Stakeholders and Benefits in Tourism Development

This presentation discusses the stakeholders involved in tourism development and the benefits they can gain from planning. It also explores the advantages and disadvantages of public/private sector partnerships in the context of tourism development. References are provided for further reading.

Sustainable tourism Development
TASK 1

 Introduction
 Stakeholders can benefit from planning of tourism development
 Advantages and disadvantages of public/ private sector
 Conclusion
 References
Table of content

Stakeholders are the individuals who ore directly or
indirectly associated with a corporation. They are
classified as employees, suppliers, investors, creditors,
pressure groups and so on. They have significant
impacts from policies, objectives and decisions of an
organisation. Stakeholders in context to tourism
development are investors, employees, supporting
authorities, local community and tourists.
Introduction

Benefits to stakeholders from planning of tourism developments.
Planning for tourism development provides various benefits to different stakeholders. Planning
procedures includes formulating future plans along with several activities, setting goals that helps in
grabbing opportunities, developing alternatives, evaluating alternatives, making final choice of
alternative, formulating derivative plans, securing participation, establishing sequences to conduct
activities, implementing plans and evaluating results.
Stakeholders can benefit from planning of tourism development

Benefits to stakeholders of tourism development
Effectively executing sustainable tourism plans depends on distinct stakeholders. For development
of destinations of Qatar, key stakeholders consists of people from the country of Qatar such as
developers, local government, tourist, host community, regulatory bodies and so on. Some of the key
advantages of stakeholders are as follows:
Tourists: Tourists are the people who travel as well as visits various destinations to attain pleasure. They
make investments to enjoy different places.
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 Developers: The main role of developers is to develop or frame more tourism policies as well as
providing information to tourist about destination places.
 Host country: Host country is the nation in which people from other countries visits various places as
per the invitation. Qatar can also invite other countries to visit its destination areas such as Doha, Al-
Rayyan, Fuwayrit and so on.
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 Tourism industry: It refers to the industry that includes activities related to travel and touring. It is
associated with providing services to tourists at the time of travelling.
Benefits: Tourism development can benefit the tourism industry at great extent. It will improve
employment opportunities, provide consumer protections as well as improvement in infrastructure in
order to provide quality environment to the tourists, employees and other stakeholders associated with
tourism industry of Qatar.
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A cooperative arrangement among public as well
as private corporations that allows various
destinations to provide quality of services to
tourists. Qatar is a beautiful country that has high
values pertaining with heritage and culture.
Advantages and disadvantages of public/ private sector

 Advantages
Such partnership will lead towards making effective usage of scarce resources to improve infrastructure
and cultural diversity.
 Disadvantages
Such partnership will affect decision making in context to distribution of human resources as well as
profits.
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From the presentation it can be concluded that stakeholders are classified as tourists, developers, tourist
industry and host country that acquire various benefits such as improved employment opportunities,
maximising benefits, coordination between partners and so on.
Conclusion

References
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Pröbstl-Haider, U., Melzer, V. and Jiricka, A., 2014. Rural tourism opportunities: strategies and
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