Qatar Tourism: Sustainable Development, Planning, and Challenges

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of sustainable tourism development in Qatar. It discusses the benefits of tourism development planning for various stakeholders, advantages and disadvantages of public/private sector partnerships, and features of tourism development planning at different levels. The report evaluates the significance of interactive planning systems, processes in tourism development, and different methods to measure tourist impact. It also justifies the introduction of sustainability in tourism, analyzes factors hindering sustainable tourism, and examines different stages in planning for sustainability. Furthermore, the report evaluates methods of resolving conflicts of interest, analyzes the implications of balancing supply and demand, and evaluates the moral and ethical issues of enclave tourism in Qatar. Finally, it compares current issues associated with tourism development in developing countries and emerging destinations, and provides recommendations for the future development of tourism in these destinations. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wealth of study resources, including past papers and solved assignments, to support students in their academic endeavors.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Task 1(LO, AC1.1, 1.2, M1, M2, M3, D1, D2, D3)..................................................................4
P1.1 Discuss how stakeholders can benefit from planning of tourism developments with
reference to Qatar.......................................................................................................................4
P1.2 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of public/private sector tourism planning
partnerships drawing examples Qatar........................................................................................6
Task 2(LO2, AC2.1, 2.2, 2.3, M1, M2, M3, D1, D2, D3).........................................................8
P 2.1 Analyse features of tourism development planning at different levels with reference to
the Qatar.....................................................................................................................................8
P 2.2 Evaluate the significance of interactive planning systems and processes in tourism
development with reference to Qatar.........................................................................................9
P 2.3 Evaluate different methods available to measure tourist impact with reference to Qatar
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Task 3(LO3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, M1, M2, M3, D1, D2, D3).............................................................12
P 3.1 Justify the introduction of the concept of sustainability in tourism development with
reference Qatar.........................................................................................................................12
P 3.2 Analyse factors that may prevent/hinder sustainable tourism development with
reference to Qatar.....................................................................................................................13
P 3.3 Analyse different stages in planning for sustainability with reference Qatar.................13
Task 4(LO4, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, M1, M2, M3, D1, D2, D3).......................................................14
P 4.1 Evaluate methods of resolving a conflict of interests to ensure the future wellbeing of a
developing tourism destination such as Qatar..........................................................................14
P 4.2 Analyse the implications of balancing supply and demand with reference to Qatar......14
P 4.3 Evaluate the moral and ethical issues of enclave tourism in Qatar.................................14
Task 5 (LO5, AC5.1, 5.2, M1, M2, M3, D1, D2, D3).............................................................15
P 5.1 - Compare current issues associated with tourism development in a developing country
and an emerging destination where the impacts of tourism are different. Your report should
be professionally presented such as using comparative tables.................................................15
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P 5.2 – Evaluate, with recommendations, the future development of tourism in these chosen
destinations...............................................................................................................................15
Conclusion................................................................................................................................16
Reference list............................................................................................................................17
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Introduction
Travel and tourism is one of the fast growing industries across the world. However, growth of
the hospitality industry has also had detrimental environmental including socio-cultural
influence in many countries. The sustainable tourism development though a new study in the
vast field of travel and tourism, supports and makes sure the social, economic, as well as
cultural well being of the countries and communities in which hospitality business takes
place. On the other hand, this business is expected to be a pouring force along with regard to
the establishment or the development of nature protection as well as maintenance of
country’s cultural values. This study would be covering all the necessary information related
to the sustainable tourism including specific examples of countries as well as disadvantages
and advantages associated to sustainable travel and tourism business.
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Task 1(LO, AC1.1, 1.2, M1, M2, M3, D1, D2, D3)
P1.1 Discuss how stakeholders can benefit from planning of tourism developments with
reference to Qatar.
Effective development and implementation of sustainable development planning is entirely
depends on the stakeholders’ involved in the hospitality sector. Sustainable tourism
development effects on the core business processes as well as stakeholders’ involvement to
the business activities also very much dependable on the actions taken for retaining
preferences of them. Main stakeholders of Qatar include travellers, developers, employees,
management, suppliers, investors, private and public industries like government and host
community and others (Brondoni, 2016). Stakeholders also get benefits from the overall
management related decisions for the tourism development. Given are the benefits from the
planning of tourism developments with reference to Qatar,
Travellers: Sustainable tourism not only determined to develop entire business processes and
functions involved in travel and tourism industry in Qatar but also determined to provide
facilities to their travellers. As per the case study, in the previous year, almost 1.235 million
tourists crossed international borders in single year. Among them a major portion came to
Qatar for various purposes including business, leisure and adventure purposes. Predictions
are depicting the fact that by 2030, this 1.2 ratio will be reached 1.8 billion (Visitqatar.qa,
2018). Therefore, travel and tourism industry in Qatar should be careful in developing their
services so that travellers could get full benefits and comfort by visiting to this place.
