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CUC100 Sustainable Tourism Development Assignment

   

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Running head: SUSTAINABLE TOURISMSustainable TourismName of the studentUniversity nameAuthor’s note

1SUSTAINABLE TOURISMIntroductionThe current assignment focuses on the concept of ensuring tourism is sustainable. Thus, anumber of environmental, societal and economic considerations need to be taken intoconsideration for ensuring sufficient resources are maintained for the betterment of the futuregenerations. Definition of sustainability“Sustainability is an approach undertaken in thinking about the future in whichenvironmental, economic and societal considerations are balance for improving the quality oflife”.Background of the scenario There are a number of issues which have been affecting the objectives of sustainabletourism and affecting the global environment as a whole. The factors could be divided into thefollowing specific concerns such as high carbon emissions, energy and water consumption,contribution to economy by job creation, tough working conditions, contribution of franchisingand ownership models at the local level, changes in the government taxation policies. Thus, allthese factors contribute significantly towards the growth and sustenance of a tourism business.In this context, much complex investments are involved within the tourism sector owingto the social, environmental and economic concerns. Therefore, equal amount of participation isrequired from all the stakeholders which include the tourism company, the state tourismdepartments among the few. The role of the Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) is important

2SUSTAINABLE TOURISMin balancing the potential profitability of an organisation against sustainable and responsiblebusiness models. Tourism could be divided into two basic types where the kind of tourism is only basedupon visiting a place and relishing its natural beauty, without thinking much about theenvironmental and social concerns. However as asserted by Lee (2013), Venezuela’s Bolivarianrevolution is slowly taking into consideration the development of humanity rather thancontributing towards the bank account of the tourism investors. Environmental IssuesVenezuela ranks under the top 10 list of the ecological diverse counties. It is the home toextensive rain forests, which can be classified into cloud forest located at the coastal mountain tothe beautiful rain forest located at the Amazon basin and guinea shield. Forests and plantationcovers more than half of the Venezuela's land area (Hansen et al. 2013). The largest extent offorest found in Venezuela is Bolivar then ranks Amazonas. Venezuela is also known fornurturing more than 2100 species of plants, 353 different species of mammals, 323 reptiles, 288amphibians and more than 1400 birds. Venezuela is a rich source of bio diversity. It is due to itsbiodiversity, Venezuela cores high as an important destination among the nature loving tourist(Laurance 2012). However, recent forest degradation in Venezuela has significantly affected is ecologicaldiversity. Apart from deforestation, water pollution, coal mining, oil drilling, wood logging andsoil erosion are other threats which are hampering the species richness in Venezuela. The riversare also getting polluted due to the volatile organic compounds, discharged by the industries andvia the oil spills which is endangering the aquatic species an the wild animals who feed on water.

3SUSTAINABLE TOURISMNot only this, Venezuela is has cheapest gas rates which increases the number of automobilesplying and the amount of oil consumption rates by these vehicles. This increase in the number ofautomobiles has lead to increases in the parameter of air pollution. According to Internationalenergy Agency, Venezuela is fourth most contamination country in Latin America (Van de Graaf2012). According to them, Venezuela pollutes the atmosphere with more than 140 million ofcarbon dioxide per year. According to United Nation (UN) report, Venezuela ranks 29 in the listof top most carbon dioxide countries in America. Venezuelan Constitution adopted in the year of 1999 states that, every person an equalrights to enjoy a safe and secured ecologically stable environment and every generation has theright and an obligation to secure the biological diversity of the country. However, theenvironmental policies framed by the Venezuelan government is criticised to be over ambitiousand unrealistic. This could be attributed to the fact that country lacks the capacity to implementsustainable environmental strategy optimally. However, in order to maintain the biodiversity andto retain is charm among the tourist; Venezuela needs to implement certain sustainableenvironmental strategies. One of the important sustainable strategy adopted by the Venezuelangovernment is, “Tree Mission”. This mission aims to recuperate certain trees and plants whichare critically endangered or lies under the urgent threat of extinction. The success of this missionlies in the fact that, during the tenure of 2006 to 2008, it has claimed to plant trees across 18.322hectors (Villarroya, Barros and Kiesecker 2014). The government is also working to revise itssustainable environmental policies further. The International Seminar on the Environmentorganised by the Venezuelan Parliamentary Group discussed about the current sustainableenvironmental needs of Venezuela and is currently working to improve the overall scenario(Villarroya, Barros and Kiesecker 2014).

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