Sustainable Tourism Development in Northern Ireland

Running head: SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Sustainable Tourism

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Task 1..........................................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Identify and discuss how different stakeholders would benefit from tourism development planning
with reference to the chosen destination (P1.1).......................................................................................4
1.2 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of public-private sector partnerships (PPP) in tourism
planning and development at the chosen destination (P1.2)....................................................................5
Task 2..........................................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Outline the key steps of the tourism development planning process and analyze the features at
different levels such as local authority and national levels using your case study destination. (P2.1).....5
2.2 Explain interactive planning and evaluate the significance of interactive planning systems and
processes in tourism development in the chosen destination. (P2.1)........................................................6
2.3 Explain tourism impacts and evaluate a range of methods to measure those impacts (consider all
three impacts; economic, social and environmental) (P2.3).....................................................................7
Task 3..........................................................................................................................................................8
3.1 Justify the concept of sustainability in tourism development in the chosen country (P3.1)...............8
3.2 Discuss why sustainability is an issue through the analysis of factors that may prevent/hinder
sustainable tourism development in your chosen country. (P3.2)............................................................9
3.3 Identify and analyze the various stage of sustainable tourism development planning with an
example drawn from the case study destination. (P3.3).........................................................................10
Task 4........................................................................................................................................................11
4.1 Examine the issues of conflict of interests and evaluate the methods of resolving a conflict of
interests to ensure the future wellbeing using examples from your case study destination. (P4.1)........11
4.2 Analyse the implications of sustainable tourism development (STD) for balancing supply and
demand in your chosen destination. (P 4.2)...........................................................................................12
4.3 Evaluate the moral and ethical issues of developing and promoting enclave tourism with examples.
(P 4.3)....................................................................................................................................................13
Task 5........................................................................................................................................................13
5.1 Compare current issues related to tourism development at your chosen destination and an emerging
destination of your choice where the impacts of tourism are different (P 5.1).......................................13
5.2 Evaluate, with recommendations, the future development of tourism in both destinations (P5.2)...14
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................15
References.................................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
Northern Ireland has become a much more popular holiday destination for the people living in
the Republic. According to the latest tourist figures, it represents that 353,000 individuals living
in the state took trips to the North as well as spent $80 million in the first nine months of 2017.
In Northern Ireland, tourism currently creates revenue of $800 million as well as influences 4.5
million of visitors. Northern Ireland enjoyed overall growth from Great Britain, Europe as well
as North America in the first nine months till last year. Northern Oreland is one of the beautiful
as well as unique destinations within the British Isles. Such growth in the tourism industry
generates a huge number of jobs for the individuals that create overall development of the
country in an effective and efficient manner (McComb, Boyd, and Boluk, 2017).
In the recent, the Tourism is recently worth 4.9% of the Northern Ireland’ DP as well as also
sustains approximately 10,000 jobs. It represents that Northern Ireland is one of the attractive
places where visitors visit the most. Northern Ireland gets advantageous through significant
developments of tourism. It involves the opening of Titanic Visitor center as well as new visitor
center in Giant’s Causeway. Economic, social development at both of the regions and national
levels in Northern Ireland has occupied well-developed tourism (Healy, van Riper, and Boyd,
2016).
In the following part there will be a detailed analysis of sustainable growth of tourism industry in
Northern Ireland, challenges that they face as well as a way to enhance their services to grow in
the competitive market as well as, influences maximum amount of visitors in an effective
manner.
Task 1

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1.1 Identify and discuss how different stakeholders would benefit from tourism
development planning with reference to the chosen destination (P1.1).
Stakeholders for development of tourism in Northern Ireland are shareholders and workforces in
tourism, supporting authorities, local societies, customers as well as, suppliers of Northern
Ireland. The advantageous of tourism development in a country is to emphasize on stakeholders
that are indirectly or directly providing support to the business. Moreover, Northern Ireland
tourism development can entail the stakeholders in development procedure hence sustainable
development could be attained (Mottiar, 2016).
Economic development:
The tourism development at Northern Ireland destination would develop the employment for an
individual as well as, provides the chances to expand as well as, sustain within economic
developments. The economic development under tourism destinations would impact the
workforces as well as local communities of Northern Ireland tourism industry in terms of
obtaining high employment opportunities. Northern Ireland is focusing on increasing the strength
of economic by providing assistance to visitors who comes from different nations as it would aid
to increase revenues from tourism activities (Anderson, Bakir, and Wickens, 2015).
Community:
The local authorities and community would attain the high integration with the industry of
tourism as social and economic culture could be built in community for improving the services.
The communities would attain the benefits of resources and marketing at Northern Ireland
destination to attain the personal goal parallel for tourism development. The competition and
employment by tourism are two key considerations for the community of Northern Ireland
(Murray, Lynch, and Foley, 2016).