THT3111: Environmental and Cultural Tourism - Report Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of environmental and cultural tourism, exploring its significant role in generating revenue and employing local communities. It examines the integration of public, private, and informational sectors, critically analyzes sustainability principles and the impact of climate change on cultural sites, and applies cultural management tools. The report investigates problems at specific cultural-heritage sites, recommending solutions for sustainable results, and proposes improvements to stakeholder management and sustainability strategies. The report emphasizes the importance of sustainable development, responsible resource management, and the need for conservation policies to ensure the long-term viability of the tourism industry. It also highlights the impact of tourism on the environment and culture, proposing effective strategies for responsible tourism practices.

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ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL TOURISM
Name of the Student
Name of the University
AUTHOR’S NOTE

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The report assessed here is to determine the implicarion and the development of the
environmental and the tourism involving culture in the world. Environmental and cultural
tourism plays an important part in the business of tourism and has been known to generate huge
revenues and sales in the market. The stakeholders involved in the tourism industry often employ
the local people and the tourism attracts a large number of tourists and people from far off places
who are very much interested in witnessing the environment and the culture of a specific place.
There are various concerns as well regarding the effectiveness of the practice of tourism and
whether the business of tourism poses a threat to the ecological and the environmental concerns
of the tourist places. The local people employed in the business of tourism must be taught about
the importance of the sustainable development and the importance the practice of sustainable
development has upon the business of tourism. The business of tourism also implies the practice
of the effective and efficient use of the management principles and the use of the conservation
policies so that the business of tourism is done in a matured way and without any malpractice.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................4
1. Integrate knowledge to analyse issues and trends regarding the role of the public,................4
private and informational sectors in Environmental and Cultural Tourism initiatives................4
2. Critically analyse the sustainability principles applied and the impact of climate..................5
change at cultural sites.................................................................................................................5
3. Apply cultural management tools............................................................................................7
4. Investigate the problems occurring at a specific cultural-heritage site and recommend.........8
logical and rational solutions to obtain sustainable results..........................................................8
5. Recommend improvements to the stakeholders’ management and appropriate......................9
changes to existing sustainability strategies or introduction to new ones....................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

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INTRODUCTION
The environmental and cultural tourism plays an important part in the business of tourism
and has been known to generate huge revenues and sales in the market. The stakeholders
involved in the tourism industry often employ the local people and the tourism attracts many
tourists and people from far off places who are very much interested in witnessing the
environment and the culture of a specific place. There are various concerns as well regarding the
effectiveness of the practice of tourism and whether the business of tourism poses a threat to the
ecological and the environmental concerns of the tourist places. The report presents a detailed
analysis regarding the effective and efficient practice of tourism in the world and how the
stakeholders and the people involved in the business of tourism can make a considerable impact
if they take up the Corporate Social Responsibility and follow the Sustainable Development
practices. The report also integrates and uses the existing knowledge regarding the maintenance
of the scarce resources and how this management of the resources can impact the conservation of
the tourist places in the world. The local people employed in the business of tourism must be
taught about the importance of the sustainable development and the importance the practice of
sustainable development has upon the business of tourism. The business of tourism also implies
the practice of the effective and efficient use of the management principles and the use of the
conservation policies so that the business of tourism is done in a matured way and without any
malpractice.

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DISCUSSION
1. Integrate knowledge to analyze issues and trending topics regarding the role of
the public sector, private and informational sectors in Environmental and Cultural
Tourism initiatives
Tourism is a sector of the economy which stands apart from those business activities
which have the immense scope and potential for gaining worldwide exposure and is driven by
the engine for the growth of the economy. The appeal of tourism is important and significant at
the domestic level and on the local level, the sector of tourism is presented as an important tool
in the development of the regional economy (Timothy, 2017). Tourism is used to avoid the
desertification and the stagnation, and it stimulates the potentialities of the under-developed
regions. Tourism being a very competitive sector, guides the companies to develop the synergies
to achieve the competitive advantage. In the aspect of tourism, public- private partnerships is
considered as one of the most important aspects of development of the region.
PPPs is considered as one of the helpful organization together between people in public
and social and private segments, in various territories of intercession which are innated to the
customary basis which is implied to the general population segment, however without grasping
an entire privatization process (Calabro & Della Spina, 2014). The basic start and parcel of PPPs
is to gether and encourage profit from all the gatherings of the required, through the assessment
and arrangement of their different assets and various kinds of objectives. PPPs are winding up on
a typical note, on the grounds that these are understood by the people of the administrations
assertions may have various and varied substantial and various kinds of advantages that are
quick, and the personal area is allowed to have access to the innovative and newer markets and
different openings. PPPs are defined as the various kinds of associations between the two
components of open part of the associations and area that are private and financial specialists in
the corporate world, with the goal that is focused on the aspects of origination, arrangement,
subsidizing, development of the property and supply of infrastructural and useful hardware or
administrative investigational aspects. PPPs are described in the terms of the sharing of
dangerous, venture, assets findings, obligational aspects and prizes related to it.

