University Report: Sustainable Tourism Development in Corsica, France

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of sustainable tourism development in Corsica, France. It begins with an introduction to sustainable tourism and its importance, setting the stage for an examination of stakeholder benefits, including those of employees, local residents, and government ...Read More

SUSTAINABLE
TOURISM
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 How different stakeholders would benefit from tourism development...............................3
1.2 The advantages and disadvantages of public-private sector partnerships in tourism
planning.......................................................................................................................................4
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 The key steps of tourism development planning...................................................................5
2.2 Explain interactive planning.................................................................................................5
2.3 Explain tourism impacts and evaluate a range of methods to measure those impacts..........6
Task 3 ..............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Justify the concept of sustainability in tourism development in the chosen country............7
3.2 Why sustainability is an issue..............................................................................................7
3.3 The various stage of sustainable tourism development planning..........................................8
Task 4 ..............................................................................................................................................8
4.1 The issues of conflict of interests..........................................................................................8
4.2 Analyse the implications of sustainable tourism development.............................................9
4.3 Evaluate the moral and ethical issues of developing and promoting enclave tourism..........9
Task 5.............................................................................................................................................10
5.1 Compare current issues related to tourism development at your chosen destination.........10
5.2 Evaluate, the future development of tourism in both destinations.....................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................12
Books and Journals...................................................................................................................12

Introduction
Sustainable tourism meaning traveling to a place as a tourist and having a positive impact
on that location, impacts like on the economy, environment and society. Traveling to any
location with a business purpose or leisure or VFR (visiting friends and relatives) purpose is a
part of sustainable development. Tourism helps the locals to grow and improves the economy of
the country.
Corsica is in France which is an island in the sea Mediterranean, it comes under the 18
regions of France. This island is made up of mountains which is covering two-third of the island.
In terms of the economy of this country the tourism plays an important role. The three factors
this island has which attracts tourism are the mountains, climate and coastline.
Task 1
1.1 How different stakeholders would benefit from tourism development.
The different stakeholders in tourism development are employees, local residents,
business associations, competitors, government, media, local companies, tourism developers.
The major role is played by the government of the island. The planning of tourism is planned at a
national level. Corsica government not just improves the infrastructure and develop the country
but also promotes the country locally and internationally for tourism and assures the tourist for
there security and safety (Poudel, S., Nyaupane, G.P. and Budruk, M., 2016).
The local people who may resist tourism in there country so involving them was the basic
necessity. The local people of Corsica are so welcoming and soft spoken with lot of knowledge
about there cities that the visitors are very happy and satisfied with that. The local people of
Corsica also have a say in the decision making related to the tourism of the country.
The most important stakeholders are the tourists or the travelers because they visit the
attractions, destinations and sites of the cities which helps the tourism and the country grow. The
tourists will spread a word of mouth or by social media networks if there experience in the city is
going to be good and that will get in more tourism. To keep them having a good stay in the cities

of Corsica the locals and the government play an important role if they want there counties to
grow.
People like to tour and visit new places so tourism can even lead to employment and get
in professionalism. In a country like Corsica which is dependent on tourism that means they have
lot of tourists coming in and to entertain them properly the restaurants, buses, trains, etc need to
have more employees to make the visitors have a pleasant and comfortable stay in Corsica. There
is not many issues of employment in the city (Muresan, I and et.al., 2016).
1.2 The advantages and disadvantages of public-private sector partnerships in tourism planning.
Advantages-
 To reduce the expenditure in management risk there must be appropriate projects need to
be allocated, projects of PPP.
 The time consumption on projects does not occur and the infrastructure is done on time
which is very beneficial for the company.
 The private partners keep a check on the governments fake promises and expectations.
Private sector makes sure that the feasibility by the government on projects is appraised
earlier.
 The private sector allows the government funds to be given to the social and economical
areas of the city.
 For lower taxes public and private partners can lead in reducing cost.
Disadvantages-
 There is a risk for the private partners in public-private partnership. The cost of the
government can increase.
 The services and infrastructure that the PPP are providing can be more expensive.
 The agreement that the PPP have on their projects are complicated, long term and
inflexible in nature. These factors can influence the future activities.
 The procedure in longer in this process of the project and are most costly when its
compared with the traditional processes.
The PPP projects should have short focus on short team goals and aims. The PPP focus should be
on the profit of the people by working on the social welfare (Lee, T.H. and Hsieh, H.P., 2016).
There are few tools which are taken by the private sector of Corsica to help the government
sector which are structure a sustainable project, PPP framework has to be improved and

