The Role of Stakeholders in Sustainable Tourism: A Detailed Report

This report delves into the realm of responsible and sustainable tourism, emphasizing the roles of various stakeholders including tourists, governments, and the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). It highlights the importance of proper planning, environmental preservation, and respect for local cultures in fostering sustainable tourism practices. The report outlines the benefits of sustainable tourism, such as poverty eradication, job creation, and environmental protection, while also addressing challenges like lack of coordination and financial constraints. It underscores the need for a collaborative approach involving all stakeholders to ensure the long-term preservation of natural resources and the promotion of responsible tourism activities. The report concludes by emphasizing the crucial role of the UNWTO in establishing guidelines and promoting education to achieve sustainable tourism goals globally.

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Promotion of Responsible, Sustainable and Universally Accessible Tourism
Student’s Name
Institution of Learning

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Introduction
The United Nations World Tourism Organization is vested with the responsibility of
ensuring responsible and environmentally friendly tourism is maintained. The diverse tourist
sites include coastal areas that host water skiing activities. Also, there are views the attractive
coastal features, and hotels that offer accommodation, food, and sceneries like the national
museums and monuments. The preservation of the ecosystem and the natural resources to ensure
the future generation utilizes the same for pleasure and enjoyment. The UNWTO has a clear
layout of guidelines in ensuring the development of tourism. It is done to ensure the safeguarding
of the environment against damage and degradation (Fennell, 2019). The organization spells out
the international laws and regulations that ensure social and economic development derived from
sustainable tourism. In this commentary, the roles of the stakeholders in the tourism sector in the
promotion of responsible and sustainable tourism are explored.
Organization
The proper organization from the tourists, society, and governments for different
countries can promote sustainable tourism through diverse responsible ways.
 Proper planning
Make traveling plans that incorporate environmentally friendly tourism
alternatives in the schedule. For example, travel in the season has reduced the number of people
traveling to a certain destination to reduce congestion. Stay on the outskirts of the tourism
destination towns to ease the pressure on the city.
 Go green

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While staying at the hotels ensure lights are switched off and other electronic
gadgets to reduce the power consumption. Besides, request that your beddings be recycled to
save on water usage.
 Take care of the heritage places
It should be everyone’s responsibility to be cautious in handling the artifacts
found in the museums to increase its longevity and utilization in the future. Ensure children in
your company do not touch the monuments, which may lead to wear of the artifacts.
 Interaction with the local people
Take a walk around town and involve yourself in conversation with the people staying
around the locality. One should have an interest in what they do and be willing to learn some
words in their language, which would bring harmony between the tourists and the local
community.
 Respect the way of life of the local community
Involve yourself in the practices they carry on, such as attending a church service
while wearing decent clothes.
 Reduce the use of carbon-emitting vehicles on the road
The tourists should use a means of transport that is faster hence reducing the
carbon emitted to the atmosphere, causing pollution. Although not everyone would afford,
several tourists from one area can plan to hire one vehicle to ferry them to the tourist destination
instead of using different vehicles that would increase the amount of carbon emitted to the
atmosphere.
 Proper disposal of litters and used bags

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Tourists should develop the habit of ensuring the waste materials are properly
disposed of. Dropping litters on the streets and use of plastic bags should be highly avoided.
 Creation of awareness through the media
The media should be involved in creating awareness of sustainable tourism,
explaining the benefits that would accrue from embracing it. The government should use the
media in addressing the public the regulation it has put in place for the success of sustenance
tourism (Puja & Amit, 2016).
 Rejecting unlawful trade
Tourists should restrain themselves from involving themselves in illegal
commercial transactions that hurt sustainable tourism, for example, engaging children in sex and
purchasing items made from animal parts such as horns and skin.
 Reinforcing local community tourism
The local community should be encouraged to get involved in activities that
influence eco-friendly tourism. The community should be made aware of the benefits it stands to
gain from ecotourism.
Development
Further, the responsibility of development in tourism through the UNTWO’s role is
crucial in sustainable and responsible tourism. The organization draws a framework of guidelines
on how sustainable tourism should be carried out in its member states globally.
 The role of the United Nations World Tourism Organization
It fosters education on tourism and teaching. It encourages the execution of the world-
wide code of conduct. It works towards eliminating poverty by ensuring sustainable growth

