Island Destinations Flashcards
1
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Small Island Development States -SIDS
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- Single destinations
- Limited resources
- Unique ecosystems
- Usually tourism is a major national economic sector
- Fragile nature
- Limit economic growth
2
Q
Major Issues for SIDS
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- Investments (Needs and funds)
- Strategies (Local skills development)
- Infrastructure (Communities and Tourism)
- Sustainability
- Impacts
- Planning (Including Marketing)
- Holistic issues
3
Q
Marketing power
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- Differentness and uniqueness experiences
- Appear in TV programmes, documentaries, movies and books
- Image: Fantasy tropical
- Exotic paradise
4
Q
Communities wishes to develop Tourism
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- Political, economical and basic structure
- Resource availability
- Accessibility and transport development
- Sustainability
- Natural and cultural heritage
- Marketing
5
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Development factors
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- Political dimensions
- Economic factors
- Community attitudes
- Infrastructure
- Accessibility
- Sustainability
- Marketing
6
Q
Planning
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- Land use / Urban and rural environments
- Local economy opportunities
- Sustainable plan
- Manage financial resources
- Community heritage and tourism
- Control impacts
- Long-term flexible projects (climate change)
7
Q
Future Issues and Challenges
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- Management of adaptation
- Alternative resources
- Policies to control the impacts
- Ice melting Island destinations could disappear
8
Q
Five Sustainable Tourism issues for Archipelagos:
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- Governance – Development policies
- Centralized Tourism Planning
- Islands life cycles and images versus Archipelago
- Transportation between Islands from Archipelago
- Standardization of Tourism
9
Q
Tourism Products
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- Natural landscape as attraction (Sun, Sea and Sand)
- Honey-moon destinations
- Cruise tourism
- Sport tourism
- Cultural tourism
- Accommodation evolution and adaptation
10
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Residents’ Attitudes
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- Barriers against integration between Tourists and residents
- Residents have to share their basic structure with tourists
- Tourism has to show benefits to the communities to resident’s give the real value to tourism development.
11
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Sustainable Tourism Policy Development
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- Difficulty of monitoring and measuring environmental impacts
- Mass tourism evolution to Sustainable Tourism
- Carrying capacity limits
- Land usage and zoning
- Coastal development policies
12
Q
Tourism and Immigration Trends
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• Conflicts of demand purposes
13
Q
Tourism Planning
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- Strategic plan
- Carrying capacity issue
- Sustainability
- Impacts
- Marketing
- Satisfaction
14
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Competitive Profile
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- Seasonality
- Flexible Strategies based on innovation of products and perceived value
- Private and public sector doing cooperate actions
- Providing Education and knowledge, they were trained to rediscover ways to maintain the tourists demand
15
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Strengths
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- Strong brand awareness
- Attractive climate
- High visitor satisfaction
- Safe tourism and stable community
- Quality and variety of tourism supply
