Sustainable Tourism Development

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Tourism Industry is considered as the fastest growing industry and possesses huge impact
on the economy of host nation. The entire industry is gaining success and growth from past few
years and this is mainly possible because there is a fast increase in the number of people who
travel for various purposes such as holidays, business and many other factors (Aldebert,
Dangand Longhi, 2011). Today, tourism sector is facing central challenge for achieving some
essential goals of human welfare and sustainable development of business. These goals
emphasise on rendering economic opportunity, protecting culture, improving quality of life,
national heritage of nation etc. This report talks about the growing tourism of industry Qatar,
which is considered as one of the most developing countries globally. The report covers planning
of tourism development, features of tourism development plan, methods of measuring tourism
impact, different stages in planning and lastly, current issues related with tourism development.
TASK 1
1.1 Benefit of stakeholder from planning of tourism development
There are various stakeholders considering planning of tourism development with
reference to Qatar well-established tourism sector. Successful execution of sustainable travel and
tourism development plan entirely depends upon tourism shareholder. For destination like Qatar,
stakeholders include developers, local residents, investors, government etc. Engagement of all
these stakeholders plays very crucial role in Qatar tourism sector. Discussed below are the
benefits of each stakeholder:-
 Developer: There will be more development opportunities and increased return for the
developer of that particular region.
 Local residents: Due to rapid increase in the ratio of visitors, income of local residents
also gets increased. Many local residents have employment only because of tourism
sector. Moreover, the infrastructure of the country will be developed at a fast pace which
will be ultimately utilized by nation only (Ashworth and Page, 2011). For example:
Currently, Qatar host 80 sports events annually and still focuses on increasing the number
of hosting events. In addition to that, its well-structured tourism promotes their rich
culture and history.

 Investors: At present, Qatar noticed the inflow of foreign investment which lead to
maximise country's opportunity in terms of higher return and better development.
 Government: The Government bodies of Qatar will get benefited from revenue received
from visitors in the form of taxes. This can further be utilised by the government for the
growth and development of the country.
1.2 Advantages and disadvantages of public/private tourism planning partnership
Private and Public Tourism planning can be outlined as collaboration between private and
public sector to achieve sustainability goals of long term in an effective manner. However, there
are certain advantages and disadvantages related to this which needs to be taken into account by
tourism sector are discussed below:
Advantages:
 Increases employment opportunity for local public. It has been figured out that with
Qatar' new vision, number of jobs has increased by 12% as most of the people have
employment only because of tourism source.
 As Qatar is focusing on increasing the proportion of hosting events, they need skilled and
talented workforce for accomplishing the same. As a result, they have increase the wages
or income of labour.
 Public Sector has collaborated with private tourism companies to resolve the problem that
was acting as a barrier in growth and development of tourism industry (Bennett, Lemelin,
Koster and Budke, 2012). The greatest and biggest advantage of public private
partnership is the development of country's infrastructure. Sometimes, the government of
Qatar provides heritage sites possession to private organization so that they can take care
of that in an effective manner. It is not possible solely for the government to take care of
hundreds of cultural and heritage sites.
 Public Private Partnership also aid the tourism of Qatar by making it a label or brand
which leads to increase the inflow of visitors annually. Last year, across 1.235 million
visitors crossed international boundaries and by 2030, Qatar is focusing on increasing it
to 1.8 billion. Contribution of all these visitors assists in making the country better place
to live and to visit.