Sustainable Tourism Planning and Environment in Australia

Running Head: SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT
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1SUSTAINABLE TOURISM PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Identifying the Issues.......................................................................................................................2
Critique the structure.......................................................................................................................4
Policy planning Cycle..................................................................................................................4
Analysis of opportunities.........................................................................................................4
Indentify aim............................................................................................................................4
Explore options........................................................................................................................4
Selecting the best option..........................................................................................................4
Detailed planning.....................................................................................................................5
Evaluation and impact.............................................................................................................5
Implementing change...............................................................................................................5
Closing the plan.......................................................................................................................6
Critique the content..........................................................................................................................6
Compare and contrast......................................................................................................................6
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Reference.........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Sustainable tourism is considered to be one of the major perceptions nowadays. It can be
defined as an ideology that connotes a suitable balance between the environment, economy and
the socio cultural aspects of tourism development. Sustainable tourism is responsible to ensure
wide participation of the relevant stakeholders in order to achieve tourist satisfaction as well as
the covers up the environmental sustainability. In case of Australia, diversity in the ecology is
one of the main attractions for the tourists. It can be argued that 80% of the tourists are attracted
by the dynamic natural verities of Australian ecology. Henceforth, the purpose of this report is to
focus on the practice of sustainable tourism that is prevalent in Australia. During the discussion,
the report incorporates two tourism related discussion papers and develops a critical evaluation
by comparing the two papers based on policy planning cycle.
Discussion
Identifying the Issues
The first article is associated with the tropical Australian tourism and the initiatives. The
tropical Australia stretches from in the north of the Tropic of Capricorn with numbers of world
heritage sites and multi faceted cultural diversities. Through the discussion the author put
emphasis on the regional initiatives for the future of the Australian tropical tourism industry. In
fact the report on the tropical tourism industry in Australia also divides the discussion into
several stages. For an instance, the first theme depicts a connection between the development of
the tourism and the community well being. In addition to this, factors like cross industry
opportunities and reinforcing natural brands are also key aspects that the discussion paper is