Planning for Sustainability in Tourism Development: Qatar Case

This report justifies the introduction of sustainability in tourism development in Qatar, emphasizing the importance of maintaining social, environmental, and ecological balance, along with conserving cultural and traditional values and protecting flora and fauna. It analyses factors hindering sustainable tourism, such as excessive resource use and infrastructure development leading to resource wastage and environmental exploitation. The report also examines the stages of planning for sustainability, identifying key stakeholders like local government, tourism operators, and tourism organizations. It outlines the planning process, including background analysis of Qatar's tourism sector, development of sustainable strategies, implementation of these strategies, and the control measures needed to regulate activities and ensure sustainable practices are followed. The report references various academic sources to support its analysis and recommendations, providing a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism development in Qatar. Desklib offers a platform to explore more such documents and enhance your understanding.

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
Task 3: Understand the need for
planning for sustainable tourism

P 3.1 Justify the introduction of the
concept of sustainability in tourism
development with reference to Qatar
• Sustainable Tourism
Development can be
considered to be the
development of the tourism
industry
• It can be said that it
effectively helps in the
process of maintaining the
social environmental and
ecological balance.

Contd..
• Helped in the process of conservation of
cultural and traditional values
• Effective measures taken in order to conserve
the flora and fauna is considered under one of
the beneficial aspects of sustainable
development

P 3.2 Analyse factors that may prevent/hinder
sustainable tourism development with reference to Qatar
• Excessive use of the
resources
• It has been observed that
there is an effective need of
keeping a check on the
wastage of resources due to
building of infrastructures in
order to promote and attract
more and more tourists.

Contd.
• This in turn is effectively
creating wastage of many of
the resources and cutting
down of plants. It can be
observed that exploitation of
the non renewable energy can
also craft with setting for the
environment.
• These are the factors which
need to be considered in a
very effective manner to
promote sustainable
development tourism in Qatar.

P 3.3 Analyse different stages in planning
for sustainability with reference to Qatar
• 3.3.1 People involved:
• Local government: in the context of Qatar, it
can be said that the local governments have
effectively helped in the process of drafting of
various strategies for the sustainable
development with regards to local tourists’
attractions.

Contd..
• Tourism operators: as
influenced by the idea of
Kaplanidou et al. (2016), it
can be observed that
tourists operators are the
ones, who effectively utilises
resources in a very efficient
manner so as to serve that
high end customers.

Contd..
• Tourism organizations:
• These are considered to be the associations,
who are effectively aimed towards drafting of
various policies, which possibly argues
regarding maintenance of sustainable
development process.

3.3.2 Stages of planning:
• Background analysis: The first stage of planning effectively links to the
requirement that is required to be considered in the process of analysis of
different environmental backgrounds. This means that tourism
background of Qatar needs to be first analysed (Harris and Wise, 2017).
• Development of strategies: The stage effectively links with strategies that
are required to be developed as per the analysis of the environmental
background.

Contd..
• Implementation: The third stage is
the implementation stage where in
the implementation of the above
develop strategies is required to be
implemented.
• Control: The fourth page deals with
the control of different types of
regulations and legislations which are
required to be implemented by the
regulatory authorities this in Qatar
will help in the process of keeping a
proper check on the different types of
process and activities involved within
the attraction of tourism in Qatar

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