designed, There has to be assess of weather a project can be a PPP project or not and priorities to
their pipelines infrastructure.
Task 2
2.1 The key steps of tourism development planning.
The key steps of tourism development planning process which are financial planning,
objective setting, basic infrastructure, administrative structures, marketing promotions, territorial
planning, human resource planning, etc.
 Financial planning- One of the most important factor for the development of the tourism
development plan is the financial planning factor. The government and private sectors
decide as to how much should be invested for the development of the city. Corsica is
completely dependent on the tourism for there economic and financial growth. The
government uses the financial condition of the city very well so that they continue having
a good income from the tourism department.
 Human resource planning- The government is well focused on completing the basic
infrastructure of the country therefore they are having a high level of tourism in Corsica.
The high level of tourism, is helping the country and the people of the country to grow
efficiently. The country provides there tourist with the best of facility and to provide that
they need human power and that human power gets the employment for the people in the
country (Laitamaki, J and et.al., 2016). This process is good for the people and the
government.
 Objective setting- One thing that the people must focus on individually and for the group.
The basic infrastructure is clear and there should be objective and goals to achieve
otherwise there will be no proper way of doing things. Corsica and the government of
Corsica are very good with objective goals because if they do not do so then there will be
no growth in the country and people will have to face the bad consequences of this. The
objectives are clear then there are fewer chances of making mistake in the country and
the betterment of the country will happen. This method is used for the locals and the
nation's betterment (Rasoolimanesh, S.M. and Jaafar, M., 2017).

2.2 Explain interactive planning.
Interactive planning is used to keep the interest of the stakeholders and the experts of the
subject assisting the progress in a form of a setting of workshop. This can be done by engaging
them by discussing project plans and strategies to develop the project.
Tourism can get in a lot of problems with tourism evolution like overcrowding, traffic
congestion, mega events and superstructure. Corsica is very happy with the incoming of tourism
in there country because they are dependent on this factor. To give the tourist the best from
Corsica the government and the public sector comes together to solve all the troubles and
problems a tourist can face in the country (Kuščer, K., Mihalič, T. and Pechlaner, H., 2017). The
government of Corsica does not do over spending on the infrastructure and minimizing the
negative impacts on the locals of the country. The communication between the local developers,
private developers and the national developers have to be strong so that there are no mistakes
which could affect to the tourism of the country.
Corsica does not want to lose its social culture and want to get no environmental
degradation in the country. The education system is very good in the country so that they do not
lose the importance of that factor and that country wants to learn more and more so that they can
develop and have more tourism in the country.
2.3 Explain tourism impacts and evaluate a range of methods to measure those impacts.
Economic Impacts
Tourism is giving the world GDP a contribution of 4% every year and since the oil prices
are falling that will get in more and more tourism in all the countries possible. Corsica is
surviving with the economy they are getting from the tourism department and this is happening
from the restaurants, accommodations, entertainment, etc are few direct tourism impact. There
are always a positive and a negative impact of every case. Positive impact can be that there is a
better standard of living in Corsica, job employment and increase in wealth of an area. And the
negative impact can be that the social, culture and environment will get in danger because of
getting in economic condition better of Corsica (Coccossis, H., 2017).
Social Impacts
Corsica has its own social and culture which they follow. Tourism can effect that majorly
if they interact with the tourist too much and adapt to other cultures. There is no harm in
knowing the other cultures and social beliefs but following them will spoil their own social and

culture too which will not make them different from others. Positive and negative impact would
be that tourist will get attracted to there business when there is a feeling of home or familiar.
Corsica will start providing people with other culture's specialty and will not be able to make
there culture famous and will lose the touch of their own country.
Environmental Impacts
In environment tourism there is wildlife tourism, ecotourism, adventure tourism and
nature tourism are included. Corsica has coastlines, mountains and local villages which attract
many tourists to there country. The positive and negative impact of this can be that due to the
increase in the tourism in this country they can lose the beauty of the place with overcrowding or
people misusing there resources in the wrong way. Positive is that these factors of the
environment of this place attracts more tourism in a place like this (Cheng, T.M and et.al., 2019).
Task 3
3.1 Justify the concept of sustainability in tourism development in the chosen country.
Sustainable tourism is visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make a positive effect on
the social, environmental and economic growth. The traveling can be for business, leisure or
visiting friends and family (Chen, J.S., 2015). There is a fall in the price of oil which will get
some sustainable tourism in Corsica. Coastlines which are present in Corsica is making the cities
of Corsica very populated and that is not good for environment and social culture of the country.
The other factor which is effecting the country negatively form is the population of
people due to the mountains. Corsica is make of two-third of mountains and is an island so that
attracts more and more tourist in the country. People who are climbing the mountains leave
behind a lot of little on there way which is effecting the mountains or the nature and the beauty
of the place. The beauty of Corsica is in the nature it has and that factor attracts more and more
tourism to this country therefore this country is dependent on the income from this factor the
most.
3.2 Why sustainability is an issue.
There are various factors that impact a sustainability of a place. The environment plays
the greatest role. Corsica being the best known for its mountains and coastlines are now being a
problem for the places in Corsica. People have started visiting this country so much that there is
over population and has stopped attracting the tourist much because the beauty of the place has

