Sustainable Tourism Development in Qatar: A Comprehensive Analysis

Sustainable Tourism Development
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Task 1.........................................................................................................................................4
Task 2:........................................................................................................................................6
Task 3:......................................................................................................................................10
Task 4:......................................................................................................................................13
Task 5:......................................................................................................................................15
Conclusion................................................................................................................................17
Reference List..........................................................................................................................18
Appendix:.................................................................................................................................20
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Introduction
Sustainable development is gaining in importance as it is a development program that aims at
promoting tourism while placing the environment under minimum pressure. It also looks to
provide the local population with a better life style by providing them with employment. Its
main goal is sustenance and sees to it that development is achieved by positive means and
everyone involved in the process-the tourists, the tour agents and agencies, the hotels, etc. are
benefitted from the process. Not only the tourism industry but sustainable development is
discussed in various academic forums. It has become especially popular in recent times when
debates on global warming and its impacts on environment are at an all time high.
The following study will illuminate on the rationale of planned development in the tourism
industry and the various approaches by which it can be achieved. A detailed study on the
need of sustainable development and the current circumstances in relation to the tourism
industry shall be done.
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Task 1
P1.1 Discuss how stakeholders can benefit from planning of tourism developments with
reference to Qatar.
The main authorities in the travel and tourism industry are the local governments, hotels,
tourism agencies, tourists, investors and others. Qatar being an exotic travel location for the
world the government spends heavily on the improvement of the tourism sector.
For the Substantial development in the tourism industry, it is important to make successful
implementation of plan that is depended on the stakeholders of the tourism. For a destination
like Qatar, major stakeholders include tourists, developers, operators, investors, shareholders,
employee, management, and private and public sector like the host community and the
government tourism officials. With the involvement of all these, stakeholders are the major
unit which helps to attain and fulfil the goals of Substantial development in the tourism
industry of Qatar (Alhowaish, 2016).
Benefits of different stakeholders in the planning of Tourism Development in Qatar:
 Tourists: Tourists can be benefitted by getting the good quality of life while
travelling. It is important for Substantial Tourism planning to focus in giving good
quality services (Sharpley and Telfer, 2015) . Moreover, it also provides a valuable
and important experience for tourists by improving the quality of life community or
local people.
 Society: It is also very much beneficial for the society because the planning
development focuses on taking care of environmental and natural resources of Qatar.
 Employee: Employees of tourism and hospitality department are being benefitted by
the substantial planning because tourism creates a good number of jobs and also
provides an appropriate and sufficient salary, incentives and wages to the workforce.
 Investors/shareholders: Substantial planning can lead to high growth in this sector,
which is beneficial for Investors and shareholders as they are getting more in return.
 Tour operators: Substantial Tourism can increase the long-term growth, revenue and
profit of different Tourism operators, which also increases the interest payment and
tax payment for the government of Qatar (Harris, 2017).
 Public and Private Partners: Substantial planning can increase the co-ordination
between the private and public officials of the tourism industry that will lead for better
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public-private partnership, which will further help in giving different services in
overall good quality and sustainable development of Qatar.
Therefore, if these have been planned properly, then every stakeholder will get the benefits
from tourism development planning.
P1.2 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of public/private sector tourism
planning partnerships drawing examples Qatar.
Public and private sector in Qatar follows a policy of sustenance when it comes to planning
for the development of the travel and tourism sector. The collaboration between the two has
resulted in the achievement of goals and it has motivated further collaboration in other issues
of national concern (Giampiccoli and Mtapuri, 2015).
Following are some of the advantage and disadvantage of this partnership between the two:
Advantage
 Planning new tourist attractions and locating them in strategic location throughout
Qatar such that they come within the sight of the visitors.
 Organizing events that provide a wholesome experience to the tourists.
 Uniform consent on the types of facilities that should be provided to the guests.
 Formation of advertisements and brochures that helps in creating attraction for future
tourists.
 Helps in protecting the environment through accurate planning.
 Helps in creating consensus on the quality of services provided at different
destinations.
 Efficient strategizing of marketing along with large scale up scaling of infrastructure.
 Customers can get latest information about various tourist attractions across Qatar,
from both private websites as well as from government sponsored websites and
portals.
 As already discussed it generates large scale employment and ;
 Projects gets completed within timeframe as a result of this collaboration.
Disadvantage
 Expenses are inflated if there is no possibility of reaching a consensus in the planning
stage.
 Discourse might get long and arduous on sharing and distribution of profits
 Although there might be visible increase in the number of jobs created in the private
sector the public sector does not see any immediate effect.
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 Competitive nature of the decision making phase is remarkably reduced.
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