Business Development: Sustainable Tourism in Qatar Presentation

This presentation examines sustainable tourism development in Qatar, focusing on the benefits to stakeholders, including investors, travel operators, and the government, while emphasizing the importance of preserving cultural heritage and natural resources. It highlights Qatar's efforts to promote sustainable tourism, generate revenue, and improve living standards. The presentation also analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of public-private sector partnerships in tourism planning, such as increased investment and employment opportunities versus potential mismanagement and political instability. The conclusion reinforces the crucial role of various stakeholders in sustainable tourism and the complex impact of public-private partnerships on Qatar's development. The presentation references Harris, Williams, and Griffin's work on sustainable tourism, as well as Ruhanen's research on local government's role in sustainable tourism development.

Sustainable
Tourism
Development

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Discuss stakeholders benefit
• Advantages and disadvantages of public/private sector tourism
planning partnership
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Mostly, every country focuses to promote tourism at their places to
increase the foreign exchange rate due to which every country promote
sustainable tourism development. In this presentation following topics
such as rational planning to promote travel and tourism industry.

Discuss stakeholders benefit
Stakeholders include investors, travel
operator, travel agents, investors,
shareholders, tourist, government and
so on. They basically plays a significant
role to achieve sustainable development
in Qatar by respecting the traditions,
custom as well as socio-cultural values.
Moreover, country must take effort to
enhance their inter cultural
understanding and must conserve its
living cultural heritage.

Continued...
Thus, the stakeholders of Qatar is already making valuable effort
for the better implementation of long term sustainable
development for its tourism. Additionally, Qatar had made
effective plan for its sustainable tourism by taking the care of
natural resources, environment as well as society. This has
landed up it creating employment, increase in lifestyle of
people, creation of new jobs with hike in salary that has lead
to growth and development of country.

Continued...
For instance, in existing case with the help sustainable
development Qatar has been able to generate huge tourism that
has increased the profitability of country by increasing the tax
rate as well as payment of interest. Furthermore, they have
formed strategic alliances will similar industry that helps in
catering huge tourist and has lead to overall growth as well as
development of country. Thus, it helps in building up the
valuable experience of tourism by maximising the return for
each stakeholder who are directly or indirectly associated with

Advantages and disadvantages of
public/private sector tourism planning
partnership
The primary purpose of public as
well as private sector is to achieve
long term sustainable
development. In order to satisfy
this purpose they even collaborate
with each other to gain better
understanding and expand their
serving area.

Continued...
In context to Qatar the partnership of public as well as private tourism
sector provide advantage to the country in following ways:
• Ensure investment opportunity which leads to better employment
opportunity as well as long term remuneration
• Increase in foreign exchange rate is one of the strengths of company
which majorly comes with travel and tourism sector

Continued...
Thus, there are several advantages associated with the public
private sector partnership. Such partnership due to which it has
been inculcated by Qatar.
On other side, there are some disadvantages associated with
public private sector that has to be faced by country in
following ways:

Continued...
Partnership among different sectors may cause mismanagement,
lack of coordination, chaos as well as conflict that affect the
overall performance of travel and tourism company.
Threat of political instability of risk which restrict the efforts of
stakeholders too along with that they may face the problem of
lack of natural resources.

Conclusion
From the above presentation it has been determined that various
stakeholders plays a valuable role for the sustainable development of
tourism as it generate revenue for the country and improve the living
standard of people. Along with that partnership of public private sector
positively as well as negatively affect the development of Qatar.

References
Harris, R., Williams, P. and Griffin, T. eds., 2012. Sustainable
Tourism. Routledge.
Ruhanen, L., 2013. Local government: facilitator or inhibitor of
sustainable tourism development?. Journal of Sustainable
Tourism. 21(1). pp.80-98.