been lost. Corsica is completely dependent on the tourism factor and this is impacting the
country very much.
There are people who are climbers and they litter the place very much because they do
not have sources to discard there waste. At the coastline there are dustbins added but the culture
and social are getting influenced by the invasion of the tourism. But Corsica is a very good host
for the tourist which are coming in the city and they try making the tourist also responsible for
keeping the environment as it was and not changes to be made to impacts. Over population can
be a big problem for the people of Corsica and people will travel lesser to this place if there is
over population. People prefer traveling to peaceful places which are very much there in Corsica
as of now.
3.3 The various stage of sustainable tourism development planning.
There are two aspects on which one can distribute sustainable and planning development
which are first for the local community and second for the quality of tourism. There is a good
quality in Corsica in present therefore they are not having problems which are related to the
tourism in the country (Carter, R.W and et.al., 2015). The loyal community makes sure that the
tourist they are serving are from a good quality and will not harm the country anyhow and any
way possible. No misuse of resources is allowed in Corsica and people are not allowed to do so
or they will be punishable.
By good quality of tourism means that there will be a development in the market which
will benefit the locals and the environment. Good quality of tourist does not mean expensive
tourism but a good tourist who has a value for money. There has to be an analysis of planning,
preparation, setting goals, examination of all the elements, etc. Factors must be really analysis
before the fact of starting anything new or continuing any old practice so that they do not have to
face any problems.
Task 4
4.1 The issues of conflict of interests.
There are a lot of conflicts that a country faces when the talk is of tourism. The country is
advertising itself on a high level because they are completely dependent of this factor (Bunakov,
O.A and et.al., 2015). The conflicts can be worked upon so that they do not have any future
problems related to this factor. The conflicts are as follows-
Social factors

The locals are not really happy with the fact that the people are losing there culture and
social importance in their own country. The products and services they provide to the tourist
have started to change and have started to come like the services which were provided by the
other countries. There is nothing unique left with the country because they are changing because
of the tourism coming in their country.
Environmental factor
The country is losing its environment beauty too because they are not having a good
quality of tourist coming in the country. There major focus is on grow the economy of the
country and developing but they have not focused on the negative aspect of the tourism fact.
4.2 Analyse the implications of sustainable tourism development.
There are a lot of tourist coming in the country which are spending a lot in the country
too. There is a sustainable development in the country due to this factor (Bonanno, G. and Lippi,
E., 2016). The factors which is making more and more tourist come in the country are the
mountain and the coastline and the people of the country because they know that there country is
dependent on this factor so they give the tourist the best of things possible. If they do not do so
then that will not be good for the country and the development of the country will not take place.
The government uses the income in developing the country to attract more tourist by providing
them more comfort and advertise there country so that more people can come and stay in Corsica
and they can gain the advantage from this factor.
Corsica is developing but that fact is that they are not looking at the disadvantages that
comes with tourism and that can harm the country very much later. There focus is on getting
more and more people in the country as tourist but the harm they are doing on the environment is
not good because could make them lose there beauty and there only survival can be in lose. They
must learn to deal with smaller situations from the very start because they would not want to lose
there charm.
4.3 Evaluate the moral and ethical issues of developing and promoting enclave tourism.
The moral and ethical issues of tourism in development are economic imperialism,
pollution, depletion, nature destruction, etc. Corsica's population is 3.39 thousand but they make
sure that they follow the ethics and moral of their country. The pollution is not visible in Corsica
and there is a ban on plastic related products in that country so that there waste disposal is not
hazardous to the world or their own country (Basu, P.K., 2017).

The country gets in the tourist who are willing to follow the code and conduct of the
country otherwise they are upsetting the people of Corsica. The locals have got in favor of
getting in tourist with great difficulty but now if the tourist are not well mannered then that can
become a big problem.
Task 5
5.1 Compare current issues related to tourism development at your chosen destination.
Issues faced in Nepal-
 There is a lack of communication and transportation in Nepal.
 There are not many factors for entertainment.
 Publicity of Nepal is not on a great scale.
 The country is not providing the tourist with safety and facilities for the tourist.
Issued faced by Corsica-
 Corsica has become very famous for tourist destination which is making the country over
populated with tourist.
 They trying to keep the city simple as it was like always which does not attract a
particular type of tourist.
 The country is providing safety to all the tourist but there are a lot of local crimes in the
country.
5.2 Evaluate, the future development of tourism in both destinations.
Nepal
This small country must try to develop on its infrastructure such as transportation. Local
transportation can also be a good source for flowing in economy in the people (Amir, A.F and
et.al., 2015). The country should try to advertise themselves so that they can get in more tourist
and the economy can improve of the country and if the economy improves then the country can
work on its infrastructure.
Corsica
The country can get in limited tourists per year and make sure that the tourist they are
getting in the country are a quality set of tourists so that they do not damage the beauty and
environment of the place. Corsica must try to develop in terms of comfort life and a good
lifestyle but there way of culture and not lose there culture and social aspect of themselves.

Conclusion
Corsica is a beautiful country all together which is completely dependent on the tourism.
Corsica is famous for the mountains, environment and coastlines they have and is very beautiful.
The government of Corsica is maintaining the tourist spots and not just that but the entire country
clean so that they can attract more and more tourist. They are not letting the local things die so
that they are popular for there local products as well. The people welcome the tourist with open
hands and make sure that they have a comfortable and a pleasant stay.

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