Analysis of Sustainable Tourism Development in Egypt

This report provides an in-depth analysis of sustainable tourism development, focusing on the context of Egypt. It examines tourism development planning at international, national, regional, and sub-regional levels, highlighting the significance of interactive planning processes and systems in enhancing tourism outcomes. The report evaluates various methods for measuring tourist impact, including the Cambridge economic impact model and the STEAM model, providing insights into their application in the Egyptian tourism sector. The discussion emphasizes the importance of sustainable practices in achieving high employment levels, improved infrastructure, and increased national income while minimizing adverse impacts on the environment and local communities. The conclusion reinforces the benefits of balancing the needs of tourists with those of the destination to ensure long-term sustainability.

Introduction
Sustainable Tourism can be defined as a sector which is committed to
making less influence on local and environmental culture, when assisting to
generate employment for local population in future. This leaflet covers features
of tourism development planning, importance of interactive planning processes
and systems and different methods available to measure impact of tourist.
2.1 Analyse features of tourism development planning at different levels with
reference to Egypt
The planning of tourism development has been done at different levels. An
effective feature is associated with each level that helps other levels in structure
of planning (Kwan, 2012). In reference to Egypt, the features of tourism
development planning at distinct levels are mentioned below:
International level: It involves business that engaged tourists or visitors from
outside the nation. Development of growth plans of international tourism is very
important as it administers an opportunity to grow the economy of nation by
cultural heritage development and foreign exchange at international level. This
planning mainly emphasizes on investing into multinational strategies of
marketing and enhancing transportation facilities.
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National level: The business from domestic or national tourists are included in
this. At this level, visitors visit the destinations in similar nation where they live.
The prime concern of development at this level is major routes of Egypt along
with accommodation facilities for domestic visitors. In order to formulate
strategies at national or domestic level, short term planning of development is
done.
Regional level: It is a concerned with the tourism in particular area or region in
nation. Regional level mainly emphasizes on development of attractions locations.
Appropriate accommodation as well as transportation facilities is also taken into
consideration in order to enhance regional tourism (Munday, Turner and Jones,
2013).
Sub-regional level: The strategies and policies at sub regional level are
formulated only when required. The major emphasis is on improving the
transportation facilities for local citizens and enhancing conditions of attractions so
that local people visit the destinations frequently.
2.2 Evaluate the significance of interactive planning systems and processes in
tourism development with reference to Egypt
Different approaches are there that can be utilize to accomplish the aim of
tourism development. In the success of development of tourism, interactive
planning processes and systems plays crucial role. It ensures that all levels of
communities, tourists and organisations get engage to plan so as to eliminate over
budget spending, reducing the adverse influence on local communities and
increasing the potential of destination (Nunkoo and Smith, 2014). Interactive
collaborative approach includes collaboration of local government or authorities
with the with public regulatory authorities of tourism in order to prepare the
improvement plan. These systems and processes are effective due to their
participation process which results in effective decision making. In reference to
Egypt, the interactive planning processes and systems helps tourism organisations
in minimising the negative influence on local communities. It also assists in
maximizing potential of particular place as interactive planning supports tourism
organisations in better decision making a regarding tourism development within

STEAM model: This is the another method which is used by tourism
organisations to measure tourist impact. It emphasizes on day visitors and number
of tourists staying. It offers the information regarding influence by assessing the
trends on day visitors who are staying. In order to generate the effective results,
this model utilize four inputs. These includes:
Information regarding utilization of accommodation services through percentages.
It is computed from the accommodation service type in Egypt.
Attendance on events and attractions visit in country.
Accommodation capacity provided for visitors to stay.
Information provided through tourist information centre of Egypt.
With the above mentioned a four inputs, organisations enable to
effectively analyse the influence of tourists on economic changes.
Conclusion
As per the above discussion, it has been concluded that it is observed that
the practice of sustainable tourism helps a destination to enjoy high employment
level, better infrastructure and high national income. Development in sustainable
tourism retains social and economic advantages while minimizing undesirable
influences on historic, cultural, natural and social surroundings by balancing the
requirements of tourists or visitors to those of destination.
The transforming volume and values of tourism are plumbed by nation's local
authorities in order to gather accurate information and forward that to national
level. The combined information of volume and values ascertains the
effectiveness in process of development. Because of interactive systems and
processes, the analysis of positive and adverse influences becomes easy as the
collected information is available to all resources in process of tourism
development. It helps in analysing the impact of visitors on local community so
as to improve the services. The implications of practices and policies as per the
government are easy to measure at different businesses. The organisations in
Egypt are govern under local authorities or government of nation in order to run
their operations and functions appropriately. With the assistance of interactive
processes and systems, more blase development of marketing and planning is
possible. Effective monitoring and guidance of development work is possible
with interactive planning (Reihanian and et. al., 2012).
2.3 Evaluate different methods available to measure tourist impact with reference
to Egypt
Measuring the impact of tourist is necessary in order to determine the
improvement level in tourism industry. This impact measurement results in
provision of transformation in tourism values at local level, therefore, assists in
formulating strategies as per the changes in trends and data occurs. There are
some methods which are available to measure the impact of tourist in context of
Egypt. Some of the methods are mentioned below:
Cambridge economic impact model: This model aims at computing the
tourism value in local economies. In order to compute the values, local data is
used by this model. Two stages are considered in this model including
calculating the volume and value of visitors who are staying in that region or
area and examine the influence of spending of visitors on local economy. In
context of Egypt, use of this model supports tourism organisations in calculating
the visitor's value and volume and examining influence of their spending on
economy. The main reason behind choosing this model to use is its affordability
(Ruhanen, 2013).
CONCLUSION
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