Report on Tourism Planning: Stakeholder Benefits in Qatar, Challenges

This report examines tourism planning in Qatar, focusing on stakeholder benefits and the challenges involved. It explores the advantages of tourism development, including benefits for the government, travel and tour operators, and the overall economy. The report analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of public-private partnerships in tourism planning, highlighting the importance of investment and infrastructure while also addressing potential drawbacks like service quality concerns and cost considerations. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of effective management in tourism to ensure proper planning, improve stakeholder benefits, and promote sustainable practices. References include academic sources that support the analysis of tourism development, stakeholder involvement, and sustainable tourism practices.

Sustainable Tourism
Development TASK 1

INTRODUCTION
Travel and tourism are the fastest growing industry with the
maximum number of customers and stakeholders. Hence,
planning the operations related to Travel and tourism
industry is one of the biggest challenges for the tourism
service provider organisation.

1.1 Benefits for stakeholders from the planning
of tourism development in Qatar
In the execution of travel and tourism related operations,
various stakeholders will participates and play a very
crucial role in planning of tourism development in
measures in Qatar (Hatipoglu, Alvarez and Ertuna, 2016).
This will benefit the stakeholders in multiple ways.

Cont….
Some major benefits of tourism planning in Qatar for its
stakeholders are:
Government: The national and local government of
Qatar will look after the development and planning of
proper travel and tourism measures which will not only
help in improving the tourism infrastructure within the
country.

Cont….
Travel and tour operators: Suitable tourism planning
will help the travel and tourism service provider to plan
their tour packages and services as per the requirements of
customers.

1.2 Advantage and disadvantages of public/private sector
tourism planning partnership
The public/private sector tourism planning partnership
measures which will help in carrying out of the tourism
related services in an effective way.

Advantages of PPP
It provides the essential investment and infrastructure that
will be required for the setting up of the travel and tourism
enterprise into Qatar which would be making government
to plan accordingly.
The expertise of private sector and resources made
available by public sector enterprises will help in carrying
out of tourism development services in an effective way
(Gössling and et.al., 2016).

Cont….
Also, it helps in risk assessment and their rectification in
order to make the travel and tourism services more
feasible and customer friendly.
Ensure the delivery of high quality services and products
that will be provided to customers with proper planning of
travel and tourism services in Qatar.

Disadvantage of PPP
The public sector obligations will impact the delivering of
the services and quality of products offered to the tourists.
The private service based procurement services is more
costly and time consuming as compared to public
procurement (Bosak, 2016).
There is an uncertainty related to success of such alliances
between the private forms and government.

Conclusion
On the basis of analysis, this can be said that the proper
management of the travel and tourism measures are been
carried out that will help in proper planning of the services
and improving the stakeholders benefits in industry.

References
Hatipoglu, B., Alvarez, M.D. and Ertuna, B., 2016.
Barriers to stakeholder involvement in the planning of
sustainable tourism: the case of the Thrace region in
Turkey. Journal of cleaner production. 111. pp.306-317.
Bosak, K. ed., 2016. Reframing sustainable tourism. New
York: Springer.
Gössling, S and et.al., 2016. Optimizing or maximizing
growth? A challenge for sustainable tourism. Journal of
Sustainable Tourism. 24(4). pp.527-548.