability reason in 1993 poster this new
form of practicing tourism include small business businesses or the small entrepreneurs which
arm to support the community locally and the promotion of local culture (Cheng and et.al.,
2019). David Weaver Who is the most prominent spokesperson of this estimate tourism consider
that the main difference between the old and the new form of tourism is moving the focus from
the well being of the tourists to the well being of the host community.
Costa Rica is providing sustainable and responsible tourism to that you reached and helping
local people to generate higher revenue by the tourism they are making tourism more sustainable
and taking responsibility to create good experience for the visitors. They are using natural
resources an attracting tourism through the natural activities within their country. This country
have all the things that are related to the environment such as they are producing electricity from
the natural resources and 90 3% of electricity generator why the renewable resources and 30% of
its natural territory. 5% of their plants are by diversity. They are attracting tourism by showing
the beauty of environment and This is why this country is able to attract most of the tourism
toward them and this destination is top destination in the list of South America tourism
attraction. Sustainable and responsible what are different from each others.
Role mission and function of the leading organisations involved in the promotion of sustainable
and responsible tourism
There are many different organizations that are involved within a promotion of sustainable and
responsible tourism all over the world. They promote countries to provide sustainable and
responsible tourism to the tourist who are coming to visit their countries. One of them are United
Nations world tourism organization (UNWTO) That is an leading international organization
Within industry of tourism (Kimaro and Saarinen., 2019). Role and mission of the UNWTO is
to promote tourism as a driver of economic growth, and they also involved the development and
environmental sustainability and also for support and leadership to the sectors in advancing
knowledge and tourism policies worldwide. They are helping companies and countries too
developer environment it can be sustainable and create a great impact on the tourist who are
coming to visit their countries and they can feel nature and understand the culture of the local

Culture and mainly it is helpful to provide jobs to the local community and also help economy to
grow rapidly on this scale.
Similarly some of the organizations such as center for responsible travel (CREST) Is there
another best example of the organization that focus to develop the economical And sustainable
tourism within Countries. This organization is based on Washington DC and they are working
without making profits their mission is to include coordinating research projects creating
publications and participating in the leading international workshops and some of the
conferences on the global level, reading responsible tourism karzan seminars provide to the local
tourism companies and support social services an convention projects through their charitable
arm.
Global sustainable tourism council- this Organization is known as the partnership for the
international sustainable tourism criteria, this is an NGO that was started in year 2007 as a
collaboration with the rain forest alliances UNWTO, United nation environment programmers
(Maing., 2019). The main mission of this organization is to foster a better understanding of
sustainable tourism practices, including the adoption of universal sustainable tourism principles .
The original partnership of this organization work to craft a set criteria organized around the four
pillars of sustainable tourism which are maximizing social an economic benefits to the local
community. Effective planning of this stability, In the negative impact on natural and cultural
heritages within a country and the mission is to reduce the impact from the environment. Every
organization that are mentioned here are having a same functions and their mission is to promote
suitability in tourism in all over the world and within a tourism industry.
Purpose and principles of tourism development and planning to minimise the adverse effect of
Tourism
One of the most important and beneficial from the tourism is that it has direct contribution to the
improvement of local infrastructure of the country. Development of tourism within our countries
help local people to get a jobs and they can sell their products and local things to the tourist in
higher prices. the increased spending helps local community to improve their school hospitals,
parks Road and many other things. People come from the different countries and visit a Costa
Rica and they can see how local people leave their and how they spend their life. Local people

can show their culture and things that are popular within their countries By showing them they
can earn money (Carasuk, Becken and Hughey., 2016).
tourism is not only provide positive effect but it can also have negative impact. Tourism puts
enormous stress on the local land use, and it can also lead this soil erosion, it also increased the
population of the local country, the natural habit of the people also get lost and many
environmental effect on the country. It is necessary for the Costa Rica country to develop And
plan to minimise the adverse effect of tourism. there are some ways that can help to overcome
from this problems and they can plan tourism effectively. Government of the Costa Rica should
aware and promote Companies toward the sustainable development and they should provide
them support and give them guidance to be responsible tourism. sustainable tourism can help
country to protect their natural environment and local culture within a country. Government
Costa Rica can create rules and regulation that can promote tourism and with the sustainable
development. It will not only promote tourism but also help them to be minimize the adverse
effect of tourism. They be able to save their natural environment an provide best experience to
the tourists who are coming to visit their country.
P4- Process of tourism development and planning including the challenges and problems.
Costa Rica country can develop the tourism within their country by following proper process
(Valdés and et.al., 2019). There are some planning process they can use and follow these
strategies to develop a tourism within their country. Adventure an cultural terrorism can we best
former tourism that can be used by this country to attract tourist. Here are some process that can
be used by government of Costa Rica to promote adventurous tourism within their country.
Tourism advertisement
Costa Rica can advertise there adventure tourism on the different different platforms such as
social media and some of the big events that can help them to promote tourism. This country has
already promoted there tourism ads on Olympic Games during the 2017 that was organized in
US and it has good impact on the tourism of Costa Rica. Similarly they can also use social media
to promote and aware people about and culture within their country the adventurous tourism.
Participation within world tourism councils

