Stakeholders in Tourism Development in Qatar

This article discusses the stakeholders involved in tourism development in Qatar, including the national government, tourists, and the host community. It also explores the benefits that stakeholders receive from the tourism industry. Additionally, it examines the advantages and disadvantages of public-private sector partnerships in tourism planning.

Improved employment opportunities: As tourism grows, the needs and demands
increases which further generates the employment opportunities for the people. This
in turn increases the per capita income.
Protection and conservation of wildlife: Sustainable tourism deals with increasing
tourism without compromising or affecting the natural and wild life environment.
Maximise benefits: It increases the benefits for the people as it provides various
facilities like infrastructure development, technological improvements, etc.
1.2 Advantages and disadvantages of public/ private sector tourism planning
partnerships
Public private partnership is a funding framework for a public infrastructure project
such as developing railways, airports, etc. The public partner is described by the
government at a local, state or national level. The private partner can be privately
operating business, public corporation within a tourism planning. It is a relationship
between a government agency and private sector company which is useful in
financing, building and operating projects of tourism planning in Qatar. They have
various advantages and disadvantages which are discussed below:
Advantages: They provide better infrastructure solutions in Qatar than an initiative
that is entirely public or private. Thus, each organisation does what it is best in
doing. It results in rapid project completion and minimises delays on infrastructure
projects by including time to completion as a standard of performance and therefore
of profit. This has an advantage in maintaining human resources. While generating
employment opportunities through tourism planning, it minimises the labour
turnover and absenteeism rate. Useful in promoting cultural and heritage of the
country such that it enhances the country's pride and promotes tourism with
favourable conditions. While planning for sustainable tourism, it aims to provide
development in tourism sector without harming or destroying the natural and
wildlife environment.
Disadvantages: Every public private partnership is associated with risk for the
private players, who are required to be compensated for accepting those risk which
can increase government costs. Profits of the projects can be variant on the assumed
risks, level of competition and complexity and scope of the project. Many
government lacks experience in public private partnership which leads to
unfamiliarity by government and interested parties leading to huge political risk. If
public private partnership is not structured properly then this may result in lack of
quality of the service, inefficiency of appropriate maintenance of an installation.
1.1 Stakeholders can benefit from planning of tourism developments
Travel and tourism is one of the largest industry and involves lot of people in it.
This involves various stakeholders and provides various benefits to them. A
systematic approach is essential for active engagement of stakeholders. The
main stakeholders of tourism development in Qatar are discussed below:
National government: The government of Qatar plays an essential role in
tourism development. They are responsible for planning tourism activities at
national level. This requires suitable policies being designed and implemented.
Their role is to develop roads, railways and ports and promotes tourism to local
and international tourist.
Tourists: It includes travellers like businesses travellers and visitors, sites and
attractions are the most crucial stakeholders. Tourist are the people who visit
places, spends money and promotes the places through word of mouth and social
media if their experience is positive and enjoyable.
Host community: They define the tourism philosophy and vision for the
community and are local business people employed in tourism. It further
establishes the social, physical and cultural capacity for the host community.
This also encourages tourism within sustainable development plan.
Benefits to stakeholders: Tourism industry gives various benefits to the
stakeholders and they are discussed below:
Sustainable Tourism Development