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Figure: Areas in Australia popular for eco-tourism
Source: (Roymorgan.com, 2018)

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2. Critically analyze the principles related to sustainable application and the impact
of changes in the climate of the different cultural sites
The effects of standards of Sustainable Development are basic with a specific end goal to
adequately build the capital and the age of incomes and save the biological adjust and also shield
the earth from the unsafe activity of the mechanical squanders and the release of contaminations
in the air. There are four fundamental standards of Sustainable Development. These are-
1. The Principle of Intra-Generational and Inter-Generational Equity:
a. The rule expresses that the interests and the advantages of the general population must be
dealt with while working together and enjoying the modern exercises. This is the management of
sustainable resources.
b. The improvement of the tourism exercises must not represent a danger to the natural
needs of who and what is to come.
c. The guideline expresses that the natural resources are passed on from one age to the next
age.
d. The needs of the present age must not be satisfied to the detriment without bounds age.
The improvement procedure must be done in such a route so as not to trade off the capacities
without bounds ages to address and satisfy their own issues and requests (Trinh & Ryan, 2016).
e. The rare assets which are available on the planet must be safeguarded for the future age
with the goal that the future age gets a satisfactory amount of the assets so as to satisfy their
necessities and requests (Lew, 2014).

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2. The Principle of Environmental Protection or the Sustainable Management of Resources:
a. This guideline expresses that the Sustainable Management of Resources must be
completed with a view to shield and present the planet from the abuse of the modern exercises.
b. The effectively rare normal assets must be utilized as a part of an exceptionally
reasonable and cautious way with the goal that the assets are safeguarded for the future
improvement (Coccossis, 2016).
c. Biodiversity is additionally viewed as a characteristic asset and highest need must be
appended for the security of the biodiversity.
3. The Principle of Social Responsibility:
a. In request to empower the Sustainable Development and to build up a superior nature of
the existence forms, the hurtful and the unsustainable effects of the creation and the utilization
exercises must be tended to legitimately.
b. The organizations must be done with the Principle of Social Responsibility and there
must be participation among the private and general society area.
4. The Principle of Community Equity or Public Participation:

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a. The exercises of the general population in the social orders and the networks must
underscore on the parts of general improvement of the general public and to ensure and protect
the regular assets for the successful administration of the characteristic assets.
b. The human capital is an imperative partner during the time spent Sustainable
Development and the general population must cooperate for the support and the assurance of the
officially rare characteristic assets.
3. Apply cultural management tools
There are various cultural management tools which can be effectively used in order to
apply in the tourism department. These are: -
System of Measuring Excellence for Destinations: The services offered at the destination
can be improved by measuring the amount of excellence offered at the destinations. In this way,
the ratings would reveal the amount of positivity a destination has in comparison to the other
destinations.
Scientific Research: The research should be done on the tourist places to determine the
amount of variability they offer as a tourist place in the opinions of the tourist as well as the
amount of harm the tourists have caused in the tourist places (Head, 2017).
Monitoring: The tourist places should be monitored for the assessment of the
sustainability issues. The independent groups which carries out annual surveys of four key
groups such as the business, the foreign tourists, the residents as well as the domestic tourists and
the data can be used to assess the feasibility of tourism (Tribe & Liburd, 2016).
4. Investigate the problems occurring at a specific cultural-heritage site and
recommend
Logical and rational solutions to obtain sustainable results
There are numerous problems which occur at the cultural-heritage sites. The most
prominent problems being that the heritage sites are in immediate need for reconstruction and
development. There are also reported construction for urban development which affects the
heritage sites and there is a constant threat of encroachment. The expansion of the industrial

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areas is also posing a great threat to the functionality of the heritage sites. The other aspect which
is posing a threat to the heritage sites includes construction of the transport infrastructure such as
roads, railways and airports. The threat emanating from the pollution of the groundwater, the air
pollution is immense, and it poses a major threat to the maintenance of the heritage sites. The
solution to these problems lies in the spending of the government regarding the safeguard and the
maintenance of the heritage sites. The government must spend some amount of money and set up
specialized bodies to take care of the heritage sites and maintain them thoroughly (Throsby,
2016). The heritage sites need immediate relief and assistance and they must be thoroughly
looked after by these services and government bodies (Quattrone, 2015). The setting up of the
government bodies can do a world of good for the proper maintenance and the conservation of
the heritage sites and will speed up the process of securing the heritage sites for the future
generations to witness and experience. These are some of the solutions which can prove
beneficial in the long run for the proper maintenance and conservation of the heritage sites
(Mosedale & Scarles, 2014).

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Meet the needs of the
tourists as they are the most
important stakeholders
Manage closely the eco
tourism and cultural tourism
companies.
The tour guides
Employees
Evaluate and monitor the
communities and the areas of
tourism.
The localities and the
surroundings
The government authoritative
bodies and regulatory systems are
the ones who have to be kept
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5. Recommend improvements to the stakeholders’ management and appropriate
changes to existing sustainability strategies or introduction to new ones
Figure: Stakeholder Analysis
Source: Author’s creation
The recommendations to improve the aspect of tourism is to engage the stakeholders to
take up the Corporate Social Responsibility and aim for the maintenance and the conservation of
the tourist places as well as effectively and efficiently use the resources which are scarce. The
waste resources can be recycled and reused properly by the stakeholders involved in the tourism
business (Du Cros & McKercher, 2014). The local people who are employed in the business of
tourism can be trained about the importance of sustainable development and the importance to
sustainable development can mean a lot of positive things and values for the maintenance and
valuation of the tourist places. The stakeholders and the people involved in the trade of tourism
can also implement policies and practices which emphasizes on the aspect of Corporate Social
Responsibility and seek to protect and conserve the natural resources so that the ecological
balance is maintained, and the environmental protection is done by the stakeholders and the
management bodies. These practices and policies will enable the stakeholders and the

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management leader to increase the revenue and the sale of profit in the business of tourism and
develop the tourism industry (Smith, 2015). There is immense scope regarding the efficiency and
effectiveness of the tourism industry if it is maintained properly.