Understanding the Tourism Environment and Stakeholders in Thailand

Understanding the
tourism environment
and its stakeholders at
the tourism destination
country of your choice

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Tourism may be considered as one of the rapid growing industry across the globe. It become a
significant part of growing economy as many people from different countries are more interested
in visiting new locations. This industry helps in boosting revenue of nation along with creates
employment opportunities. In addition to that, it also contributes in development of infrastructure
na creates a sense of cultural exchange among people of different countries. This essay is all
about sustainable tourism along with its principles. Moreover, it will cover role of stakeholders
and factors that contributes in sustainable development. At last, it will cover tourists motivating
factors which influences demand of tourism product. This country choses for this essay is
Thailand.
MAIN BODY
Sustainable tourism may be referred as tourism that undertakes account of its present and future
economic, environment and social impact along with addressing needs of visitors, host
communities and environment (Robinson, Lück and Smith, 2020). It also contributes in covering
tourism experience as well as social, economic and environmental issues so as to improve
tourists experience. UNWTO( United nations World Tourisms Organisation), a custodian agency
who undertakes responsibility to monitor the targets of Sustainable Development Goal
(Holloway and Humphreys, 2019). Many countries are trying to capture attention of visitors by
opting sustainable tourism. This will help in elevating number of visitors and can minimise
negative impact on environment. There are various aspects of sustainable tourism which needs to
be considered. The negative impact of destination include damage to environment and economic
leakage. The positive impact of destination is that, it creates employment opportunities, wildlife
preservation and landscape restoration. Thailand government has taken initiative to elevate
tourism industry by opting sustainable tourism. It will help in boosting economic values and
people can get facilities of better infrastructure and facilities (Du Cros and McKercher, 2020).
Human activities are affecting ancient sites and monument and thus needs to be opt concepts of
sustainable tourism. It is needed to use environmental resources optimally which constitutes a
key element in tourism development along with maintaining ecological process. Moreover, it is
crucial to pay respect the socio-cultural heritage and traditional values. Reducing over
consumption and waste facilitates in eliminating and minimising cost of restoring long term
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