Critique and Comparison of Two Discussion Papers on Tourism Planning Environment

30 July 2018

TOURISM PLANNING ENVIRONMENT 1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Planning in Tourism Industry.....................................................................................................2
Discussion Paper on Promoting Investment in Tourism Industry in Nepal...............................3
World Tourism Organization’s Discussion Paper on Sustainable Tourism for Development. .3
Critical analysis of the discussion papers...................................................................................4
Comparison and Contrast of the discussion papers....................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

TOURISM PLANNING ENVIRONMENT 2
Introduction
Policy planning cycle refers to the set of activities such as setting up of the agenda,
identification of the issues, evaluation of the possibilities available in the light of the
objective set, adoption and the management of the alternative, and budgeting and review
activities with regards to the development of a new project (US Fire Administration, 2017).
Tourism industry follows the consultative or the participatory approach of policy formulation,
by making use of the discussion papers and thereby involving all the concerned stakeholders
(World Tourism Organization, 2018). The key principle behind the development of a tourism
policy is to yield the maximum social and economic contribution from the tourism industry of
a particular region and thereby contributing towards the long term and short-term objectives
of growth and progress of the concerned Government. The report aims to evaluate the role of
discussion papers in the policy formulation of the tourism industry. The report comprises of
brief analysis and comparison of the two discussion papers namely, “Sustainable Tourism for
Development” and “Discussion paper on Promoting investment in Tourism Industry of
Nepal”
Planning in Tourism Industry
An effective tourism planning policy is formulated in six phases (World Tourism
Organization, 2018). These are listed as follows.
Phase I- Preparation of an Issues Paper depending upon the region in consideration i.e. at
regional, national, international level.
Phase II- Dissemination of the Issues Paper in order to achieve clear identification of the
current and future aspirations of the range of the stakeholders.