Sustainable Tourism Development: A Qatar Case Study and Planning

This report explores sustainable tourism development, emphasizing its importance in the modern tourism industry. It examines the rationale and approaches to tourism planning, highlighting the significance of sustainability and factors affecting it. Issues impacting tourism development planning are compared between developing countries and emerging destinations, using Qatar as a case study. The report discusses stakeholder benefits from tourism development planning, advantages and disadvantages of public-private partnerships, and features of tourism development planning at different levels (international, national, regional, and sub-regional) within Qatar. It also evaluates the significance of interactive planning systems and processes, and different methods to measure tourist impact in Qatar, concluding with a PowerPoint presentation summarizing key findings and recommendations for sustainable tourism in Qatar.

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT
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INTRODUCTION
Sustainable tourism is defined as the tourism that takes the account of the current and future
social, economic and environmental impact s addressing the need and demand of the visitors,
environment, industry and the host community. In modern scenario, sustainable tourism has
become the need of the tourism industry. This report is an attempt to understand the concept
of sustainable tourism and to probe the various aspects associated with it. This report explains
the rationale and different approaches of tourism planning and development. It further covers
the importance of sustainability in tourism development and the factor affecting the
sustainability is also demonstrated in this work. It further covers the issues which are affects
the tourism development planning. The comparison different issues of developing countries
and emerging destinations are also done in this work.
The case study of ‘Qatar’ is adopted in this work in order to understand the topic deeply and
effectively. Qatar is a Middle Eastern country with rich culture and history. Qatar welcomes a
large volume of the international tourists every year. The visitor attraction Qatar and events
organised in the country attracts the large volume of the tourists. Qatar host around 80 sports
event and 150 business conference annually. In this report, the different aspects of the
sustainable tourism development are explained with respect to Qatar.
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TASK 1
1.1 DISCUSS HOW STAKEHOLDERS CAN BENEFIT FROM PLANNING OF
TOURISM DEVELOPMENTS WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR
It is imperative for a nation to focus on the
effective planning of the sustainable tourism.
Sustainable tourism delivers the various benefits
to the stakeholders. In tourism industry, the
stakeholders are the person who or group who
possess interest in the activity of the tourism.
The change in the tourism influences
significantly to stakeholders. The key
stakeholders of the tourism are local authorities,
investors, trade unions, professionals and
consultants, developers, host community, etc.
These stakeholders play an important role in the
growth and development of the tourism
industry in Qatar. The planning of tourism
development can deliver various benefits to the
stakeholders.
KEY BENEFITS OF THE PLANNING OF TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT TO STAKEHOLDERS
Employment opportunity
A nation requires significant manpower to
achieve the sustainable tourism development
which creates job opportunities. It reflect
positively on the nation’s economy as well as on
its enhances the income of the people (Akkawi,
2010).
Development of Facilities and infrastructure
The planning of sustainable tourism
development covers the improvement in
different facilities and infrastructure. The
accommodation and transportation facility of a
nation get improves to a significant level. It
helps a country in providing better experience to
Figure1 : Stakeholder of planning of sustainable
tourism development
[Source: Scieleo, 2018]
Co-ordination development
It requires collaborative effort to achieve the
sustainable tourism development. It enhances
the co- ordination among the stakeholders
which is beneficial for each of them.
Protection and conservation of the wild life
Planning of sustainable tourism can help Qatar
in conserving the flora and fauna of the nation.
It would be helpful in attracting the tourist as it
would be helpful in attracting the tourists.
Qatar tourism has adopted the proactive stance
approach for the development of the effective
strategy to achieve the desired objectives. The
planning of the sustainable tourism
development can reflect positively on the
income of the stakeholders and can provide
different facilities (Alhowaish, 2016).
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the tourists.
1.2 DISCUSS THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF PUBLIC/PRIVATE
SECTOR TOURISM PLANNING PARTNERSHIPS DRAWING EXAMPLES QATAR
Public- private partnership plays an important
role in sustainable tourism planning. The
coordination among the public and private
sectors is very important for a nation to achieve
the sustainable tourism development. There are
numerous advantages as well as disadvantages of
the PPP which can reflect significantly on the
sustainable tourism development in Qatar.
ADVANTAGES OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
IN TOURISM INDUSTRY
The key advantages of pubic private partnership
are mentioned below.
 Better infrastructure solution
 Faster project completion
 High quality projects
 Effective risk management
PPP delivers all the above advantages to a nation
which helps in achieving the sustainable tourism
development. It provides better infrastructure
solutions which can be implemented and
completed on time. The project can be
completed faster in high quality and that also on
time. It also help in developing effective risk
management system to avoid the risks which can
affect the project (Green, 2015).
Figure2: Qatar tourism
[Source: Visit Qatar, 2018]
DISADVANTAGES OF PUBLIC PRIVATE
PARTNERSHIP IN TOURISM INDUSTRY
Although PPP provides several benefits still there
few disadvantages of the public private
partnership in tourism industry which can
influence its effectiveness.
 Less number of private participants
 The government of Qatar cans loss
control
 Conflict of interest
Less number of private participants in Qatar give
rise to problem of cost effectiveness to the
government. The government of Qatar can also
control on the different partnership activities
which may lead to unethical practices. The
conflict of the interest can also occur in private
and public partnership.
It is important of QTA to consider the advantages
as well as disadvantages of public private
partnership in order to achieve the sustainable
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tourism (Foley, et al. 2012).
