Sustainable Tourism Report: Planning, Development and Challenges

This report provides an overview of sustainable tourism, focusing on its application in Qatar. It begins by defining sustainable tourism and its importance in promoting environmental, economic, and social development. The report discusses the key factors that can hinder sustainable tourism, such as government policies and financial constraints. It then details the different stages involved in planning for sustainability, including legal requirements, financial targets, operational requirements, stakeholder expectations, and review methods. The report emphasizes the need for effective planning and operational strategies to attract visitors and achieve sustainable outcomes. The conclusion reiterates the significance of sustainable tourism for Qatar's development and highlights the role of various stakeholders, including tourists, the government, and businesses. The report references several academic sources to support its findings.

Sustainable tourism
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Cover Content
 Introduction
 Sustainability In Tourism Development and Importance of
sustainability
 Factors that may prevent/hinder sustainable tourism development
 Different stages in planning for sustainability
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
 Sustainable tourism refers to concept of visiting any where as visitors
and also trying to develop the positive affect on environment, economy
and society.
 In this, tourism can be include the primary transportation to general
location, accommodations, recreation, shopping etc.
 Travel and tourism is a larger sector that contribute towards economy
of country.

Sustainability In Tourism Development
 In travel and tourism,
sustainability is defined as
development process that
focus on social, environmental
and also economic
development of industry,
region and firm.

Importance of sustainability
 Improve social performance- Under this, sustainability is helpful in
make improvement in social performance of Qatar country.
 Improving environment dimension- The main focus of this dimension
on proper utilization of the natural resources in a better manner.
 Improve Economic factors- Under this, main focus of this
development is on make improvement in various factors for an instance
employment, taxes, income level and many others.

Factors that may prevent/hinder sustainable
tourism
 Sustainable tourism development signifies social, environmental and
economic aspects that will save firm cost which are operating in travel
and tourism sector.
 Provide the advantages to communities as well as some other
stakeholders through protecting environment, tourism policies, climate
changes, education level etc.
 Sustainable tourism development is helpful in using resources in an
effective manner.

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 Government policies- The
government policies of every
country is different from the
each other.

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Financial targets- Under this, cost is a necessary factor that impacting
tourism sector. Under this, government of Qatar invest its money for
make improvement as well as development of different destination
places.

Different stages in planning for
sustainability
 In current time period, planning for sustainability is very essential
which help in improving in overall organisational performance in
effective manner.
 The travel and tourism organisation mainly concentrate on developing
and effective planning and work on enhancing organisation
profitability.

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There are some steps of planning procedure of sustainability which are
described as under:
 Legal requirements
 Financial targets
 Operational requirement
 Stakeholders expectations
 Review and evaluation methods

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Operational requirement
 In this third stage, travel agency need to operate and regulate their
effective business functions in better manner.
 This will help in gaining attention of large number of visitors towards
respective agency of travelling.

Conclusion
 It has been concluded from the above mention report that sustainable
tourism is helpful in develop the tourism and its main focus on social,
economic and environmental development of destination places in
Qatar.
 There has been discussion about the different stakeholders included in
business of tourism such as tourists, government, business organisation
etc.