Sustainable Tourism Development in Qatar: Challenges and Planning

This report examines sustainable tourism development with a focus on Qatar. It begins by defining sustainability in the context of tourism, highlighting its role in preserving heritage, culture, and generating employment. The report identifies factors that both hinder and boost sustainable tourism in Qatar, such as economic growth, trade benefits, high costs, and access to amenities. It outlines the different stages involved in planning for sustainability, emphasizing the importance of understanding sustainability, identifying priorities, creating a vision, and setting goals. The report concludes that achieving sustainability in Qatar's tourism sector requires collaboration among stakeholders and public-private partnerships.

Sustainable Tourism
Development

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Concept of sustainability in tourism development
 Factors preventing sustainable tourism development
 Different stages in planning for sustainability
 Conclusion
 References

Introduction
Travel and tourism industry has become one of the largest growing
developing industry in economy. It is committed to acquire
sustainable development in its business by making a very low impact
on environment. The main motive behind sustainability is
safeguarding nations heritage and culture which also helps to
generate employment for local people and improving standards of life
quality.

Concept of sustainability in
tourism development
Sustainability development is positive socioeconomic change that dose
not undermine ecological ans social system in which communities and
society are dependent. It required successful implementation of
integrated policies, planning and learning process and political
viability. Moreover it fully depend on people and government support,
social institution and their private activities.

Factors preventing sustainable
tourism development
Factors that hinder or boost tourism industry, as there are different
destination and many different type of travellers and as well as
different individual experiences.
Positive factor preventing sustainable tourism development in Qatar
 Economic growth: Tourism in Qatar has observed from many
different angles. It contributes in increasing foreign earnings
through mechanism of tourist.

Cont...
Tourism and trade: From the trade perspective of Qatar, tourism is
developing and makes a great contribution in foreign earnings than
other sector is consider as major export oriented without facing much
trade barriers. Moreover, tourism sector of Qatar doesn't have much
restriction as other export oriented activities have by imposing high
entry fee for imported products.

Cont...
Negative factor hindering sustainable tourism development in Qatar
 Cost: Cost is primary factor affecting tourism industry. In Qatar
domestic travelers are increasing limited prices. As price increases,
flights prices also goes up as well as negatively impacting long
distance and international travelers.
 Access to amenities: Every traveling destination arise with an
expectation of different types of amenities. Lack of amenities in
Qatar, transportation has become a major concern for both budgeted
and luxury traveler.

Different stages in planning for
sustainability
Sustainability planning begins with ensuring that everyone on planning
team has to shared understating of sustainability. The stages of
sustainability planning in reference to Qatar are as follows:
 Understating sustainability: Understating sustainability is basically
sustainable development of Qatar, that meets present requirement
without compromising ability of future generation to meet their own
needs.

Cont...
 Identify priorities: Strategic sustainability starts with challenges
that have greatest impact on an organization In context to Qatar
tourism industry need to identify what are risk opportunities that
exist at various scales from local to regional, state, national and
international level.
 Create a vision for Sustainability: Strategic planning is done to
identify a vision for a particular unit. The key focus of Qatar is to
bring unique capabilities in travel and tourism industry.

Cont...
 Set goals and develop matrix: Goals are leverage strengths that help
in achieving opportunities and make real impact on industry. In
Qatar, strategic sustainability prioritizes and organise such as ideas
in order to meet right combination of short and long term goals to
meet tourism sustainability development.

Conclusion
From the above report it has been concluded that tourism, sector is
drastically changing for attaining objectives associated with
sustainability in tourism sector and preserving nations heritage and
culture. Implication of plan of tourism development depends on
different types of stakeholders. Public and private partnership is
beneficial approach opted by Qatar tourism.

References
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development in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam: An examination of
residents’ perceptions.
 Larson, L.R. and Poudyal, N.C., 2012. Developing sustainable
tourism through adaptive resource management: A case study of
Machu Picchu, Peru. Journal of sustainable tourism. 20(7). pp.917-
938.

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