Sustainable Tourism Development: Planning and Impacts in Qatar and Mauritius

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................................................................ 2
TASK 1 UNDERSTANDING THE RATIONALE FOR PLANNING IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM INDUSTRY...................................................3
BENEFITS OF STAKEHOLDERS FROM PLANNING OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR............................3
MERITS AND DEMERITS OF PUBLIC/PRIVATE SECTOR TOURISM PLANNING PARTNERSHIP DRAWING QATAR..........................2
TASK 2 UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT APPROACHES FOR TOURISM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.............................................3
ANALYSING FEATURES OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR..............1
EVALUATING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERACTIVE PLANNING SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT WITH
REFERENCE TO QATAR................................................................................................................................................................ 2
EVALUATING DIFFERENT METHODS AVAILABLE FOR MEASURING TOURISTS IMPACT WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR.................3
TASK 3 UNDERSTANDING THE NEED OF PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM...........................................................................6
TASK 4 UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT ISSUES RELATED TO TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLANNING............................................18
4.1 EVALUATING METHODS OF RESOLVING A CONFLICT OF INTEREST TO ENSURE THE FUTURE WELL BEING OF DEVELOPING
DESTINATION SUCH AS QATAR.................................................................................................................................................18
4.2 ANALYSING THE IMPLICATIONS OF BALANCING SUPPLY AND DEMAND WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR..............................20
4.3 EVALUATING THE MORAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES OF ENCLAVING TOURISM IN QATAR........................................................22
TASK 5 UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIO-CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN DEVELOPING
COUNTRIES AND EMERGING DESTINATIONS.................................................................................................................................24
5.1 COMPARING THE CURRENT ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY AND AN
EMERGING DESTINATION WHERE THE IMPACT OF TOURISM ARE DIFFERENT.........................................................................24
5.2 EVALUATING WITH RECOMMENDATIONS, THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN THESE CHOSEN DESTINATIONS.
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CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................................................................. 29
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
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INTRODUCTION
Sustainable tourism is also referred to as eco-tourism or the cultural tourism or the nature
based tourism. Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Sustainable
tourism is tourism concerning the cultural heritage, environment as well as interest of the local
people. Sustainable tourism helps in creating positive effects on the society, economy as well as
most importantly on the environment (Buckley, 2012). This report will help in understanding
the user the rationale for planning in travel and tourism industry by analysing the benefits the
stakeholders can have from planning tourism development of Qatar. The advantages and the
various disadvantages in planning the development tourism development of Qatar is also
described. Different approaches as well as the significance of these approaches are also
described for tourism development of Qatar. Further, different stages are also analysed in
adopting this sustainable development. The various issues encountered during this
development are also further explained and lastly these issues are compared with the
developing country and their impact is also studied.
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TASK 1 UNDERSTANDING THE RATIONALE FOR PLANNING IN TRAVEL
AND TOURISM INDUSTRY
BENEFITS OF STAKEHOLDERS
FROM PLANNING OF TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT WITH REFERENCE
TO QATAR
The most important stakeholders in the
tourism development of Qatar are the
employees and the Investors. These
investors and employees are directly
connected to suppliers, local people,
authorities’ members, customers’ tourism
and many more. Stakeholders can directly
or indirectly get benefits by the business of
tourism developing sector (Waligo, et al.
2013). Further, the stakeholders seeks
themselves in this development process
involve themselves through various
approaches and practises which help in
achieving them the profit from the
business.
Society
This industry helps in building the
integration for the local tourists as well as
among the senior authorities. This further
helps in increasing the economic as well as
the socio-cultural aspects of the society.
Tourism industry provides the basic
resources and does marketing which
provides various offers for the customers.
Competition and the employment are the
two factors needed and considered by the
peoples of Qatar.
Development in Economy
This tourism industry in Qatar will be
providing the various employment facilities
which will ultimately builds an increase in
the economy of Qatar (Bramwell, 2011).
This tourism development in Qatar will be
focussing on bringing the employment with
the help of providing and attracting
customers by various tourists’ places. It led
to huge number of visitors emerging for
seeing various tourists’ places in Qatar
thereby increasing the revenue of this
industry.
Availability of Resources
The tourist’s development provides the
availability of the resources and marketing
of this development will help in providing
the increased growth in the services (Dodds
and Graci, 2012). This is further done by
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improving various areas such as the
planning factor and the rate of visitors.
Qatar is one of the most beautiful places in
the world consisting of various places of
sight-seeing thereby the availability of the
resources need is increased.
Cultural Responsibility
Tourists of different countries come to
explore the world. These tourists also come
to explore the different cultures of different
people which help in increase in sustainable
development (Jucan and Jucan, 2010).
further, various improvements must be
done by the tourists provider so that
further growth will increased by applying
and analysing various improvements.