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goals. It advocates for growth in social and economic sectors (Herman, Grama, & Stupariu,
2016).
 The Role of the Governments in Promoting Sustainable Tourism
Each country in the world has laid down rules and regulations for promoting
sustainable tourism. The governments formulate guidelines that provide an equilibrium
framework between tourism and environmental safeguarding (Fennel, 2019). The countries
should ensure they provide a program that ensures tourism activities are spread throughout the
year by encouraging domestic tourism. They ensure a worldwide connection to ensure
information is shared on the opinions of sustainable tourism. Setting up tactics that would ensure
environmentally friendly tourism activities are carried out in the attraction sites (Fletcher, 2018).
The governments should ensure the framework of policies they put in place should be consistent
with the objectives of the UNWTO on sustainable tourism.
 Benefits of Sustainable and Responsible Tourism
The benefits of involving in sustainable tourism are diverse. There is poverty
eradication in areas where sustainable tourism is practiced. The community within the locality
secures employment opportunities from the facilities like hotels and resorts. Development is
realized as various infrastructural frameworks are put in place to affect tourism, for example,
roads, restaurants (Mathew & Shreejesh, 2017). Promote diversity hence the preservation of
animals and plants in their ecosystem. Sustainable tourism promotes foreign exchange among
countries hence contributing to the revenue of the countries. Environment-friendly tourism
promotes diversity among people as they meet and interact. It eliminates the probability of
climate change brought by pollution of the atmosphere. Sustainable tourism enhances the
preservation of culture in society.

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Evidence
Responsible tourism has diverse impacts on society, countries, and the environment. There is the
creation of employment opportunities for the local community.
 The Impacts of Responsible and Sustainable Tourism
For example, construction of hotels around tourist attraction sites. The threat of climatic
changes and global warming would be eliminated due to the reduction of carbon effect on the
atmosphere. There is an integration of cultures between the local people and the tourists. The
community would gain from the reinforcements that would be given to the various programs that
support good courses, for example, elderly support programs. Embracing environmentally
friendly tourism that helps in safeguarding the environment from damage.
 Challenges Faced in Promoting Sustainable and Responsible Tourism
Sustainable tourism faces a spectrum of challenges in its execution. The lack of
coordination between the local community and the national government takes a long period
making the procedures of commencing society-based tourism complicated. People living around
areas with the capacity of environmentally friendly tourism lack the expertise and the skills of
implementing sustainable tourism. Offering tutorials to the local people would take a lot of time.
Scramble for control over natural resources, for example, land consents can cause trouble in
environmentally friendly areas. Lack of finances to develop facilities where they can offer
environment-friendly services to the tourists (Jenkins, & Mkono, 2015). Unlawful activities such
as poaching that lead to the killing of the animals and the extinction of some animal species. The
natural calamities such as the drought that leads to a lack of food and water hence leading to the
death of the wild animals in the ecosystem. There is a lack of awareness among the community
on sustainable tourism and how they can fully-fledged support tourism.

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Environmentally-friendly tourism should be reckoned by all the stakeholders,
including the government, travel agent, hotel owners, tourists, and the local community. The
guidelines on ecotourism should be well structured in spelling out the responsibilities of each
stakeholder in ensuring ecotourism is achieved. The problem the globe is facing in climatic
changes is because there is little being done about sustainable tourism. Safeguarding the natural
resources would ensure the future generation inherits a clean environment that would be free
from disease-causing agents in the atmosphere and water bodies. Tourist activities should be
regulated by the government to ensure they are performed responsibly. The economic benefits
thrived from tourism should not impede and surpass the long- term protection of the
environment.
Conclusion
The report has dealt with the diverse tourist sites which include coastal areas where water
skiing activities and view of the attractive coastal features, the hotels that offer accommodation
and food and the national museums and monuments. UNTWO plays a crucial role in sustainable
and responsible tourism. The organization draws a framework of guidelines on how sustainable
tourism should be carried out in its member states globally. It fosters education on tourism and
teaching. It encourages the execution of the world-wide code of conduct. It works towards
eliminating poverty by ensuring sustainable growth goals. It advocates for growth in social and
economic sectors
The preservation of the ecosystem and the natural resources to ensure the future
generation utilizes the same for pleasure and enjoyment. The UNWTO has a clear layout of
guidelines in ensuring the development of tourism is done following the safeguarding the
environment against damage and degradation. The organization spells out the international laws

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and regulations that ensure social and economic development derived from sustainable tourism.
In this commentary, the roles of the stakeholders in the tourism sector in the promotion of
responsible and sustainable tourism are explored.

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