Presentation: Sustainable Management in Lake District Tourism

This presentation provides a comprehensive analysis of sustainable and responsible tourism management, focusing on the Lake District as a case study. It begins with an introduction defining sustainable tourism and outlining the aims and objectives of the presentation, which include analyzing socio-cultural and environmental issues. The presentation then explores sustainable policies and practices implemented in the Lake District, such as involving local communities in tourism planning and strengthening local capacity. A critical analysis of these practices is presented, along with a discussion of the issues and challenges faced when implementing sustainable strategies, such as high costs and climate change. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of sustainable management for minimizing negative impacts and attracting tourists. A reflection section highlights the learning gained and its impact on communication skills and professional development. The presentation draws on several academic sources to support its findings.

Sustainable and Responsible
Management in Tourism

Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Presentation of findings (critical analysis)...................................................................................................3
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................4
References...................................................................................................................................................6

Introduction
Sustainable tourism refers to that tourism that includes the current and future economic,
social and environmental impacts that addresses the needs of customers, industry, host
communities and environment. This presentation is based on Lake District destination that is a
national park or region within northwest England. This includes enhance the knowledge
regarding aims, objectives , sustainable policies and practices, issues and challenges of
implementing sustainable policies and strategies.
Aims
To analyze the issues related with socio- cultural and environment by sustainable and
responsible tourism destination
Objectives
 To explore the issues related with socio-cultural and environment in sustainable and
responsible tourism
 To analyze the impact of socio- cultural and environment over tourist destination.
Presentation of findings (critical analysis)
Organization of presentation
To present this study team member decides to take a destination “Lake District” that is a
region and national park in Cumbria in northwest England. It is one of the popular vacation
destinations that is mainly recognized for glacial ribbon lakes, historic literary associations,
rugged fell mountains. It is a area that covered 2,362 km2 that represents its highest point that is
Scafell Pike.
Treatment of sustainable and responsible policies and practices at destination
The main importance of sustainable tourism development is adopting the sustainable and
responsible policies and practices at Lake District to represent the best vacation destination in

world. There are several treatments of sustainable and responsible policies and practices at
destination presented below:
Local residents and communities in tourism planning- It is one of the essential policy
and practice that is taken at Lake District. In this travel companies requires the participations of
local communities to collect the information regarding place so that large base of customers are
attracted towards the particular place and increases the royalty of Lake District within globe.
Strengthen local capacity to manage tourism- For sustainable tourism management
and operation, destination like Lake District need to equip of local businesses with high skills to
get high successful results.
Issues and challenges of implanting sustainable policies and strategies
There are several issues and challenges that are faced by tourism and Hospitality
Company at Lake District destination while implementing sustainable policies and strategies are:
Involvement of high cost- By implementing sustainable policies and strategies,
destinations like Lake District need to invest high cost where they adopts the use of natural
resources to attracts the attention of visitors in all over the world.
Climate change- One of the major challenge is climate change that is faced by
destination like Lake District. While implementing the sustainable policies and practices climate
change is the biggest issue that is uncertain in nature.
Conclusion
From the above presentation it is to be concluded that sustainable and responsible
management in destination is very crucial because it removes the negative impacts on economic,
socio-cultural and environmental aspects. This concept is beneficial for attracting large base of
customers. This presentation involves the issues based on socio-cultural and environment in
sustainable and responsible management within tourist destination along with impact of socio-
cultural and environment over tourist destination so that they present positive response over
respected destination. This presentation inculcates responsible and sustainable policies and

practices at destination that gives profitable results in managing resources. It involves issues and
challenges of implanting sustainable policies and strategies that was faced by tourist destination.
Reflection
I am very excited to complete this presentation on sustainable and responsible
management at destination. Due to this I have gained several knowledge regarding vacation
destination that attracts the visitor’s attraction. By involving in this presentation my overall
communication skill is developed and it also enhances my understanding related to sustainability
and responsibility management within tourist destinations. This presentation also helps me to
interact with customers that are highly beneficial for developing my professional career and also
creates more opportunities for my long term survival.

References
Books and Journal
Du Cros, H. and McKercher, B., 2020. Cultural tourism. Routledge.
Liu, J., An, K. and Jang, S.S., 2020. A model of tourists’ civilized behaviors: Toward sustainable
coastal tourism in China. Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 16, p.100437.
Miller, Z.D.,and et. al., 2019. Concepts for understanding the visitor experience in sustainable
tourism. In A research Agenda for sustainable tourism. Edward Elgar Publishing.