Sustainable Tourism Management Strategies

The assignment provided a detailed examination of how the tourism industry can contribute to achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It explored the potential of the tourism industry in eradicating poverty, conserving environmental resources, promoting sustainable economic growth, and fostering innovation. The document highlighted the importance of considering local residents' needs when developing infrastructure and protecting coastal and marine ecosystems. It also emphasized the need for education to reduce impacts on ecosystems. Overall, it provided a comprehensive analysis of how the tourism industry can play a crucial role in achieving the SDGs by 2030.

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Executive summary
The purpose of this report is to elaborate how tourism will be able to fulfill the six goals of
Sustainable Development. This report will include discussion about the strategies of the tourism
industry to eradicate poverty and hunger, achieve improved nutrition and food security. Along
with that, strategies to achieve gender equality enhance economic growth, building resilient
infrastructure and conserve oceans, seas and marine resources are also discussed in this report.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.........................................................................3
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture....................................................................................................................................4
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls..........................................5
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive
employment and decent work for all...........................................................................................5
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and
foster innovation..........................................................................................................................5
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable
development.................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
Reference List..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Sustainable tourism can be defined as a form of tourism whose chief goal is to establish a
perfect balance between economic, socio-cultural and environmental aspects of tourism
development. This form of tourism attempts to minimize harmful impacts on the local culture
and environment so that the beauty of the above mentioned factors are available for the future
generation. Not only that, sustainable tourism also contributes to employment, generate income
and conservation of the ecosystem of the local area. In this report, elaboration of how tourism
will be able to fulfil the six goals of Sustainable Development has been discussed.
Discussion
The chief motive of Sustainable Development is to enhance the economic and
environmental in the society by stimulating action over the next 15 years. Considering the fact
that tourism has a highly crucial role when it comes to the development of the society and
environment, the following goals are developed to be fulfilled within 2030 with the help of
sustainable tourism (United Nations Official Document, 2018).
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
According to researchers, sustainable tourism is considered to be a great tool when it
comes to poverty alleviation across the world. The chief ways by which tourism can eradicate
poverty are as follows:
 The UN’s World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) states that tourism can be
considered as one of the crucial sources of foreign exchange earning in various

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poor and under-developed countries where there is limited option of alternative
economic development (Buckley, 2012).
 The direct tax obtained from tourism can be used in enhancing health, education
and infrastructure of the country.
 Considering the fact that tourists frequently buy a good variety of services and
products from the locally owned microenterprises, the poor sellers of the
mentioned shop gets highly benefited by it.
 According to UNWTO, wages of workers in highly popular tourist areas often
reach up to 4000 dollars per year and that amount is enough to bring their family
above the poverty line (Lee, 2013).
 The tourism industry had provided jobs to more than 260 million individuals
including youths and untrained people in 2012. This number is expected to
increase with time since tourism is considered to be one of the fasted growing
industries.
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable
agriculture.
In order to eradicate hunger, enhance nutrition, promote sustainable agriculture and
achieve food security, tourism management should concentrate on thinking locally that will not
only include serving the interest of the tourists but also the interest of the local individuals. If the
tourism industries take food-based approach, local farmers will be enabled to grow nutritional
foods using various agricultural practices. This, in turn, will not only enable them to feed their
families but will also enhance their income by selling the food products to tourism enterprises.
However, it has been seen that in several cases the travelers implement commercialized food

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chains instead of traditional food products of the local area (Niedziółka, 2014). Besides that,
food wastage is tourism industry is another major concern. Therefore the tourism industry must
ensure reduction in food wastage and incorporate local food products to fulfill the second goal of
SDG.
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
In order to fulfill the 5th Sustainable Development Goal, UNWTO in partnership with UN
Women, through its Ethics and Social responsibility program in order to bring gender issues of
tourism industries in front and promoting women empowerment and gender equality along with
encouraging the member states to implement policies to eradicate gender issues. The above
mentioned collaboration between UN women and UNWTO has resulted in an action plan to
enhance women equality and empowerment in the tourism industry (Ruhanen, 2013).
Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive
employment and decent work for all.
When it comes to job creation, the positive contribution of the tourism industry is
undeniable. However, the industry faces several numbers of challenges while implementing the
strategy to incorporate a good number of employees in the industry. The quality of job provided
in the tourism industry has become a highly questionable topic. The tourism industry must
improve the labor condition of both the male and female workers. However, there are several
positive examples that have taken place in recent years which assures that tourism industry is
progressing towards sustainable economic growth.

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Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
and foster innovation.
Out of the three core aspects of sustainable development goal 9, that is, innovation,
industrialization and infrastructure, sustainable and resilient infrastructure is considered to be the
most crucial aspect when it comes to tourism. Infrastructure facilities of a certain region not only
are a crucial part of tourism potential of that region, but it also determines the standard of living
to a great extent (Mowforth & Munt, 2015). While developing infrastructure, it should be kept in
mind that expansion of infrastructure due to tourism, must not result in environmental
degradation. In order to create sustainable infrastructure, the tourism industry must ensure to
give priority to the requirements of the local residents while developing infrastructure.
Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for
sustainable development.
Considering the fact that ocean, seas and marine resources support the livelihood of an
innumerable number of the individuals across the world, it is the responsibility of the tourism
industry to conserve these natural resources. Some of the major steps that should be taken by the
tourism industry are as follows:
 The coastal and marine region should be left intact and protected as a part of the
ecosystem.
 Near-the-shore constructions should be prohibited and no construction should be allowed
without proper sewage, waste and water management (Ellis & Sheridan, 2014).
 Tourists should be educated to reduce impacts on ecosystems.

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Conclusion
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that tourism industry has high potential to
develop the economic as well as environmental aspects of the society. Several steps have taken
by the industry to eradicate poverty from the world. Apart from that, in order to ensure
conservation of environmental resources the tourism industry has implemented beneficial
strategies. The other goals are equally given importance and it can be expected that by the end of
2030, the above mentioned sustainable development goal will be attained with the help of
tourism industry.

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Reference List
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Lee, T. H. (2013). Influence analysis of community resident support for sustainable tourism
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Mowforth, M., & Munt, I. (2015). Tourism and sustainability: Development, globalisation and
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Niedziółka, I. (2014). Sustainable tourism development. Regional Formation and Development
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Ruhanen, L. (2013). Local government: facilitator or inhibitor of sustainable tourism
development?. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 21(1), 80-98.
United Nations Official Document. (2018). Un.org. Retrieved 14 March 2018, from
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