There are many council’s that are organized for the all the countries to promote their Tourism.
Costa Rica can also take participation within those events an they can promote tourism and take
the support from the councils too aware about their adventures tours and tourism(Agyeiwaah,
McKercher, and Suntikul., 2017.) . This councils are specially designed to support countries who
want to promote tourism within their country Anne help them to get tourist and local
development.
Help local tourism companies
They can give financial support to the local tourism companies to promote the adventurous
tourism and bring tourist within their country. Have the companies will get financial support
from their government then they will able to promote campaigns on the international level and it
will attract tourists to visit their countries and know about the culture an take adventure of the
Costa Rica.
Impact of tourism activity generated by attraction destination
Arenal Volcano is regarded as one of the most attracted tourism place in Costa Rica. Arenal
Volcano is able to attract good sort of customer toward the prime destination. This attraction
used to help the destination in seeing good impact. Some of the impact are as follows:
Economic impact: Attractive destination generally helps the nation in bringing a good
flow of the money in the nation. As most of the customer generally used to visit Cost Rica to
have a visit to Arenal Volcano, this also help nation in supporting the tourism industry as well.
As Costa Rica is 90 Km at northwest of San Joe, so customer are forced to invest some sort of
money in transportation as well (Goffi, Cucculelli and Masiero, 2019).
Social impact: Loosing at the social impact of having an specific attraction location it
had been understood that having specific attraction place help the domestic business prevailing at
that location. As Specific attraction place generally used to attract the good number of the tourist
toward the location and it used to help the domestic business to commence different commercial
activity in general.

Cultural Impact: Looking at the cultural impact it can be said that destination will be
seeing both negative as well as positive cultural impact due to presence of specific attraction
place. Looking at the positive impact it can be said that with the help of the destination
organization is able to promote the specific culture of the nation at the global map. At the same
time it has been also understand that there are variety of different culture individual generally
used to visit the attractive destination in general (Rodríguez Díaz and Espino Rodríguez, 2016).
This used to create the issue for locals to pursue with their culture in front of them. As there are
many elements of all the cultural in general.
Environmental impact: Having large number of the individual to a specific attractive
location some time used to impact the environment in the negative way. Reason behind
highlighting the same is that amount of the pollution generally used to increase if there is good
presence of crowd at specific attraction place. For example, in the recent time it had been find
out that quality of the air had been decrease at Arenal Volcano. One of the reason which had
been identified behind the same is the presence of Global warming. As number of transportation
medium which is seen by Arenal Volcano in the current situation is way high as compare to what
is generally by Arenal Volcano in past.
Different principle of Sustainability
There are variety of the different sustainability principle which are implemented by the nation
and specific business entity operating in Costa rica to maintain the sustainability of Arenal
Volcano. Some of the benefit which had been seen by them by doing the same is as follows:
 Enhance Livable: It is the first principle which had been applied by the Costa Rica
government to maintain a good sustainability of natural resources such as Petrol. Costa
Rica used to promote the usage of public transport to have a visit to Arenal Volcano.
Applying this sort of the principle in the nation had helped the travel industry in seeing
good sort of the benefit, as travel industry is one of the biggest stakeholder of the tourism
industry from the initial stage itself.
 Create opportunity for economic prospective: It is another sort of sustainability
principle which had been applied to maintain the sustainability of Costa Rica. Tourism

department generally used to market the special location such as Arenal Volcano in the
best way possible in front of global customer (Cucculelli and Goffi, 2016). This
ultimately used to create the situation where Costa Rica generally used to see good
number of the tourist in the nation. This ultimately open up the good opportunity for the
economy to develop. As it used to bring good sort of money in the economy, also it used
to bring the variety of the business as well in the nation.
 Enhance the quality of human life: It is another sort of principle which had been
applied to maintain the good level of sustainability. This had eventually helped the local
citizen in Costa Rica in improving the quality of the life which is enjoyed by them in the
past. It had been analyzed that having good sort of tourist in Costa Rica used to help the
local citizen in exposing themselves in front of tourism traveling from more developed
nation. This had eventually resulted in improving the quality of human life enjoyed by
local citizen of the nation.
 Enhance Quality of Environment: It is another sort of principle which had been applied
by the different stakeholder to improve the quality of environment of Costa Rica. This
had helped the government of the nation in promoting the good image of the nation in
front of the international tourist. By applying this sort of sustainability principle
destination is able to satisfy the need of the Government, as they are also stakeholder for
the same (Artal-Tur, Villena-Navarro and Alamá-Sabater, 2018).
How sustainability is being developed in recent past
There are variety of the different type of the activity which are performed by different
destination to develop good sort of sustainability in the market. Some of the sustainability
developing techniques used are as follows:
 Green Building initiative: It is the type of initiative which had been taken by the New-
Zealand to develop good sort of sustainability in the market. It had been identified that
New-Zealand is taking variety of the different step to build the different construction in
the destination in a way that it reduces the usage of less natural resources. This has
eventually created the positive impact on the climate and natural environment of the

nation. This had ultimately created the situation of Green buildings preserve precious
natural resources and improve our quality of life. This initiative was taken by the
government of the New Zealand to improve the quality of the air in the nation. As
Quality of air was getting impact in the negative way in the recent time. This initiative
has helped the nation in reducing the amount of global warming which is present in the
nation.
 Solar energy field: This type of initiative was taken by the African countries, as presence
of electricity in African countries are not that good. For the same reason African
countries has taken initiative to fix solar panel at different destination in the nation. This
has eventually helped the nation in saving different natural resource presence of the
nation in the long run. This had also helped the nation in presenting good image of the
nation in front of other in the market.
 This are two type of sustainability initiative which had been seen in the global market,
there are variety of the common type of initiative which are taken by all the nation to
manage the sustainability of the different nation in the better way. Some of the initiative
are wind purifier installation, water purifier installation and also promoting different
organization in the market to follow different green HRM activity in the nation as well.
CONCLUSION
As per the report has been explained how the concept of sustainable and responsible
tourism has evolved and benefits of the sutainable tourism. It will also determine the functions
and role and mission of leading some global organizations that are involved in the promotion of
responsible tourism and sustainable development within this industry. This report will apply the
principles of sustainable and responsible tourism management from the children case study. In
the end of this report really valued how the responsible an sustainable tourism management has
equally evolved in definite different destination all over the world.

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