UK College Sustainable Tourism Development in Qatar Report

This report delves into the concept of sustainable tourism development, focusing specifically on its application in Qatar. It begins by defining sustainable tourism and its commitment to minimizing negative impacts on local culture and the environment while fostering long-term benefits for the local population. The report then examines the concept of sustainability in Qatar's tourism development, aligning with the World Tourism Organization's definition of meeting tourist needs while protecting resources. It explores various tourism-related activities and their link to mobility and climate change. The report identifies factors that hinder sustainable tourism development, such as cost, weather, safety, and access to amenities. It outlines a seven-step planning process for sustainability, including defining objectives, identifying stakeholders, assessing existing information, recognizing regional specialities, addressing issues, analyzing them, and establishing guiding principles. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of sustainable tourism for Qatar's tourism sector, highlighting its role in strategic planning and future growth, and it also includes references from various sources.

Sustainable Tourism
Development
TASK 3

INTRODUCTION
 Sustainable tourism is the concept which is committed to make low consequence on local and environmental
culture and also help in future development of local people.
 This also refers to the activity level of tourism that is maintained in long term which benefits socially,
economically, naturally and culturally

P3.1 Concept of sustainability in tourism
development in Qatar
 Sustainable development in tourism includes or is defined by World Tourism Organisation (WTO) as meeting out
all need of the tourist who are visiting any place so that they could contribute into protecting and enhancing
opportunities for the future.
 This will also manage all type of resources like that of social, economic and visual need with maintaining
biological diversity, life support system and cultural integrity as well.
 There are also sustainable development products which are been operated towards collaboration with community,
local government and country as well who are not supposed to become victims of development within tourism.

CONT…..
 The concept of sustainability development in tourism is very much important for visiting any place at Qatar in
making healthy and positive impact upon environment, economy and society.
 There are many activities related to tourism like that of entertainment, nourishment, transportation,
accommodation, shopping and moreover travelling to one place to another.
 This concept of sustainable tourism is linked with that of mobility which will be including 2 main considerations
like that of effect of tourism on climate change and on fossil fuels as well.

P3.2 Factors hindering sustainable tourism
development
There are some factors which hinder or prevent the development of sustainable tourism like those mentioned below:
 Cost
 Weather
 Safety
 Access to amenities

CONT…..
Access to amenities
 It is included that each traveller who is travelling to different place
will be in search of access to better amenities is there is any lack of
access to accommodation then this will be creating problem for them.
 So people who are travelling to Qatar should be having easy access to
public transportation and should also be under their budgets.

P3.3 Stages in planning for sustainability
There are in total 7 steps within the planning of sustainability in tourism development in Qatar which are as follows:
 Step 1- What do we want to do?
 Step 2- Who are, could be or needs to be involved?
 Step 3- What is known?
 Step 4- What makes this region, place or product special?
 Step 5- What are the issues?
 Step 6- Analysing issues?
 Step 7- Principles or objectives to guide action

CONT…..
Step 1- What do we want to do?
 This will be defining aim and objective of this planning which includes clear defined to guide in working ahead.
 Including both long and short term goal so that they could further do the planning for sustainability.
Step 2- Who are, could be or needs to be involved?
 This will be important to analyse who are responsible for tourism, heritage and environment so that this will be
relating to any particular region of place.
 This will be ensuring right people are involved within the future activities and determining important issues as well.

CONT…..
Step 3- What is known?
 This will include study of source of information that would be relevant to process or project so that it
is able to locate available data on current market.
Step 4- What makes this region, place or product special?
 This is identifying speciality of region place and or product establishing these special values that will
recognising with current communication.

CONT…..
Step 5- What are the issues?
 Then it will include what are the issues which effect region or Qatar or factors that are affecting all activities of future. Survey
conducted by people or visitors of Qatar will be done in this part so that issues faced by them could be measured.
Step 6- Analysing issues?
 Then further issue will be analysed and prioritise according to issue and then preparing of summary of the gathered outcome or
information.
Step 7- Principles or objectives to guide action
 The 7th step in this planning for sustainability includes developing clear written statement so that further actions and principle
could be implemented in way of seeking agreement on them for the stakeholders.

CONCLUSION
 From the above report of sustainable tourism development, it is noted that this concept is very much important for
Qatar which is a destination tourism place.
 This will be helping development of tourism sector under having strategic planning and recommending ways for
the future growth.

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