Introduction to Sustainable Tourism Development

This document provides an introduction to the concept of sustainable tourism development and discusses the factors that prevent its progress. It also explores the different stages involved in planning for sustainability in the tourism sector.

Introduction of the concept of sustainability in tourism development
Sustainable development means tourism must give priority to social as well as environmental
concern by changing the ineffective method to effective method that concern about surrounding. It has a
wider approach that maximises the satisfaction of tourist by meeting the long term socio economic growth to
minimises the chances of loss. There are many destination places of Qatar that has made strategies to achieve
sustainable development in following ways:
• It includes role of local community people that engages in planning activity, maintaining
coordination as well as control process for better development process.
• Moreover, it include the roles of various stakeholders for the development process which helps in
the generation of quality employment.
• Further, they form a coordination among tourist, destination or attraction place as well as local
community.
Hence, sustainable tourism of Qatar emphasises on making optimum utilisation of resources so that
any future generate does not faces lack of resources and they can perform their operations properly. Thus,
triple bottom line is used to justify the sustainable tourism development within Qatar. Triple bottom line is a
framework that focuses on socio economic concern by adopting adequate corporate social responsibility.
This concept has helped Quatar to achieve sustainable development by focusing on people, profit and planet
in following ways:
People: Triple bottom line has not only helped Qatar to improve the quality of life but also worked
on the quality of live, social resources as well as concern for health and safety of people. It has decreased the
unemployment rate by engaging the people in productive activities.
Planet: On other side, this bottom line focuses to look for environmental concern by allocating
resources properly and enhancing the quality of all natural resources such as water and air by not letting it
polluted. Moreover, it reduces dependency on fossil fuel and reduce the waste of resources, time as well as
energy.
Profit: This bottom line of Qatar emphasise on making the profit by increasing tourism activity and
working on various factors such as tax, income, employment and so on. Thus, it helps in socio economic
development of overall country.
Factors that prevent/hinder sustainable tourism development
Sustainable tourism development of respective country can get affected due to various factors such as extreme
climatic condition. Like, if the climatic condition of country is not favourable then tourist may not prefer going
to that specific place. Additionally, if Qatar bears political risk or instability then people are less likely spend
their fund on it. Apart from that educational level is one the essential factors that can hinder the sustainable
development growth. Amongst it there are several other areas such as pollution, human right, popularity of
destination spots, social justice and so on that can adversely affect tourism rate.
Different stages in planning for sustainability
Sustainable planning is done to control any future disruptions as well as it helps in forecasting the tourism
sector by maintaining coordination among the team member. Along with that it concern to minimise the issues
that can affect the overall performance of organisation. Thus, it include various stages that helps the
organisation to achieve sustainable development, which are defined below:
• First stage includes planning by preparing the short term as well as long-term goal of organisation.
Here, strategies are decided based on resources to attain the particular outcome.
• At second stages available as well as required resources are identifies such as cash, talent,
technology that helps in attaining the goal.
• After that stakeholders are identified that helps the tourism industry to achieve sustainable
development. Accordingly, plans are prepared with stakeholders to achieve the plans.
• Last stage require monitoring as well as controlling activities which needs to be considered to
resolve the concern associated with the tourist needs of Qatar.
Therefore, tourism sector of Qatar make sure they follow each and each stage of sustainable
planning.
Sustainable tourism development