Sustainable Tourism Development: Planning, Factors & Qatar Case

This report provides an overview of sustainable tourism development, emphasizing its importance in preserving the environment while fostering tourism growth. It delves into the concept of sustainability in tourism, highlighting its economic, environmental, and social impacts. The report identifies factors that impede sustainable tourism development, such as varying stakeholder interests, and outlines different stages in planning for sustainability, from defining objectives to addressing key issues through research and stakeholder engagement. The context is Qatar, with a focus on balancing tourism opportunities with the preservation of the local environment and culture, referencing waste management, biodiversity protection and socio-cultural sustainability.

Sustainable Tourism
Development

Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Concept of sustainability in tourism.
• Factors that prevent sustainable tourism
development
• Different stages in planning for sustainability
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
• Sustainable tourism means development
of tourism without harming environment.
• The concepts of sustainability in tourism
have been explained.
• Sustainable development in the tourism
ropes Qatar to preserve the stability in
social, ecological, environmental aspects.
• Factors preventing sustainable tourism
development have been clarified.

Concept of sustainability in
tourism.
• Considers all the present and future economic,
environmental and social impacts on the
tourism.
• Done by identifying the requirements of the
visitors, industry trends and communities need.
• It diminishes the undesirable influences of the
tourism on the local bio diversity.
• The reduction in waste and applying waste
management is desired for making the
environment suitable for living.

Continued…
• It can make use of the utmost effectual
repetition to grow the tourism by shielding
the natural as well as assembled
environment.
• Thus socio-cultural sustainability can only
endorse the optimistic side of switching
the culture.
• It can augment the tourism occasion in the
country like Qatar and also decrease the
demurrals from the local inhabitants.

Factors that prevent sustainable
tourism development
• It indicates the economic, social and
environmental facets that will save the
charges of the organizations working in the
tourism sector.
• Delivers assistance to the societies and other
stakeholders by defending the environment
as well as preservation of environment.
• Variance in the curiosity level of the
stakeholders hinders the sustainable tourism
development plan.

Different stages in planning for
sustainability
• Stage 1: It define the aim of the sustainability
plan related with the time frames.
• The short term goals or long terms goals will
be defined.
• Stage 2: Here empathy of the stakeholders
linked with the tourism industry in Qatar will
be talked in order to meet their purposes.
• The purposes of all the stakeholders need to
be measured while designing the activities.

Continued…
• Stage 3: Here the places that have a
probable to attract the tourism in Qatar will
be measured.
• Stage 4: The subjects are needed to be
addressed by referring with all the
stakeholders.
• Stage 5: The issues are examined by
proper research.
• Stage 6: Ideas for sustainable development
are developed.

Conclusion
• Thus sustainability is vital for
development of tourism in Qatar without
harming the environment.
• The different stages of planning the
sustainability are explained in detail.
• Environmental, cultural and social
sectors prevent the costs of organizations
in Qatar.

References.
• Sharpley, R. and Telfer, D.J., 2015. Tourism and
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• Amiril, A., Nawawi, A.H., Takim, R. and Latif,
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