Developers: According to the case study, UNWTO and QTA have arranged current year’s
World Tourism Day, which is held on 27 September and concerned about Sustainable Tourism
development. This agenda is celebrated in the line with 2017 Global Year of Sustainable Tourism
for Development as well as devoted for unfolding contribution of travel and tourism to the SDGs
(‘Sustainable Development Goals’) (Visitqatar.qa, 2018). As per this agenda, it could be said
that travel and tourism organizations should be careful in developing effective relationship with
developers related to sustainable tourism for building a good future.
Workers: As guided in the case study, Qatar is becoming one of the largest and enriched
travel and tourism attractions in terms of providence of work related environment, sports as
well as for their better infrastructure in hotels. Development in the travel and tourism services
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also required an effective and productive workforce to control challenges and various
functions involved in the development process (Visitqatar.qa, 2018). Therefore, Qatar also
requires a good workforce to channelize their sustainable functions. For this reason, existing
travel and tourism businesses should take care of providing requirements and preferences of
employees. A proper planning process is needed to manage all the expectations of their
employees.
Suppliers: Suppliers of travel and tourism industry in Qatar is really important for
developing strength of functions. Suppliers help organizations in the hospitality industry to
provide customers various facilities as per their demands and trends. Maintaining proper
communications and taking care about needs of suppliers could be helpful in achieving a
customer friendly environment (Visitqatar.qa, 2018).
Investors: Investors are helpful in delivering supports and resources to the travel and tourism
industry as per their current requirements. According to the current scenario presented about
Qatar, the travel and tourism industry in this country has received around 6% growth rate in
tourist arrivals in 2012-2016 (Visitqatar.qa, 2018). This development also connected to
effective relationship with their investors. Developing and retaining this effectiveness would
help hospitality industry of Qatar in future.
Government: Government of Qatar is really responsible for taking care of the current and
future requirement of travel and tourism industry in this country. By doing this, Government
of Qatar is the capable of developing their country’s income as well as GDP. If the travel and
tourism industry works systematically by understanding governmental efforts and projects to
develop their infrastructure and functions, government of Qatar along with travel and tourism
businesses will able to attract more customers in future (Visitqatar.qa, 2018).
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P1.2 Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of public/private sector tourism
planning partnerships drawing examples Qatar.
The public and private partnerships could be defined as a process of collaboration between
private and public industry to achieve long lusting sustainability goals. The advantages and
disadvantages of this kind of partnership is listed below,
Advantages
 One of the core advantage of keeping an effective relationship or partnership with the
private and public sector tourism planning partnerships for Qatar is increasing a
specific area of Region. In terms of this country, private and public planning
partnerships would be helpful in attaining socially desirable objectives like increasing
employment opportunities, climb up in labour income, decreases crime and offer a
high protection to the environmental and natural resources (Visitqatar.qa, 2018).
 On the other hand, private and public partnerships would help Qatar in keeping
balance between life of travellers and local community of Qatar. Effectiveness of
culture, natural resources and others involved in the local community would be
developed with this kind of partnerships.
 This kind of partnerships would be useful in different sustainable policies and
projects. Investments would be better. Development in the current financial resources
and arrival of new financial resources for the sustainable tourism could be achieved
through private and public partnership planning in Qatar (Visitqatar.qa, 2018).
Disadvantages
 This kind of partnership planning could increase chances of sensitivity of investors as
well as shareholders to political risks and challenges.
 Managing and maintaining cooperation between various public and private enterprises
could be a bit challenging for the travel and tourism sector in Qatar (Visitqatar.qa,
2018).
 Increasing risk related to the monetary outcomes of hospitality industry of this
country could enhance due to the private and public planning partnerships.
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 Another challenging factor is that government in this country could loss control over
on different activities involved in the partnership as well as possibility of unethical
occurrences could increase.
 Lack of good quality standards, reduction of the value of public travel and tourism
industry, difference in decision-making procedures between business partners could
enhance ineffective business relations (Visitqatar.qa, 2018).
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Task 2(LO2, AC2.1, 2.2, 2.3, M1, M2, M3, D1, D2, D3)
P 2.1 Analyse features of tourism development planning at different levels with
reference to the Qatar.
Tourism developmental planning could be defined according to Broman, G.I. and Robèrt
(2017) as a phrase of preparation associated to organizing the future to achieve specific
sustainable objectives of particular areas. Additionally, for Qatar Travel and Tourism
planning would help in satisfying different sustainable tourism goals. Core goals of this
tourism planning are increasing the travellers’ satisfaction, financial, environmental, social
development of Qatar, sustainable application of resources, incorporation of community in
different jobs of this country and others. Features of development in various levels are listed
below,
Environmental: Sustainable Travel and tourism planning in Qatar would influence on the
environmental resources. Undetected tourism may cause serious problems in the
environmental resources as well as environmental balance in this country could face
challenge due to the undetected tourism (Wood, 2017). Travel and tourism planning in Qatar
should be formatted and implemented effectively as climactic change is already noticed in
this country.
