Sustainable Tourism Development: Planning and Impacts in Qatar and Mauritius

This report explores the concept of sustainable tourism development, focusing on the case studies of Qatar and Mauritius. It examines the rationale for planning in the tourism industry, analyzing the benefits for stakeholders and the merits and demerits of public/private sector partnerships. The report delves into different approaches for tourism planning and development, evaluating the significance of interactive planning systems and processes. It also investigates the need for planning for sustainable tourism, highlighting the triple bottom line theory and Buttler's model. Furthermore, the report addresses current issues related to tourism development planning, including conflict resolution, balancing supply and demand, and the ethical implications of enclave tourism. Finally, it compares the socio-cultural, environmental, and economic impacts of tourism in Qatar and Mauritius, providing recommendations for future development.

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.
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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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local people by following the norms of the government. Interactive system helps in determining
the negative as well as the positive impact of the development process (Paepcke, et al. 2014).
Partnership helps in distributing the resources equally for the purpose of using these in the
process of development. It is observed that the tourist readily influences the local people of the
country Qatar therefore for doing promotion; service improvement as well as quality
improvement should be done which can be achieved by acquiring the support.
EVALUATING DIFFERENT METHODS AVAILABLE FOR MEASURING TOURISTS
IMPACT WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR.
For measuring the impact of tourism industry of Qatar, different methods must be used.
Economy factor can be measured by the model which includes economic impact. Economy
influences and their result for trends and change can be measured by the steam model which is
used for monitoring it. The various methods and models are discussed below:
ECONOMIC IMPACT MODEL
This model specialises in estimating the number of tourists visiting place as well as their values
in the country. Further, it helps in calculating the revenue generated in the tourism industry
and helps in creating the various employment opportunities to the local people (Nair and
Choudhary, 2016). This model further helps in measuring and calculating the impact and
influence of visitors visiting this place and its effect on the business. Further, this model helps in
assessing the indirect as well as the direct impact of services spent on supply chain and earning.
It also provides various information for the development of the tourism to be carried out which
help in creating the final decision.
STEAM MODEL
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It stands for Scarborough Tourism Economy Activity Monitor which deals with information
gathering regarding the impact on tourist’s tour days plan and their changes. This model consist
of four inputs which results in final desired outcomes. These four inputs are given below:
First is information centre of Qatar helps in gaining information about the tourist. Second is
presence of tourists at the required place or destination. Third is for staying purpose, the
various accommodation facilities. Fourth is accommodation facilities could be monitored by
the various facilities of accommodation in Qatar and can be used in percentage.
These four inputs help in determining the impact of economy on the tourists. Poverty factor can
be analysed by a strategic tool called as Pro-Poor Tourism which describes the poverty changing
phenomena (Sridhar, et al. 2013). The number of visitors visiting a month or in a month can also
be taken into account by creating a ratio of poverty and lifestyle for the various as well as the
particular destination of Qatar.
CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC IMPACT MODEL
This is the enhanced model of the economic impact model and is based on the concept of top
down approach and is used for determining the economic impact on the tourists. It takes a data
which are of low level from various levels for the purpose of determining the volume as well as
the value of the visitors (Seetanah, 2011). This helps gives the accurate result in determining
the impact of economy on Qatar. This model consists of two different stages, the first stage
finds out the various values and as well as the volume of different categories of the visitors. The
second stage deals with describing the impact of the tourists on the local people.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that the features of tourism at different levels can be
studied at regional, international, sub-regional and at national level (Auffhammer, et al. 2013).
Further, it describes a role of partnership bodies in enhancing the growth of tourism
development of Qatar and the various methods such as steam model, economic impact model
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and the Cambridge economic impact model which is a further enhanced version of economic
impact model is used to measure the impact of tourists of Qatar.
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TASK 3 UNDERSTANDING THE NEED OF PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE
TOURISM
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Sustainable tourism effectively make use of the available resources for carrying out the tourism
development process of Qatar. Sustainable tourism is also known as the eco-tourism because of
creating less harm or no harm to the environment. Sustainable tourism mainly focuses on three
factors namely environmental, economic and the socio-cultural.
