Higher National Diploma: Unit 32 Sustainable Tourism Management Report

This report, prepared for Docklands Academy's Higher National Diploma in International Travel and Tourism Management, examines sustainable and responsible tourism management. It begins by describing the economic, social, cultural, and environmental impacts of tourism activities, emphasizing the sector's dynamic nature and its influence on various sectors. The report then explores the principles of sustainability, highlighting the roles of stakeholders such as governments and NGOs in effective tourism planning and management. Furthermore, the report evaluates how sustainable tourism is managed and developed in various tourist destinations worldwide. The analysis includes references to academic sources, providing a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism practices and their implications.

Unit 32 sustainable and
responsible tourism
management

Description on impacts of tourism activity generated by a
specific tourism attraction from an economic, social,
cultural and environmental perspective.
Tourism is one of the largest and dynamic international sectors . Therefore, rapid growth,
foreign currency flows and advanced management techniques influence numerous sectors
positively by making contribution to social and economy development. Henceforth, the impact
of tourism activities at economic, social and environment perspective-
Economic- The activities of tourism alters the economic structure of destination. Activities of
tourism is one of major components of source of capital and income to the local level of
people. Tourism aids to create employment of job opportunities to people.
Legal authorities needs to promote the destination as secure place and must increase financial
gain for stakeholders.

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Socio-cultural- The social impact of tourism development termed out as the changes in the
quality of life of residents of tourist destination.
The social and cultural impacts of tourism defined as way that assist to make contributing to
change in value system, individual behaviour, life style, safety level, interpersonal relationship
at the destination.
Environment- The impact of tourism on environment can be seen in both terms as positive and
negative. Therefore, the positive can be termed out as the taking care of culture heritage,
national parks and forest etc. On the other hand, camp fires are harming the forest and sports
activities damaging the corals etc.

Examine principles of sustainability implemented by
specific tourism business to meet stakeholders and
expectations.
All stakeholder of the sustainable tourism plays vital role to undertake tourism activities
properly. Thus, engagement of stakeholder as are-
Government- The tourism planning needs to be framed out in effective manner. It is
considered to be the capacity of all the tourist and visitors that undertake the tourism
activities without damage and harming the environment and culture of surrounding areas.
Non governmental organisations- They are considered to be one of the stakeholder in
order to advocates the sustainable tourism effectively.

Evaluation on sustainable being managed and developed in range
of tourist destination worldwide.
Tourists used to attracted due to the certain reasons towards the destinations. This is crucial for
destination to have certain set of features that can support in attracting the tourists towards the
country.
There are various gains that is available in the travel and tourism sector such as are social and
economic gains. In order to attract more people towards the country this is crucial to maintain
the characteristics that helps to influence the people to get attracted towards the destination.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Hassanli, N. and Ashwell, J., 2020. The contribution of small accommodations to a sustainable
tourism industry. Current Issues in Tourism, 23(3), pp.261-264.
Lee, S.W. and Xue, K., 2020. A model of destination loyalty: integrating destination image and
sustainable tourism. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research. 25(4). pp.393-408.

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