Impact of Urban Parks on Tourism, Hospitality, and Events Industries

This report analyzes the multifaceted impacts of urban parks, focusing on their influence on tourism, hospitality, and event industries, while also considering environmental and social perspectives. The introduction defines urban parks and highlights their benefits, such as enhancing physical and psychological health, boosting the economy through events, and providing ecosystem services. The analysis delves into three key perspectives: the impact on tourism, hospitality, and event industries, exploring opportunities for events, logistical challenges, and the development of permanent hospitality facilities. The environmental perspective examines pollution mitigation and sustainability aspects, while the social perspective covers community development and gentrification. The conclusion summarizes the positive impacts of urban parks, and the recommendations suggest strategies for maximizing benefits and minimizing challenges, such as precise event planning, waste disposal management, and community engagement. This report aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role and impact of urban parks in contemporary society.

Urban Parks
Table of Contents

Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Analysis............................................................................................................................................2
Short introduction...................................................................................................................2
Identify 3 different perspectives.............................................................................................2
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
Recommendations............................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
Urban Park is also referred to as public or municipal garden that present across the cities
as well as incorporated places in order to furnish green spaces to visitors, guests and municipality
(Amani-Beni Zhang and Xu, 2018). They are maintained, operated and designed via government
agencies generally at local levels. Urban Parks are liable for furnishing space for enjoying nature
as well as get fit by cycling, running or walking at no cost. The common benefits that can be
attained from municipal parks or urban parks are that they comprises of gardens, hiking, fitness
paths or trails, playgrounds, courts and sports fields, picnic facilities and many more assets
depending upon the budget as well as natural features that are available. As per the claim of park
advocates by having parks closer to urban residents with area of 10 minutes’ walk will render
multiple benefits. In addition to this, other benefits are specified beneath:
 Urban Parks enhances physical along with psychological health by strengthening the
communities. This also make city along with neighbourhoods attractive place to work
and live.
 They can be utilised for holding athletic events, festivals and concerts for bringing in
additional boost to the economy. Like Chain of Lakes (Minnesota) receives ample of
visitors each year and have become second largest attraction across the country.
 Substantial ecosystem services are furnished as single tree generate significant amount of
oxygen that have critical role within minimisation of pollution.
But along with assets there are certain challenges that are associated with building up
urban parks, they are as:
 Urban parks have insufficient funding due to this they are poorly maintained. In addition
to this, the number of man power also lacks which also leads to different issues like area
is not clean (Brtnický and et. al, 2019).
 The other critical challenge is parental attitude towards cultural relationship and safety
concerns.
This report aims at providing different perspectives associated with impact that will be
created via Urban Parks on tourism, hospitality & events industries, social and environmental
perspectives.
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Analysis
Short introduction
Urban Parks are delineated as open source areas that are mostly dominated via water
vegetation and reserved for public utilisation. They are generally larger but might also have
smaller shape and the term used for defining them is pocket urban. There are different benefits
that can be attained from Urban Parks like promotes health (spiritually, intellectually, physically
and emotionally), builds up social capital and also leads to creation of sense of place. In addition
to this, strong affirmative impact is also created on the environment as plants are planted which
gives their significant efforts within minimisation of pollution (Cohen, Potchter and Schnell,
2014). Furthermore, the economic perspectives are also associated with this like events can be
organised. This report aims at furnishing impact that is created by the Urban Parks on the
different aspects of the country so that proper understanding can be developed related with them.
Identify 3 different perspectives
Urban Parks leads to creation of significant influence on different perspectives or entities
present within the country, they are specified below:
Impact on Tourism, Hospitality and Event Industries: Urban Parks often acts like
engine that are accountable for driving in people within different communities. The aspect that ia
accountable for attracting visitors is uniqueness within the places that makes them different. This
enables or force people to leave their homes as well as travel to the places that will have positive
impact on them. Urban Parks leads to generation of significant amount of capital for the country
as well as different sectors of the society (Yan, Wu and Dong, 2018). For understanding this
aspect an example can be taken like Chain of Lakes serve as a tourist attraction point as it is
surrounded with lakes across which people can do jogging, biking, skiing or rollerblading and
even a walking system for 12 mile. Along with this there are varieties of amenities. In addition to
this, there are various parks that attract visitors like Lumpini Park (Bangkok), Hibiya Park
(Tokyo), Keukenhof Lisse (Netherland) and there are many more Urban Parks across the world
that captivates ample of people towards them. This means that different industries gets
opportunity for having a growth. Opportunities for carrying out events: The parks provide tourism, event and hospitality
industries to conduct different activities. This can be understood by taking an instance
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like parks provides eye catching view with greenery all around, this will act as an asset
for event industries as parks have ample of space it will be easy for latter to carry out
some kind of events and have economic benefits. On the other hand, there will be
significant increase within the tourists that will aid tourism sector to have relevant sales
of offerings that are being rendered (Kim and et. al, 2019). In addition to this, when
events will be carried out individuals also looks forward to have hospitality services like
restaurants, hotels, etc. where they can have comfort at the end of the day. This means
that overall there will be affirmative influence on the ways in which these industries
deliver their accountabilities. Logistical challenges: There are lots of benefits that can be attained by different
