Striking Balance in Resorts: Economic, Social, Environment Goals

This essay delves into the multifaceted impacts of resort development, emphasizing the critical need to balance economic, social, and environmental goals. The author explores various types of resorts, particularly those in Australia, and highlights the potential benefits and drawbacks of such establishments. The essay examines the socio-economic significance of resort construction, including marketing strategies, the impact on indigenous communities, and the importance of sustainable practices. It stresses the significance of social and environmental factors in resort planning, alongside economic considerations. The essay concludes by advocating for a holistic approach to resort development, one that prioritizes inclusive development, environmental protection, and the long-term well-being of both the local community and the environment. The importance of balancing economic development with cultural preservation and environmental sustainability is also discussed, highlighting the need for careful planning, eco-friendly initiatives, and the avoidance of overexploitation of resources.

Running head: Striking the balance between economic, social and environment resort goals:
Is it just rhetoric in the resort environment?
Striking the balance between economic, social and environment resort goals: Is it just
rhetoric in the resort environment?
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Authors Note

Striking the balance between economic, social and environment resort goals: Is it just
rhetoric in the resort environment?
Introduction
Resort refers to any lace that provides recreation and entertainment especially to the
ones who wants to be on a vacation. Work has become the all-encompassing reality if one’s
life. The humdrums of life take a heavy toll in their day-to-day reality of life. Thus going to a
resort can help the person to revitalize their body and mind. There are different kinds of
resorts for example beach resorts, golf resorts, island resorts or luxury resorts. The
emplacement of resorts has severe economic, social and environmental impact. Australia
inhabits resort, which are mostly beach resorts and island resort. For instance Resorts like
Lady Elliot is a beach resort located in Australia. Australia inhabit great diversity of natural
resources like Great Barrier Reef, Whitsundays, Fraser Island, and Kiama and so on. These
places serves as an instrument of attraction for the people who has the wonder lust. In this
point, the business of resort can really provide the opportunity to the people across
transnational boundary not only enjoy their stay in a resort but also to display their natural
beauty. In the age of globalization and with the aid of technology and with the development
in the science, people are becoming disembodied from their specific location. This kind of
development has helped people to move across boundaries (Buning, et al., 2016). Migration
of people is not only happening interstate but international migration is in full swing. Now it
is very important to realize that ecology and economy do not play in airtight compartments
they influence each other. In addition, any overexploitation occurring in any of the sphere can
inhibit the development of the economy.
Socio-economic significance
Building resort in the exotic location should be planned and every steps should be
analyzed properly. Building a resort owing to the exotic landscape or seascape does steal
away the fact that it needs proper marketing strategies. It is very important to make people
realize about the kind level of comfort and the type of facilities that are available in resort.

Striking the balance between economic, social and environment resort goals: Is it just
rhetoric in the resort environment?
The scenic beauty, recreational activities, the basic arrangements of food and lodging and
other basic amnesties should be marketed properly. However, it is important to gauge the
proper implication a resort can have on the social and the economic section (Becken, et al.,
2016). Often building an exotic resort can have detrimental effect on the natural resources.
Indigenous people whose main survival depends on the primary sector are mostly affected,
resulting in ecological poverty. Thus, it is important to frame the goals of resort building in
such a way that will induce inclusive development. In this way, people from every strata of
social hierarchy will be able to participate in the development process holistically. Marketing
strategies often involves propaganda of stereotypes in order to attract tourist however this
kind initiative can cause marginalization of people who are not in the mainstream. For
instance, since Australia is famous for its beach resorts and advertising about their exotic
water sports like kayaking or scuba diving can serve as instruments of attracting tourist
(Basu, 2017). On the other side, underwater diving or water sport affects the ecosystem of the
particular space. The natural flow of the marine body is hampered and problem is not just
restricted a particular the adjacent places also are squarely affected (König, 2018). In fact, the
Great Barrier Reef is already whitening and it is getting difficult to implement the
precautionary measures. This is because of the tourist pressure. Thus, it is important to take
account of the environmental factors while setting up resort (Kovács, et al., 2016). Along
with the freedom, proper restriction should also be taken into consideration for setting up a
goal.
Socio-ecological factors
Social factors, environmental factors and the mostly importantly the human factors
plays an important role in deploying strategies of building a resort. Human being with aid of
technology can move across transnational boundaries (de Vita et al., 2015). In this way, they
become the carrier of their specific culture. Thus, the consumption pattern or their lifestyle