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Slide 5
Triple bottom line theory is used to measure the corporate performance by focusing on three
major factors such as environment, social and economic. It is also referred to as 3P’s namely
profit, planet and people. This theory is used by governments, NGO’s as well as enterprise. It is
also used to estimate and predict the impact on the world of the various activities of the
organisation.
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Slide 6
The education is not provided among the local people for the purpose of creating awareness
among them so this is one of the most important factor preventing the tourism development in
Qatar. Man made resources as well as the natural resources are very limited which also creates
problem for the availability of the resources sometimes preventing the sustainable tourism.
Economic policies also creates a problem for the number of visitors visiting the destination.
Labour market is also low.
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Slide 7
Buttler’s model consist of 6 stage development process described below:
• First stage consist of exploring the development plan by identifying the long term as well as
short term goals.
• Second stage consist of involvement of local people as well as the stakeholders for
contribution towards the process of development.
• Third stage consists of measuring the various destination sites through the interests of the
tourists and the services they want.
• Fourth stage consist of various issues and conflict arises among the stakeholders must be
consolidated.
• Fifth stage consist of various research to be undertaken for resolving the conflicts.
• Sixth stage consists of various ideas to be rejuvenated for the development process.
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TASK 4 UNDERSTANDING THE CURRENT ISSUES RELATED TO TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT PLANNING.
Following section covers the current issues related to the tourism development planning in
Qatar through the draft magazine (Swanson and Edgell Sr, 2013). It also describes the methods
of resolving a conflict of interests to ensure the future well-being of developing destination
such as Qatar thereby analysing the implications of balancing supply and demand of Qatar as
well as evaluating the moral and ethical issues of enclaving tourism in Qatar.
4.1 EVALUATING METHODS OF RESOLVING A CONFLICT OF INTEREST TO
ENSURE THE FUTURE WELL BEING OF DEVELOPING DESTINATION SUCH AS
QATAR.
Various issues were encountered in tourism industry such as conflict of interest. It is essential
to handle these interests of conflict which can be done by various methods described below:
HOST-GUEST RELATIONSHIP
This relationship models deals with
management of various hotels related
issues such as decreasing the traditional
value of the hotel for expanding the
business of their industry (Ariffin, 2013).
Hotel industry includes various facilities of
their services such as food, product
availability, assistance which clearly brings
out their cultures, values, art and their
tradition of that particular country.
TOURISM ENCLAVING
It helps in increasing the customer base of
the tourism industry thereby creating target
customers and attaining a high profit by
increasing the productivity (Nunkoo and
Ramkissoon, 2016). Tourism enclaving is
implemented by applying rules and
regulations. These methods are generally
implemented by stakeholders for giving the
various services in the development sector.
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DEMONSTRATION CONFLICT
Industry consists of various trends to occur
at different a stage which in turn creates a
conflict among the stakeholders. Each
person reacts to the trend differently and
this creates a difficulty in determining the
changes occurring among them (Anderson,
2011). These issues can be easily handled
by group working and proper
communication among them. Various
methods can also be implemented for
understanding the changes in the trends.
ACCULTURATION
Conflict of interests arises because of
difference in opinion among the different
cultures (Beckstead, 2010). The structure of
the Qatar country is single yet the societies
in this Qatar country brings the cultural
differences among them. Market
competition should also be analysed for
improving as well as enhancing the growth
of this tourism industry.
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP AMONG
STAKEHOLDERS
Decision making is the factor which led to
conflict of interest between the different
stakeholders. The other factors contributing
to this conflict are profits as well as goals
(Nunkoo and Ramkissoon, 2012). Additional
factors such as availability of resources,
planning, politics, and principles also give
rise to the conflicts. There must be
transparency between the communication
as well as between the various procedure
implemented for the purpose of decreasing
or reducing these factors which hinders the
development (Vičič, 2013). Proper
communication and management strategies
should be implemented for reducing this
barrier in the process of development.
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4.2 ANALYSING THE IMPLICATIONS OF BALANCING SUPPLY AND DEMAND
WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR.
Supply and demands play a vital role in
bringing the growth of any industry. The
services or the products which are needed
by the customer in less amount of time are
called as supply (Khodr, 2012). There is a
law in Qatar for providing the supply need
of the customer which states that an
increase in tourism price will further
increase the seller price of the tourism
industry. The phenomena or the process
required by the tourists for the purpose of
buying assets of market, services, and
products during their visit is called as the
supply factor of tourism. Qatar manages
these two factors by balancing between
them.
