Report: Planning, Factors, and Stages of Sustainable Tourism

This report delves into the realm of sustainable tourism, examining its core principles and the crucial need for effective planning. It begins by defining sustainable tourism as a balanced approach to development, encompassing economic, environmental, and socio-cultural elements. The report highlights the importance of conserving biodiversity, reducing negative impacts on local cultures and environments, and contributing to employment and income generation. It then analyzes various factors that can impede sustainable tourism development, such as cost considerations, safety concerns, communicable diseases, and climatic conditions. The report uses Qatar as a case study. Furthermore, the report evaluates different stages involved in planning for sustainability, including defining objectives, identifying tourism systems, and evaluating alternatives. The report emphasizes the need for communication and coordination, considering economic, environmental, and social dimensions for effective planning. The planning process includes defining objectives, identifying the tourism system, and evaluating alternatives. The report concludes by referencing several academic sources, providing a foundation for the information presented.

Task 3 : The need for
planning for sustainable
tourism

3.1 Introduction of the concept of sustainability
in tourism development
• Sustainable tourism, is an industry that develops a suitable balance between the
economic, environmental and sociology-cultural elements of tourism development.
It plays a vital role in conserving bio-diversity. It also attempts to reduce its effect
on the local culture and environment so that it may be forwarded to the future
generations while contributing to employment, generating income and conservation
of the ecosystems.
• Due to this, sustainable tourism enhances positive contribution of tourism to bio-
diversity conservation and therefore, helps in reducing poverty and obtaining goals
towards sustainable development.

Conti..
• In order to develop sustainability in tourism
development it is essential for ensuring balance
between environmental, economical and
sociology-cultural factors of tourism
development.
• The country takes effective actions such as
environment protection campaign, spreading
awareness among people to reduce waste
disposal etc.
• The sports events are conducted and organized
with the aim of promoting equality and cultural
values that support sustainable development
within the country and development of tourism.

3.2 Analyse factors that may prevent/hinder
sustainable tourism development:
• Tourism development many factors that
may affect directly or indirectly to the
development of industry.
• The traveller choose a affordable travelling,
cost is always a primary factor that can
affect the local an international travellers .
Crime in the society are also a significant
obstacles to achieve of sustainable
development .
• By developing conscious planning process
and its implementation of the objective in a
better and accurate way will help to achieve
the objectives easily.

Conti..
• Every traveller has a different experience that can be
classified in different parameters. Safety and cost are the
main concern of many travellers. The prominent issue is
renovation of the monuments and heritage buildings , to
maintain their authenticity not too much change in them.
If the building part is damaged so it is very difficult to
make same, labours are not capable to rebuild the same
thing. There are many factors that prevent the sustainable
tourism development in Qatar these are:
• Cost is the main factor that can affect the industry. The
traveller main aim is to travel at reasonable or low cost.
Cost is not limited to the ticket its overall costing like
food , resident and convince etc. are included .

• The another factors which impact on development is
safety. This the primary concern of any travellers because
when travelling in abroad or any other country.
Communicable diseases can also prevent the tourism
industry because when traveller returning to home
countries can be difficult . Just like swine flu which may
stopped many travellers to travelling abroad. Qatar also
uses safety feature for preventing the communicable
diseases which affect the tourism.
Conti.

Cont..
• The climate of a country is also a main factor
which will affect the tourism development.
The temperatures, rainfall, more frequent
hurricanes, droughts which affect the
travellers choice and preference. Qatar
climate is very hot desert climate in summer,
there is low annual rainfall in rainy season
and spring and autumn are the best times to
visit Qatar. Most of the travellers seek to mild
temperatures and little rain on vacation and
wet or cold weather is not too good for
tourism. National disasters hinder many
travellers from visiting those are, because
safety is a primary concern for any travellers.

3.3 Evaluate different stages in planning for
sustainability :
• To bringing sustainability requires a good communication and coordination
framework . Economic, environmental and social dimensions are also requires for
sustainability. The complexity of sustainability, different processes and
applications will have different effects. For planning sustainability it is thoughtful
implementation of the needs and to understand which need is implemented and
done on each stage of planning. In the market there is wide variety of stake
holders. Population growth, energy usage and supply, air quality, education access
and many other issue which is take through leadership.

Planning process
• Planning process is include the following stages
and stage of tourism planning process are:
• Define the objective: in this stage set the
objective of tourism planning which include
nation economy , social structure. Tourism
objective should have been deal with growth
which is lead to standard of living, employment
levels and opportunities for intellectual growth,
enhancement of the investment.
• Identify the tourism system: in this stage carry
out the survey on social and cultural patterns,
cultural and heritage attraction in the area.
• Evaluate alternatives of the analysis: in this
stage of tourism all the collected information
should be analysed

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