industries my making use of Urban Parks but along with these certain challenges are also
there that must be acknowledged so that rationale behind carrying out the event can be
accomplished. The major limitation is the restricted space for parking and if this is not
maintained then traffic jams will be created which implies that people will not be able to
attend the event. This means that adequate planning and measures must be considered
through which the negatives can be eliminated. Developing permanent hospitality facilities: Urban parks provides a site for carrying out
special events along with festivals that will attract ample of people. Further, they also
render sites for having sports tournaments that cats like critical source for tourism along
with this render significant benefits (Li and et. al, 2019). The hospitality sector can opt
for providing people with permanent services. Like when people come to walk then there
has to be café’s so that in case if they need anything then they can have easy access to
them. This will have strong impact on the economy of the country. In addition to this,
when visitors will visit the place then the influence will be amplified as there will be
significant incline within the overall sales that have been carried out.
Impact from environmental perspectives: Pollution: Urban Parks provides landscape for planting as well as designing that is
recognized like living works of art. In context of pollution, the impact will be negated or
declined like Golden Gate Park that is situated in San Francisco is spread at the space of
1013 acres that is three miles long as well as one-half mile wider. This is created in a
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hilly park that comprises of landscape of ridges, meadows, winding roads and lakes.
More than one million of tress are planted along with lily pools. This means that air
quality will be improvised as latter is accountable for filtering harmful dust along with
pollutants like carbon monoxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone from the air that humans
breathe. Sustainability: In addition to this, Urban Parks will enhance the quality of air in both
direct as well as indirect manner. Indirectly, they will aid by minimising temperature and
shading surfaces (Liu and et. al, 2017). When buildings will be shaded via trees then it
will decline requirement of conventional air conditioning along with greenhouse gases
that comes with them. Further, decrease within the temperature will also decline risk that
is created by harmful pollutants. Urban Parks that have ample of trees will act like lungs
of the ecosystem as they are liable for absorbing carbon dioxide and emits oxygen. This
implies that the aspects of sustainability will be addressed in an adequate manner by
building up Urban Parks and there will be significant affirmative impact on the
biodiversity.
Impact from the social perspectives Community development: This implies that community is engaged within the processes
that are intended for improvisation of economic, environmental and social situation of the
community (Nam and Kim, 2019). Any peculiar amenities are not directly applied to
inspire community development instead of this recreation is carried out. Civic pride,
appreciating one other, volunteering, socializing, friendship and preserving history are
some instances of the manner in which community development can be attained. By
being an active participant within recreation activities of open spaces and urban parks
leads to creation of leadership opportunities through which strong communities, social
cohesion and social capital will be developed. When individuals will attain sense of the
belongingness then the environment where urban parks are developed will be attained
and will also develop affirmative sense of the place. Gentrification: The Urban Parks provides people with an opportunity to spend time with
nature and environment that will enable them to minimise the stress that prevails within
day to day life activities. The elder generation who are open to people can have enhanced
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social life where they can interact with other and lead healthy life. In addition to this, the
people who have some sort of illness will recover quickly. Furthermore, the students can
also acquire ample of information from Urban Parks as well as have space for carrying
out their outdoor activities rather than playing with digital tools (Park and Kim, 2019).
This implies that each generation can have affirmative impact from the Urban Park.
Conclusion
From above it can be concluded that urban parks refer to rendering green space along
with recreation to residents and visitors. The government is accountable for their designing,
operating along with maintaining them. Different industries can have assets from them like when
visitors will visit then tourism industry will furnish services to them, hospitality will serve them
in form of restaurants, hotels, etc. and event industry can carry out events easily without the issue
of space. This means that significant amount of opportunities are provided to different industries
which will have significant influence on the economic conditions of the country. This implies
that there will be affirmative impact of the urban parks on the country. This will purify the air
and will minimise the impact that is created via pollution.
Recommendations
The above sections have provided an insight into different aspects associated with urban
parks. With reference to that, certain recommendations are provided beneath:
 It is recommended that while carrying out different events on the Urban Parks precise
planning has to be carried out. The reason behind this is to eliminate issues related with
parking and traffic jam. This can be reduced by allocating precise space for the parking,
in addition to this additional space must also be prepared for ensuring this aspect so that
in case if number increases then any kind of problems are not faced.
 When events are carried out in the Urban Parks then there is probability that people might
throw the disposal or any kind of eatables anywhere, this will lead to create pollution. For
an instance if these disposals are burnt then having a Urban Parks within the city will not
solve the purpose of minimisation of environmental issues will not be resolved.
Therefore, it is suggested that proper space must be provided for disposing the waste. But
still people do not opt for throwing them into bins but as per their convenience anywhere
they throws it. In addition to this, for ensuring this aspect fine must be imposed by locals
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and if anyone sees someone doing so pictures must be clicked and relevant authority must
be informed so that they can take appropriate actions accordingly. This will aid within
minimisation of problems that are created via ill-mannered waste disposal.
 This is suggested that within the Urban Parks more trees must be planted so that healthy
environment can be created. Further, such kind of more parks must be developed so that
people can have social interaction and a sense of responsibilities will also develop among
them. Further there will be significant impact for the local people of the country.
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