Various facilities of infrastructure such as
transportation, accommodation supply,
telecommunication gets involved in it. A
structure is designed for providing all the
available facilities to the tourists who is
known as superstructure. Development of
theme parks, museum, ski- slopes could be
done for balancing the supply need services
of the customer (Koo, et al. 2013). Various
advertising, marketing and promotional
events could also be done for attracting the
country’s image which will help in creating
the awareness among the masses of
different countries.
The demand factor dealt with the demand
of the services, products and goods as per
the need of the people (Vietze, 2011). Qatar
must maintain the balance between these
two factors for the purpose of achieving the
enhanced growth in the market. Following
are the four conditions of demand and
supply factor which are listed below:
If the demand factor is high and supply
factor is nominal, it will results in increase in
the service price because of the shortage of
resources.
If the demand factor is nominal and the
supply factor is high, it will result in
decrease in service price because of access
factor.
If the demands are unchanged and supply
factor gets decreased, it will result in price
growth.
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If the supply are unchanged and demand
factor gets decreased, it will result in price
reduction.
For obtaining the growth of Qatar tourism
industry, it is essential to maintain the
balance between the supply factor and the
demand factor.
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4.3 EVALUATING THE MORAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES OF ENCLAVING TOURISM
IN QATAR.
Enclave tourism consists of included or
inbuilt services which are provided for the
tourists thereby creating a hindrance for
the local people employment (Atan and
Abdul Halim, 2011). This has created a
negative impact on Qatar tourism industry
thereby the results are that the people are
migrating towards services of the hotel. This
enclave tourism doesn’t give its
contribution towards the economy of the
country as it generates very low revenue.
For an example, if the people prefer five
star hotel facilities then these facilities will
not be provided by the local people services
as it is a small organisation thereby creating
an imbalance between the moral and
ethical values of the tourists places or
destinations (Wendland, 2012). Also, the
cultural values and tradition are shown
differently at different levels. It will result in
decreasing the economic growth of that
country.
As the people are not aware of the
environment due to less people going there
resulting in creating a moral issues. Since
the people cannot gain the required
information needed for that destination
site, it becomes difficult for them thus
creating a low integration. If the tourists are
not happy by the services offered to them,
it will result in creating a conflict between
them thus degrading the violation (Su, et al.
2013). Employment opportunities for the
local people are also restricted due to this
tourism as they are unable to meet the
needs and demands of the tourists which
are being fulfilled by the hotels. In addition
to this, the various services provided by
enclave tourism such as food are being
transported and imported through different
countries of varied culture which everyone
doesn’t like (Bianchi and Stephenson,
2013). The disadvantage with the big hotels
arises when it comes to interactivity. The
staffs at the big hotels interact very low
with their guests. The local people interact
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a lot with the tourist guests. This is because
of the complexity arising at the business
level of the industry. So, the local people
don’t like this type of tourism which hinders
their employment and also the
opportunities.
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TASK 5 UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIO-CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL
AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND
EMERGING DESTINATIONS
INTRODUCTION
This report will help in understanding the comparison between the current issues associated
with the tourism development in emerging destination as Qatar and developing country as
Mauritius which has different impacts of the tourism industry. This report will further help in
evaluating the recommendations as well as the future development plan of tourism in these
two countries. Overall, this report deals in understanding the socio-cultural, environmental as
well as the economic impacts of tourism in these two emerging countries dealing each factor
briefly.
BODY
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.
Mauritius is island situated on the Indian Ocean and its famous for its beaches, coral reefs and
lagoons. The coral reef constitutes the richest biodiversity in the world. Mauritius is often called
as the island of emotion. It consists of population density of about 1.2 million (Esquinas-Alcázar,
2011). Generally, English and French language is spoken there. The economy of the Mauritius
country is huge as it provides large amount of contribution. The tourism industry helps in
increasing the 9% GDP of the Mauritius. Various festivals and events such as promotional were
done by this country tourism authority for enhancing the growth of its development plan
through the use of sustainability concept. Market research reveals that Mauritius is considered
as the prominent famous destination among various in the world comprising of natural
resources but is highly inadequate in some factors like security, environmental sustainability
and the safety factor.