Integration
As the number of tourists and visitors keep
on increasing, the country Qatar is
developing in terms of economy. Meeting
the needs of visitors will further help in
achieving the growth by providing them
with attractive tourist’s sites in Qatar.
Competitive Benefits
The sustainable tourism development in
Qatar will be using the required resources
very well. This can be achieved by providing
the employees to work efficiently so that
they would know to provide best quality
services for their customers.
MERITS AND DEMERITS OF
PUBLIC/PRIVATE SECTOR TOURISM
PLANNING PARTNERSHIP
DRAWING QATAR
Qatar is one of the most beautiful among
the various tourists’ places consisting of
cultural heritage, Spas, various sports
activity to do, various parks, beaches and
many more but in order to maintain and
improve them, they must require tourists
segment attention. The various merits and
demerits of public/private sector tourism
planning partnership drawing Qatar are
listed below:
Merits
The private/public sector tourism planning
partnership drawing Qatar will help in
developing the various employment
opportunities. Also, partnership will provide
the quality management.
The private/public sector tourism planning
partnership will gain the opportunities as
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well as the scope through utilising the
elements of each of the one involved in
partnership (Sebele, 2010). The merging of
public and private sector bodies will help in
achieving the Sustainable tourism
development in Qatar. Further, it will also
raise the market growth in the industry.
Various operations are conducted by these
private and public sector bodies which help
in utilising the available resources to them
as well as planning the various strategies
which will help in increasing its growth in
the market. Partnership will further
distribute their attained shares equally
thereby providing the best quality or
superior services to their customers.
Partnership of public and private bodies will
help in dividing the investment and the
authority equally. This helps in creating a
sustainable development as well as building
the economy growth.
Demerits
The partnership involving the public and
private sector bodies are highly affected by
the resources distribution as the in the
decision making process (Komppula, 2014).
Sometimes these two bodies differ in their
decision regarding the profit shared or
using the available resources thereby
creating an imbalance between them which
will restrict its development in the
forthcoming years which will also limit their
growth.
The responsibilities and the roles given to
the local people are highly affected by the
partnership concept. Sometimes, they can
also suffer from the imbalance decision
made by these public and private bodies
which will particularly create a doubt
among them regarding their roles.
TASK 2 UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT APPROACHES FOR TOURISM
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
INTRODUCTION
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The following report will help in understanding the different approaches required for tourism
planning and development by analysing the various features of tourism development planning
at different levels with respect to Qatar and evaluating the significance of interactive planning
systems and the various processes involves in tourism development of Qatar (Beaumont and
Dredge, 2010). Further, it will measure the impact of Qatar tourists by evaluating different
methods.
BODY
ANALYSING FEATURES OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AT DIFFERENT
LEVELS WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR.
There are various features of tourism development planning of Qatar which are conducted on
fur levels described below. These levels help in planning the structure of the tourist
development plan of Qatar. Following are the four levels:
National Level
It consist of those strategies required for achieving the goals which are short term and long
term goals for the purpose of developing the tourism of Qatar (Scharfenort, 2012). This level
helps in handling the accommodation facilities. Further, it helps in governing the legislative,
connection, policies and connection effects of the tourism.
Regional Level
This level consists of the various attributes, skills as well as the elements needed for the
development of various destination sites as well as building the framework for developing the
tourism of Qatar. The functions of this level include managing the availability of the resources
as well as various transportation facilities. Planning and applying strategy helps in handling of
different places of Qatar.
International Level
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This levels deal with managing the various tourists based sites which are attractive through
seeing the expansion of tourism in the nearby countries thereby maintaining the flow of
tourists in the Qatar (Smith, 2010). This goal is achieved with the help of various promotional
and marketing based strategies considered under the international standards.
Sub-Regional Level
This level deals with distributing the required procedures and policies among the sub-regions so
that these regions do the information gathering of the plan thereby creating a base for proper
implementation of these policies and procedures.
EVALUATING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERACTIVE PLANNING SYSTEMS AND
PROCESSES IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR.
The tourism development planning can be achieved through the partnership of public and
private sector bodies in Qatar. This partnership will further provide the various approaches of
planning including the effective processes which will further help in development process step.
The significance of interactive planning systems and processes in tourism development of Qatar
are explained below:
The sustainable development can be achieved by the participation of the local people as well as
the tourists which will further achieving the goals of sustainable development in Qatar.
Planning and the marketing strategies can be built by the various procedures as well as the
processes involving interaction which will help in improving the operations thereby increasing
the efficiency of the tourism development process. Information gathering regarding the
resources can be done by the conduction of various surveys which are essential at national as
well as regional level. Determination of the change in values and volumes of this industry are
measured by the senior authorities which provides the information gathering at the national
level (Black, et al. 2014). This level will further utilize this information gathering for the
purpose of bringing growth in these factors of the sustainable tourism development of Qatar.
The various impact of development of tourism on the policies and procedures adopted can be
witnessed by the government. The functioning of the business is effectively managed by the
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