University Essay: Sustainable Tourism Management and Development

This essay delves into the multifaceted aspects of sustainable tourism management, emphasizing its crucial role in fostering positive economic, environmental, and social changes within tourist destinations. It explores the ways in which sustainable tourism can contribute to achieving key objectives, such as poverty reduction through increased employment opportunities and support for local agriculture. The essay also examines the industry's potential to address gender inequality by creating diverse job openings and promoting equal opportunities. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of sustainable practices in marine conservation, infrastructure development, and the preservation of cultural and natural heritage, concluding that sustainable tourism is essential for achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

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The sustainable tourism refers to the idea of visiting a place as a tourist with the
intention of influencing the economy, environment and the society of the concerned tourist
place of attraction in a positive manner. The sustainable tourism aims to establish a suitable
balance among the economic, the environmental and the sociocultural aspects of the
development in the tourism industry. The sustainable tourism makes an attempt to minimize
the effects of tourism industry on the local environment and the culture of the concerned
place of tourism (Edgell Sr, 2016). The following essay deals with the ways in order to
achieve the six major goals of the sustainable tourism. The essay argues on the ways in which
the sustainable tourism might help in the creation of the positive changes in the matters
pertaining to the goals that have been addressed in the essay.
Poverty is an issue that can be perceived as both relative and absolute. The relative
levels of poverty are found in the matters that pertain to the comparison between the
standards of living that exist among the people who have been residing in the country. The
absolute levels of the poverty deals with the inability of a certain section of the society to
procure for themselves the basic needs of the human kind (Truong, Hall & Garry, 2014). The
various areas that are affected by the poverty pertain to the economic issues, the
environmental issues and social factors and the political factors. The sustainable tourism
might help in putting an end to the issue of poverty in the concerned areas by increasing the
number of employment areas in the concerned tourist spot. The major tourist attractions like
the beaches might help the local population to find scope for development in terms of the
financial issues (Saarinen & Rogerson, 2014). The huge number of the international tourists
in the modern economy might help in the eradication of the poverty that exists among the
underdeveloped nations of the country.
The sustainable tourism also proves to have a remedial effect on the hunger issues that
have been existing within the concerned countries. The sustainable tourism is observed to

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have been beneficial for the concerned society by promoting the sustainable agriculture in the
concerned society (Pillay & Rogerson, 2013). The tourism industry is capable of providing
for the demands and the support that is required for the production of the food, the incurred
costs for the required energy sources and the localized inter-sector growth in the economy.
The tourism industry also affects the jobs and the livelihoods that are led by the locals of the
concerned tourist spot. The resorts that are dedicated to the purpose of the tourism might help
in this activity by letting the tourists of the place take part in the activity of the preparation of
the food and in the process promote the activities like the agritourism or the agritourism as
well as the activities like the culinary tourism (LaPan & Barbieri, 2014).
The tourism industry might also assist the addressal of the issues that pertain to the
gender inequality and the empowerment of the women and the girls. The sustainable tourism
industry might help the empowerment of women through the creation of the various job
openings for them. The sustainable tourism industry might be helpful for the maintenance of
the gender equality as well as in empowering the women by enabling their participation in the
manufacture of the products that are popular among the tourists who visit the concerned area
(Ferguson & Alarcón, 2015). The major ways that might be implemented in order to achieve
the gender equality in the tourism industry is ensuring the equality in the financial assistance
and the opportunities of training and education that have been extended towards the locals
irrespective of their genders.
The tourism industry might also help in the promotion of the productive employment
among the various residents of the concerned area. The tourism industry might allow the
various job openings in the fields of the constructions, marketing, finances, guidance and
other such major fields (Ruhanen, 2013). The major openings that are facilitated by the
tourism industry are the areas that pertain to the food and beverage departments, gardening

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departments, the departments that are responsible for the decoration of the various places of
stay in the concerned tourist area.
The tourism industry is majorly dependent on the infrastructure of the concerned
region that has been chosen for tourism. The tourism industry tends to reach even the most
remote areas of the country thereby enabling the need for the innovation in the infrastructure
of the concerned area that might help in the growth in the tourism department (Jamal &
Camargo, 2014). This might help the government of the concerned area to exercise the
incentives that might be necessary in order to bring about the needed changes and
improvements in the infrastructure required for attracting the tourists.
The tourism industry might hugely affect the marine conservation in various ways.
The marine ecosystem of the world is highly affected by the activities that result in the
changes of the marine temperature and the increase in the acidification of the oceanic waters
due to the increase in the amount of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The sustainable
tourism must be linked to the various plans that are made in order to bring about the
preservation of the fragile marine ecosystems like the seagrass meadows and the coral reefs.
The sustainable modes of tourism might help to bring about a rise in the local awareness of
the financial value of the cultural and the natural sites and helps in instilling a sense of pride
among the concerned people regarding the local and the national heritage (Doiron &
Weissenberger, 2014). This in turn would instill an interest in the local residents regarding
the conservation of the same.
Thus, from the above discussion it might be concluded that the sustainable tourism
plays an important role in the bringing about a positive change in the environmental and the
social factors that have been presented as the sustainable development goals that are expected
to be achieved by the year 2030. The sustainability of the tourism industry might help in the

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addressal of the goals that have been mentioned within the sustainability development goals
that have been declared by the United Nations.

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