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Qatar has achieved a lot in respect to the tourism industry and is further expanding in
enhancing the growth in different sectors of tourism. It has achieved 6.5% increase in the
economy sector and is rapidly increasing with respect to time (Brink, 2015). It further builds an
employment opportunities and the poverty factor has also reduced to a bit which shows the
positive impact on the growth of tourism sector. It contributes to about 11% in GDP.
IMPACTS MAURITIUS QATAR
ENVIRONMENTAL Various environmental
challenges were encountered
by this country considering
mostly the tourism. Soil
erosion and the various air
and water pollution,
deforestation disturbs the
environment.
Coral reef bleaching creates a
habitat destruction further
impacting the environment.
An estimation of about
increased heat capacity has
been observed for the working
hours.
One of the main reasons of
soil erosion is the
deforestation factor.
It has a warm climate and
composes of the damage to
the environment at the first
or initial level.
The environmental condition
is further affected by the
infrastructure development in
this country.
National parks, wildlife
sanctuaries, biosphere
reserves must be developed
for the protection of
environment.
Afforestation must also be
implemented and planted for
improving the conditions of
environment.
SOCIO_CULTURAL It has been greatly affected
by tourism development
industry.
Further, the culture of this
country is also affected by the
Integration of various tourism
development industry sector
creates a cultural issues
among the people of the
country.
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hospitality factor. It has been estimated that
the gambling and the crime
cases has been reported to
increase.
ECONOMIC It builds an employment
opportunity among the local
people of the country.
The hospitality industry
doesn’t provide the suitable
and the required facilities
needed which led to creation
of negative impact on this
tourism industry of Mauritius.
It has further achieved 40
billion US dollar as a profit
with the help of tourism
industry.
Investment in this industry
creates a various economic
issues for the country Qatar.
If the extra investment is
done for the other areas then
it will be utilised as an
emergency option in case of
encountering the emergency.
5.2 EVALUATING WITH RECOMMENDATIONS, THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF
TOURISM IN THESE CHOSEN DESTINATIONS.
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The negative impact of tourism industry of
the developing country as well as the
emerging country can be witnessed by the
use of technique called Sustainable
development. Since every person possess
different behaviour likewise they also
possesses different opinions which creates
a problem for stakeholders as well as the
problems in the facilities for the need of the
people (MacLeod and Abou-El-Kheir,
2017). It further builds a hindrance in
applying the sustainable development
concept. The use of resources should be
taken into account thereby ensuring the
future perspective of its availability so as to
achieve the short term as well as long term
goals. This will help in generating the
revenue thereby increasing the productivity
of the services and will also helps to ensure
the environmental safety and protection. It
considers three areas which are described
below:
Social
A healthy tourism industry will develop and
flourish only if there is equally involvement
of local people as well as the employees for
making the decision for the development
process so that they feel equally important
and thus help in the interactions of tourism
development sector. Further, it must also
include the women safety, banishing of
child labour as well as possessing the fact
that both genders are to be treated equally.
Environmental
The availability of the resources should be
taken into account for the purpose of saving
energy and water. The people of this
country must create an awareness
programme for creating awareness among
the masses (Clapp, et al. 2010). People must
be taught the advantage and the richness of
having biodiversity thereby bringing the
positive aspect of it.
Economic
Various factors contribute to the economy
of the country such as earning attributes,
employment as well as the competency.
Further, the growth of the economy can be
achieved by doing the foreign investments
properly.
CONCLUSION
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This report helped in comparing the various socio-cultural, economic as well as the
environmental impacts on the Mauritius as well as Qatar as well as various recommendations
with respect to both the countries are also mentioned. Comparison helped in gaining the
knowledge about both the countries. The main aim of this report was to do a sustainable
development of tourism for both Mauritius and Qatar.
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CONCLUSION
This report helps in understanding of the concept of sustainable development of Qatar. It dealt
with the various factors, issues encountered during this development process. It also explained
the role of stakeholders in promoting the sustainable development as well as the different
levels are considered for the tourism development sector as well as the planning strategy.
Further, presentation helps in gaining the precise and to the point information about the
concept of planning of sustainable development. Lastly, it ensured the in-depth knowledge
which can be used for future references.
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