Striking the balance between economic, social and environment resort goals: Is it just
rhetoric in the resort environment?
will not be homogenous. This is very important for the resort builders to understand the
discrepancies that exist among the tourists. In the wake of cultural globalization, resorts may
promises avenue, which will impose the dominant mainstream ideas of recreation only to
attract more customers. Nevertheless, this kind of strategies can affect the perception of the
people differently. Unique and ecofriendly strategies should be encouraged where tourism
will not cause will not cause any hazardous problem.
Economic factors
Last but not the least the economic factors plays in an important role in the
development of the resort. People coming and staying in beautiful resort living their life to
the fullest allows them to unleash their hideous traits. However, this kind of development
affects the economy in multifarious ways (Molina-Azorínet al., 2015). Along with building
resort, if the resort is in an exotic spot tourist across different countries and this will bring in
the foreign remittance that helps the economy to grow. However economic development
should not take any precedence because development at disjuncture with social world and
environment can prove to have detrimental effects. Sustainable development where each
individual can participate in his or her own well-being should be encouraged. Excessive
tourist activities can also result in illegal and unethical practices like child abuse, higher
suicide rates, and drug or alcohol abuse and so on. If the resorts has to get executed the
entrepreneur must also be aware of the kind of practice their local inhabitant are involved
with. Again too much inclusive strategies should uproot the local people from their own
tradition (Du et al., 2016). Tourist industry allows people from various background to interact
in different environment. In this way, it allows multiple culture to interact with themselves.
Thus, construction of hotels or recreational facilities will affect the interests of the local
residents. They may feel threatened by the development projects and population growth.
Thus, it is very important to make people inform about the ongoing developmental strategies.

Striking the balance between economic, social and environment resort goals: Is it just
rhetoric in the resort environment?
Supportive paragraph
The construction of resort just not include economic or the commercial angle the
social and the environmental angle of the resort building should also be kept in while
planning to build resort. Tourist industry has direct impact on the economic development
because of the trickledown effect. People are able to engage in the petty jobs and thus can
earn profusely. Within the entire parameter of the tourist industries construction of resort play
an important role. This is because resort of luxury bungalow are the instrument of attracting
tourist worldwide (Tan, et al., 2017). It is very important to access the importance of the
constructing resort because the impact it create is multifold. The economic, political, human
and the environmental impact of the constructing resort should analyses carefully before
executing it. Execution of a resort plan is not always universal thus; specific studies should
initiated before partially executing it. Thus, it is important to strike balance between the
economic, cultural, and environmental factor because they influence the commercial aspect
of the resorts and it also affects the community in a holistic way. Wider importance of these
factors are just not rhetoric because they are quite significant when executed.
Conclusion
Thus, it can be concluded that along with economic factors, the social and cultural
factors need to be assessed. The particular goal that are mentioned in the entire essay
involves, proper marketing strategies, encouragement of participation of the indigenous
people, eco-friendly measures for increasing tourism, and avoiding over exploitation of
resources. However, resort do not always need any exotic location it can be executed in any
place but before the execution, it is very essential to know about the transport facilities and
other emergencies (De Vita et al., 2017). With an easy transport availability, it becomes
easier for the tourist to locate the resort and thus it become more convenient for them. The
builder of a particular resort thus needs to be very careful while implementing their plan.

Striking the balance between economic, social and environment resort goals: Is it just
rhetoric in the resort environment?

Striking the balance between economic, social and environment resort goals: Is it just
rhetoric in the resort environment?
References
Basu, P. K. (2017). Is sustainable tourism development possible? Broad issues
concerning Australia and Papua New Guinea. In Tourism and Economic
Development (pp. 140-149). Routledge.
Becken, S., & Wilson, J. (2016). Are tourism businesses’ responses to weather
variability a suitable precursor to climate change adaptation?. Worldwide
Hospitality and Tourism Themes, 8(5), 578-592.
Buning, R. J., & Gibson, H. J. (2016). The role of travel conditions in cycling
tourism: Implications for destination and event management. Journal of Sport
& Tourism, 20(3-4), 175-193.
De Vita, G., & Kyaw, K. S. (2017). Tourism specialization, absorptive capacity, and
economic growth. Journal of Travel Research, 56(4), 423-435.
de Vita, G., Katircioglu, S., Altinay, L., Fethi, S., & Mercan, M. (2015). Revisiting
the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in a tourism development
context. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 22(21), 16652-
16663.
Du, D., Lew, A. A., & Ng, P. T. (2016). Tourism and economic growth. Journal of
Travel Research, 55(4), 454-464.
König, U. (2018). Climate change and snow tourism in Australia. Geographica
Helvetica, 54(3), 147-157.
Kovács, A., Unger, J., Gál, C. V., & Kántor, N. (2016). Adjustment of the thermal
component of two tourism climatological assessment tools using thermal
perception and preference surveys from Hungary. Theoretical and applied
climatology, 125(1-2), 113-130.

Striking the balance between economic, social and environment resort goals: Is it just
rhetoric in the resort environment?
Molina-Azorín, J. F., Tarí, J. J., Pereira-Moliner, J., Lopez-Gamero, M. D., &
Pertusa-Ortega, E. M. (2015). The effects of quality and environmental
management on competitive advantage: A mixed methods study in the hotel
industry. Tourism Management, 50, 41-54.
Tan, S. H., Habibullah, M. S., Tan, S. K., & Choon, S. W. (2017). The impact of the
dimensions of environmental performance on firm performance in travel and
tourism industry. Journal of environmental management, 203, 603-611.