The Sustainable Hotel Environment

The Sustainable Hotel Environment
Given environmental concerns, tourism in the developing world is unsustainable. (Alternative view
point)
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Table of Contents
Executive summary....................................................................................................................1
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Tourism as a tool for developing country economics............................................................3
2.1 Employment opportunities................................................................................................4
2.2 Tourism brings competitive advantage............................................................................4
2.3 Elements of tourism infrastructure...................................................................................5
3.Tourism contribution in conserving sensitive areas and habitat.............................................6
3.1 Ecotourism for promoting responsible tourism................................................................6
3.2 Relationship between environment and tourism...............................................................7
3.3 Role of tourists is sustainable tourism development........................................................7
4 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................8
5 Recommendation.....................................................................................................................8
References................................................................................................................................10
Appendices...............................................................................................................................12

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Executive summary
Tourism is been considered as a major growth industry since past few decades due to
several factors underpinning its growth like increase in revenues, improved infrastructure,
changing lifestyle, increased leisurely time, conservation of protected and sensitive lands
along with international openness. The positive impacts of tourism are been generated over
the time which are directly related to social, economic, and environmental components of
tourist destinations and society as a whole. To serve the society, tourism is often manifested
according to primary and secondary activities and the majority of population residing in
tourist destinations act as an attractive component for the rest of the world. They not only
gain advantages related to international recognition, but also are offered with various
employment opportunities. In this regard, many developed and developing nations
encourages maximum utilisation of tourism resource to attract significant tourists yet
considers preserving their tourist spots to make it more competitive and attractive investment
opportunity for development of tourism infrastructure and other sustainability related
opportunities. On the other hand, many tourists have been seen considering negative effects
of tourism that can hamper environment and other climatic issues for which many of the them
initiated a trend that can enable ecological uniqueness and maintaining peaceful and
sustainable tourism opportunity for future.

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1. Introduction
Sustainable tourism is defined as an ideal framework of tourism that is capable of
operating tourism related systems after enabling profitable and healthy environment through
tourism industry. Sustainable development, on the other hand is the development that can
meet the requirements of the present world without compromising future capabilities and
generation for meeting their own needs. Sustainable tourism development is again a complex
phenomenon that can be generated from the above two definitions, meaning tourism
development promotes both development directions and volume in revenues in a way that
pressure on environment remains below level while involving with both existing and future
generations. Such definitions indicate significance behind supporting sustainable tourism
development and how it creates opportunity for developed as well as developing nations in
conserving natural environment and societal benefits (Yazdi, 2012). On this note, this report
proposes to identify and analyse alternative view point of one of the report topics, ‘Given
environmental concerns, tourism in the developing world is unsustainable’. This report will
present various factors that reveals how tourism promotes revenues, employment
opportunities, enhanced infrastructure, contribution towards conservation of sensitive areas
along with various other opportunities that not only promotes tourist destinations
sustainability, but its contribution in developing the world and its people.