Sustainable Tourism Development and Stakeholders in the USA

Tourism Environment
and Industry

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Understanding the tourism environment and the stakeholders at the tourism destination
country ........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Tourism environment refers to the travel to destinations where the fauna, flora, and
heritage of culture are the primary attractions. Within the tourism industry it is all about the total
of all businesses which directly provides goods and services in order to facilitate the pleasure,
business and leisure activities which is away from the home environment. The present report will
cover discussion about the concept of sustainable tourism and its principle for sustainable
tourism development in the destination country(Aall and Koens., 2019). In addition to this, the
report will cover analysis about the stakeholders which are involved in decision making of the
sustainable tourism development. Moreover, the report will cover discussion about the macro
environment factors which contributes into the sustainable development of the tourism
destination. The report also consist of the competitive micro environment and tourists which
motivates the factors that influences the demand of the tourism product.
MAIN BODY
Understanding the tourism environment and the stakeholders at the tourism destination country
Sustainable tourism refers to the concept which covers the whole experience of the
complete tourism which includes the concern for social, economic and environmental issues as
well. According to the UN Environment Program and UN World Tourism Organisation which is
defined as the tourism which takes into account of all its future and current economic,
environmental and social impacts. It also addresses the needs of industry, visitors, host
communities and the environment as well. There are certain principles for sustainable tourism
development in the USA which needs to be followed into appropriate terms. For the sustainable
tourism development it is important that to focus on the principles into appropriate terms. It
basically include using the resources into sustainable terms where the sustainable and
conservation use of resources which include social, cultural and natural which is crucial and also
makes the long term sense(Giddy and Webb., 2018). In addition to this, the next principle is
about the reduction of over consumption and waste as well that avoids the costs of restoring the
long term environmental damage. It is also about maintaining the biodiversity and promoting the
social, natural and cultural diversity which is necessary for long term sustainable tourism and
also creates the resilient base for the industry. For the sustainable development of USA country,
it integrates the tourism into planning within the national and local strategic planning framework.