Sustainable Tourism Development: A Comprehensive Analysis

This presentation delves into the concept of sustainable tourism development, focusing on its application in Qatar. It examines the three bottom line theory of sustainability, analyzing the social, economic, and environmental dimensions. The presentation also explores factors that may hinder sustainable tourism development in Qatar, such as climatic changes, safety and security, and access to amenities. Furthermore, it outlines the different stages involved in planning for sustainable tourism, from background analysis to implementation and control. The presentation concludes by emphasizing the importance of sustainable tourism development for Qatar's tourism sector, highlighting its potential to enhance economic growth and environmental protection.

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT
TASK 3

TABLE OF CONTENT
•Introduction
•3.1 Justify the introduction of the concept of sustainability in
tourism development
•3.2 Analyse factors that may prevent/hinder sustainable
tourism development
•3.3 Analyse different stages in planning for sustainability
•Conclusion
•Reference

INTRODUCTION
• The current presentation explains the concepts of
thee sustainable tourism with the reference of Qatar
and along with the factors that could prevent the
development of the sustainable tourism in the
country. Besides this, different stages of the planning
of the sustainable tourism also would be explained
here.

INTRODUCTION TO THE CONCEPT OF
SUSTAINABILITY IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

WHAT IS “SUSTAINABILITY” IN
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT?
Includes the development of:
• Environment
• Economy and (Getz, 2013)
• Society

THREE BOTTOM LINE THEORY ON
SUSTAINABILITY
The concept of sustainability could be understood with the
help of the three bottom line theory where three dimensions
of the performance are measured through tourism
development. These are:
• Social performance (Buckley, 2012)
• Economic performance
• Environmental performance

THE FACTORS THAT MAY PREVENT
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
• Climatic changes
• Safety and security
• Access to Amenities (Black, Kononovas and Raine,
2014)
• Level of education
• Pollution and wastage

THE DIFFERENT STAGES IN
PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Stage 1
• Back ground Analysis of
the tourist destination
stage 2
• Identification of
Potential risk and
strength
stage 3
• Setting of vision,
mission, objectives
Stage 4
• Formulation of
strategies
Stage 5 • Implementation
Stage 6 • Control

CONCLUSION
• Sustainable tourism development is very important
for the country if it wants to enhance the tourism
sector of the country so that more profit could be
gained. Here, the sustainable tourism development
works on the development of the social, economical
and environmental perspective of the country.

REFERENCE
• Black, G., Kononovas, K., and Raine, R, 2014,
sustaibale Planning for the events: A Qualitative
Evaluation. PloS one, 9(3), e92338.
• Buckley, R, 2012, Sustainable tourism: Research and
reality. Annals of Tourism Research, 39(2), 528-546.
• Getz, D, 2013, Event tourism: concepts, international
case studies, and research. Cognizant
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