Sustainable Tourism Development: Planning, Stakeholders, and Impact Measurement

Sustainable Tourism
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1.....................................................................................................................................................................3
1.1.......................................................................................................................................................................3
1.2.......................................................................................................................................................................4
TASK 2.....................................................................................................................................................................5
2.1.......................................................................................................................................................................5
2.2.......................................................................................................................................................................6
2.3.......................................................................................................................................................................7
TASK 3.....................................................................................................................................................................9
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3.3.....................................................................................................................................................................10
TASK 4...................................................................................................................................................................11
4.1 ....................................................................................................................................................................11
4.2.....................................................................................................................................................................12

4.3.....................................................................................................................................................................13
TASK 5...................................................................................................................................................................14
5.1.....................................................................................................................................................................14
5.2.....................................................................................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION .....................................................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES ......................................................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Sustainable tourism development is specific component for the development of economic
growth. The sustainable tourism development is largely dependent on the some factors like
economic, social, environmental to attract a large number of visitors. The tourism industry is
trying to put positive impact on economy, environment and on different communities also. In
modern era, it meets the need of present tourist and host region while protecting and enhancing
the future needs. The present research report is based on sustainable tourism development to
understand the significance of tourism industry, Philippines tourism industry is considered to
understand the significance of sustainable tourism development. Sustainable tourism requires
that all the participation of stakeholders should be wide (Palacios, 2010). It should also maintain
the high level of satisfaction of tourists by arising the awareness about the current issue which
are sustained. The current study will focus on the different approaches of tourism development
planning, current issues and there impact on tourism industry.
TASK 1
1.1
The planning is based on stakeholders and their efforts to make it successful in tourism
industry. Their is a huge responsibility of stakeholders to make a successful planing. The
president of Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, wants to increase their tourism nation by
creating both positive and negative impact on developing tourism development planning.
Sustainable tourism development needs a process of planning and management that brings
concerns and interest to diverse the group of stakeholders in sustainable. Stakeholders plays a
important role in the protection of nature and to increase the economy of country. It involves
various stakeholders which involves in the planning of sustainable. Here are some benefits,
which are describing the stakeholder benefits via developing the tourism in Philippines:
People – People plays a key role in developing the tourism industry. Developing the
tourism is good for the people, as it improve the living standard of people. It increase the job
opportunities for people in hotel, restaurants etc. These opportunities will help the people to
improve their living standards of Philippines people (Reihanian and et. al., 2012). It also
improves the living standard of local communities people by offering them a job opportunities.
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Governments - They are the main stakeholders of Philippines tourism industry. Their
aim is to promote the tourism with in the country. The desire of government is to get the foreign
money for the development of the economy. The president of cited tourism has recognized the
need of improvement of tourism industry. As it will help the government to generate high
revenue and to increase the employment opportunities and income of the people.
Local Tourist – They are also a stakeholders in tourism industry of Philippine because
local people also want to enjoy the some place which are tropical and wants spend some time
with their families and friends. So cited tourism industry have to provide them more benefits as
compare with the outside tourists.
In addition to this, there are more stakeholders such as government, local community and
society. For example, government tend to raise its income with the help of tourism development
of Philippines. For example, developed tourist destination attract more visitors and accordingly
rate of return of particular destination will be increased which in turn revenue of government will
be enhanced. Apart from this, tourism of country make it possible to have developed
infrastructure for convenience of visitors. This proves to be effective for better life of local
communities of society. For example, tourism scope tend to enhance employment attract more
visitors as well as candidates to engage with the same. It would be effective to contribute
towards economic development of nation.
1.2
In Philippines tourism industry the role of public and private sector is important to
generate a high revenue from them. Private and public tourism helps the industry to make
effective planning for the development of cited tourism industry. The partnership of public and
private will be good for the country if the funds of governments are put in to the best use by the
people and in this manner it will improve the level standard of people and those visitors also who
are coming to visit in the country. The government of Philippines can generate the more funds
from the private sectors (Saufi, O'Brien and Wilkins, 2014).
The following are some advantages and disadvantages of private partnership in
Philippine tourism industry.
Advantages: Disadvantage:
 In private partnership there are limited
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 It reduces the cost of taxes of visitors.
 It provide the better solution for
infrastructure so that visitors does not
faces any problem.
 The return on investment may be
higher than traditional, it will benefited
for Philippines industry to earn high
revenue.
 By increasing the efficiency of
government's investments then it
allows government to re-directed their
funds in other socio-economic areas.
 It is effective for market development
as private partnership is having large
scope to increase the market in
different areas to promote the tourism
industry.
number of stakeholders so that limited
funds are generated from them (Scott,
2011).
 It some times effect the quality
management of tourism industry.
Because private partnership mainly
focus on the costs and profits which are
generating from the services, which are
providing to visitors.
 The involvement of private sector
involves a huge investment and
Philippines tourism industry does not
have enough resources.
 The entire cost is paid off by the
organization because government might
not support them.
For example, if there will be no role of public or private partnership then Philippine
tourism industry does not spend so much finance to provide proper training and development
programme to members. So it is important that the role of private and public sector have huge
amount to help the large organisation.
TASK 2
2.1
In the world of travel and tourism industry, the government of Philippine tourism
industry is trying to put a lots of efforts to change their working style to develop the tourism
development planning (Spenceley, 2012). Tourism development planning is completely market
lead approaches which provides different services, facilities to attract a large number of visitors.
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