Contribution and Negative Socio-Economic, Cultural and Environmental Impact in Tourism Management

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Contribution and Negative Socio-Economic, Cultural and Environmental
Impact:
a. Destination Management and Marketing Organizations
The destination manager plays a very important role for the development of sustainable
tourism. To ensure that the location is being able to generate growth in the number of visitors
alone with maximizing the benefit to the economy, proper management of these destinations
need to be in place (Lasserre and Tetu 2015). This is where the role of the management along
with the marketing of the location becomes very significant because the increasing number of
visitors affects the economy in many other ways than just generating money; rise in
employment in the tourist sector. With great management and marketing, it becomes easier
for the destination to attract investment, grow the number of value-added jobs, be able to
recruit fresh talent and develop on the innovation locally. Destination managers are required
to coordinate and integrate the different elements that are contribute to the destination mix for
a specific location, geographically. They are also in charge of clearly defining a destination
management plan (Wang et al. 2018). The role of a destination manager extends to being in
charge of the branding and marketing of the specific location, and planning communication
activities that will make the offerings of the location known to the visitors. The marketing of
the specific destination needs to be driven by pure professionalism along with a mission and
vision that has been clearly defined.
When an individual is deciding whether to go on a cruise or not, their decision is based on
many complex factors (Jordan and Vogt 2017). The individual first must decide if they want
to go on a cruise trip at all, instead of a normal and conventional holiday, then comes their
decision in choosing the cruise line, where to go and then the choice of the ship. Cruise
destination managers must understand these factors and address their marketing strategies not

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towards certain individuals but towards the type of individuals that will positively contribute
to the economy of the destinations. However, based on these considerations it is almost
important to realize the reality of the situation where cruise ships usually market themselves
in order to ensure that the passengers are spending money on board, thereby rendering any
potential economic gain that a destination may experience obsolete.
b. Transportation Sector:
Transportation in the tourism industry refers to the movement of tourists from the place
that they are living in to the tourist attraction locations. It is important to note that the
transportation the starting and end point for the travel and tourism experience of an
individual. The rapid development of the transportation industry and the application of the
different forms of transportation has been a result of the overall increase in the international
tourists. Cruise travel has proven to have a very vital place in the tourism industry, because it
is the most expensive mode of travelling (Hung and Petrick 2016). This method of travelling
is considered to be a very investment heavy industry present in the world. In ten years since
1990, there has been an overall increase of 7.2% in the number of passengers taking cruise
vacations. Since cruising does not supply anything to any tourism destination, it is the
responsibility of the countries to make sure that they pay attention to security issues and the
creating of investment environment for the cruise companies to invest in their destination.
The port and city shuttles introduce many logistical and financial issues for many cruise
companies and their service providers. The only way that the cruise guests can avail efficient
supply of shuttles is if the cruise company has funded them in a way that each passenger has
to pay an individual ticket or it’s a provision provided by the destination and cruise line for
the passengers. Many individuals who are familiar with cruise trips agree that for there to be
a provision on the shore it will either be one where the passenger pays or the cruise pays, and