Global level: Travel and tourism planning of Qatar as mentioned at the global level reflects
on the transportation services of the country. Additionally, this also focuses on the current
tour programmes as well as numbers of travellers visiting form overseas (González et al.,
2017). On the other hand, contemporary development is also another important component in
this planning.
Regional level: Core focus of the planning in this area involves regional policies, transport
network of this country, different types of location and their development, development of
regional educational level and others (Kiggundu and DeGhetto, 2015).
Sub-regional level: In this part, the travel planning of Qatar is focused on connecting
national and regional developmental policies. Another focus is to protect natural resources of
diverse tourist locations. This level of planning is more compact compared to the regional
level.
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National level: Physical structure along with tourism policy of the country is the main
focused area in this part. Planning should be done to develop connectivity and
communication between main routes of Qatar (Kiggundu and DeGhetto, 2015). Elevation
tourism organizational structure, investments and regulations for Qatar is also included in the
national level planning.
P 2.2 Evaluate the significance of interactive planning systems and processes in tourism
development with reference to Qatar.
Interactive planning of Qatar associates government, World Tourism Organization
(UNWTO) and QTA as well as different hospitality industry of this country. The interactive
planning of this country reflects planning related to sustainable long-term growth and
financial diversification within 2030. QTA (‘Qatar Tourism Authority’) has announced about a
plan involving QNTSS (‘Qatar National Tourism Sector Strategy”) 2030, which is a catalyst for
sustainable hospitality development through 2030 (Scharfenort, 2017). This planning unfolds
processing related to promoting engagement in both the design of a desirable development of
overall infrastructure of this sector in future. This process will help their current stakeholders’
communication in a more effective way.
The interactive tourism planning highlighted in the above section of this report underlines the
fact that current tourism related planning are incapable of capturing many short and long-
term objectives for developing sustainability and profitability in future (Mason, 2015). This
planning would be helpful in fulfilling sustainable application or use of recent environmental
and natural resources of this country. Moreover, travel and tourism safety is also underlines
through this planning. Safety is unfolded in terms of financial development and better
communication with the stakeholders. With the help of the interactive planning discussed
above Qatar could maintain an effective planning between the stakeholders as well as
government, which would in turn is helpful in achieving some deficiency of meeting the
environmental benchmark of the country. Additionally, this interactive planning will also be
productive in ensuring proper sustainable plan for the future that would help in gaining more
attention of tourists coming to their land from different parts of the globe.
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P 2.3 Evaluate different methods available to measure tourist impact with reference to
Qatar
Evaluating various methods accessible to measure travel and tourism influence with reference
to Qatar is discussed below,
Environmental impact studies
Burt et al. (2017) have studied that current and future plans related to tourism in Qatar has
different layers of impact on the country’s environment. These studies show exquisite impact
of travellers on environment of the country. Planning discussed above helps in determining
information regarding available natural resources for sustainable travel and tourism growth
for Qatar. Although environmental impact is a vast area and despite this fact the government
of Qatar must implement policies that would ensure reduction of effects on the climate,
culture, lifestyle due to tourism development.
Preservation, conservation, new builds
According to the current sustainable tourism plan of Qatar, it could be said that this plan has
three key components namely preservation, conservation and new buildings. This plan is
effective in preserving indigenous culture, environment by protecting people, their lifestyle,
culture, habits and practices that are points of attractiveness to travellers. Conservation of the
growth of travel and tourism infrastructure could be achieved with this plan and on the other
hand, new sustainable long-term growth and financial diversification within 2030 to be
attained by the hospitality industry of Qatar through this plan.
Cambridge Economic Impact Model
This model is an industry respect technique that is helpful in calculating the tourist influences
on Qatar. Key focus of this model according to Pratt (2015) is concerned with the financial
impacts of hospitality business in increasing GDP as well as annual income of the country.
This spreadsheet model is helpful in producing estimation from existing local and national
documents of level of tourism in this country. In a nutshell, this model is helpful in measuring
the power of total tourism spend in Qatar along with income generations to develop country’s
profitability. Moreover, this plan is effective in developing stability of travel and tourism in
Qatar within 2030.
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Social impact studies
Like the environmental effects, this model is helpful in developing awareness of people as
well as travellers regarding preservation of culture, habits, lifestyle of inhabitants of this
country along with education them how to reduce harmful effects on the society by various
environment friendly processes (Pratt, S., 2015).
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