TASK 2
2.1 ANALYSE FEATURES OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AT
DIFFERENT LEVELS WITH REFERENCE TO THE QATAR
Sustainable development in tourism gives a tremendous growth in every important sector in
nation whether it is national, international or regional regions. Qatar should include some
major decision to develop their sustainable field in tourism which needs planning at different
levels. The planning objectives which enhance the utilization of resources, provide modern
world to society and create employment opportunities. Planning of Qatar divided in different
levels which is international, national, regional and sub-regional (Giampiccoli and Mtapuri,
2015).
INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
Development planning process at international level try to set the objectives which enhance the
transportation services of the country apart from this objective for giving best tourism
programmes which can attract large numbers of tourists. It is necessary for Qatar to make an
sources, strategies and conduct promotional events for received huge volume of tourists in
their country.
NATIONAL LEVEL
Planning for tourism development at national level gives various policies about physical and
organizational structure. This planning is very useful for domestic tourists and also extends the
routes for connecting the regions. Qatar should focus on this level of planning which provide
terms policies for their nation
REGIONAL LEVEL
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Regional level of tourism in Qatar should be set an aim to provide proper safety to visit
geographical areas of their country. This level strategies develop the internal parts and policies
of the country. Qatar must be work on regional marketing plans and level of education. This will
also become supportive plan for all major plans (Gardner, et al. 2014).
SUB-REGIONAL LEVEL
Aspects of this planning for tourism focuses on condition of sub-regions departments of Qatar.
This planning try to attract different type tourists from different locations of world with give
them well groomed comfort and serve several kinds of services. Qatar can received
overwhelmed positive response to go through this plans (Khodr, 2012).
The planning at different levels which is mention above is necessary for Qatar in tourism
development. All different planning helps to understand the needs and desires for tourism
development.
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2.2 EVALUATE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERACTIVE PLANNING SYSTEMS AND
PROCESSES IN TOURISM DEVELOPMENT WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR
Interactive planning is a process which helps to formulate the strategies to achieve the
objective. It collaborate all key team members and stakeholders which work upon organization
goals. This process defines where the organization stand and where they want to reach.
Interactive planning plays an important role in the tourism development. Interactive planning
helps deliver various benefits to a country which reflect significantly on the sustainable tourism
development (Alhowaish, 2016)
Interactive planning helps in enhancing the collaboration between local authorities and public
tourism regularity authority. It helps in making better planning to achieve the sustainable
tourism development. It is also ensure the cost effective use of the available resources and
minimizing the negative impact of various factors.
It is also beneficial for all the stakeholders as it consider the factors which can affect the
stakeholders. It results in maintaining effective coordination and communication between
stakeholders. The stakeholders such as local authorities, investors, trade unions, professionals
and consultants, developers, host community, etc. can get benefited through interactive
planning.
Qatar should focus on the interactive planning as it can be helpful in making better decisions.
Although there are various benefits of the interactive planning still there few demerits of it
which can affect tourism. For example, consider the opinion and feedback of all the
stakeholders can make the process more complex. It would be difficult for the Qatar to focus on
view of each and every stakeholder (Rizzo, 2014).
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2.3 EVALUATE DIFFERENT METHODS AVAILABLE TO MEASURE TOURIST
IMPACT WITH REFERENCE TO QATAR
It is imperative for a country to measure the impact of the tourist on the nation. The evaluation
of the impact of tourist help in understating the different aspect should be considered for the
proper planning of sustainable tourism development. There are various methods which can be
adopted to assess the impact of the tourist on a country (Sharpley and Telfer, 2015). Qatar can
adopt the below mentioned models in order to measure the impact of the tourists on Qatar.
Cambridge economic impact model
STEAM model
Pro-poor tourism
CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC IMPACT MODEL
It is an effective tool to measure the economic impact of tourism in a particular area or country.
In this model, the volume of the visitor is translated into economic term by estimating the
money spend by visitor based on their average spending per trip. The effective of spending can
be translated to estimate the impact in terms of jobs and turnover.
STEAM MODEL
Steam model delivers the indicative base by effective monitoring of the local economic impact
by the day visitors. In this model data is extracted from different inputs that are Information on
occupancy percentage each month, bed stock of every type of accommodation, number of
visitor attended the major events by month and TIC visistors by month.
PRO-POOR TOURISM
Pro-poor tourism is an effective method in which tourism is considered as an important
element to improve the level of poverty. It focuses on the development of rules and policies for
the betterment of the tourism as well as the poor (Malek and Costa, 2015).
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TASK 3
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
Slide 1
Slide 2
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Slide 3
Slide 4 Sustainable tourism deliver various
benefits to society, nation’s economy as
well as environment. It is imperative for
a Qatar to focus on the effective
planning of the sustainable tourism.
Slide 5 There are various advantages of the
sustainable tourism development
which can help a nation in significant
growth. The benefits of sustainable
tourism includes Maintaining ecological
balance, Protection and conservation of
natural resources, Preservation of the
cultural and traditional value,
Developing and maintaining clean,
green and healthy environment etc.
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Slide 6 There are numerous factors which can
promote or hinder the sustainable
tourism development. These factors are
wastage of resources, natural hazards,
exploitation of natural resource, crime
and violence, excessive use of natural
resources etc.
Slide 7 There are different stages of which can
be followed to achieve the sustainable
tourism development. This stages are
background analysis, development of
strategies, implementation and
monitoring and control.
Slide 8 It is the initial stage in which QTA can
probe all the different factors such as
issues, barriers and trends which can
influence the tourism development.
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