Tourism Topic 3 Flashcards
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What is sustainable tourism developement?
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- Applied to the 3 conditions:
- Economic
- Social
- Environmental - 3 dimensions must be balanced to guarantee tourism’s long-term sustainability
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How can tourism development ensure economic sustainability?
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- Continual provision of employment opportunities and income growth
[Ensure that locals have sustain employment and source of income] - Increased provision of social services that raise standards of living amongst locals
[Tourism revenue to be used as a useful source of money to build infrastructure for the locals which increases the standard of living of the locals
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How can tourism development ensure social sustainability?
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- Respect authenticity of local communities, practices, and art forms
[When they are respected, they continue to be meaningful and significant for locals] - Contribute to intercultural understanding and tolerance.
[Exchange of culture enhances the understanding, tolerance and appreciation towards each other.]
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How can tourism development ensure environmental sustainability?
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1.Maintain essential ecological processes
[Ecological processes refer to the biological, physical, chemical processes that sustain ecological systems. It is important as it ensures that the environment thrive, meet the present and future demands of people]
- Conserve natural heritage and biodiversity
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How do stakeholders influence sustainable tourism?
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- All the stakeholders must work together
- Need to have what common understanding of what sustainable tourism development is
- All stakeholders should have a say
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Stakeholders: Government (positive)
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- Establish policies and create plans:
- Make rules that people MUST follow
- Can help ensure minimal damage to the environment while maximising the benefits for the locals - Enforcing Regulations:
- Enforcing regulations on the types of tourism and the number of tourists who can enter
- This is critical to ensure policies and plans are adhere to
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Stakeholders: Government (negative)
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- Poor Enforcement:
- For regulations to be effective, active enforcement is required.
- Governments who lack resources, political influence will face corruption - The decision to prioritise economic development:
- Some putting economy benefits as first, neglecting the other two factors
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Stakeholders: International Organisations (positive)
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- Consultancy and technical assistance:
- Marketing plan developed with villages
- Locals receiving handicraft skills training for them to create handicraft to be sold - Financial Assistance:
- Financial aid is given to carry out small-scale infrastructural improvements
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Stakeholders: international Organisation (Negative)
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- Lack of understanding of local contexts:
- Comprise of different background people therefore the difference in view perspectives
- Do not understand about the local context of place
- Locals may not agree or support - Lack of funding:
- Non-profit, it may be challenging to choose projects to provide financial assistance for
- Without $$, some plans may not be able to carry out
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Stakeholders: Businesses (positive)
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- Business have an incentive to pursue sustainable tourism as it can keep them profitable
- They often have financial resources to influence sustainable tourism development
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Stakeholders: Businesses (Negative)
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- Compromising on sustainable practices to survive:
- Businesses may prioritize profit above anything - Differing understanding and ways of measuring sustainability:
- Business may end greenwashing, marketing themselves as ‘sustainable’ when their practices are not
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Stakeholders: Locals (positive)
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- Seeking advice from other stakeholders regarding sustainable tourism practices:
- Locals may not have necessary knowledge and experience; by seeking advice they can adopt sustainable practices - Participating in decision-making:
- Having local knowledge, they can suggest ways to minimise the harmful impact
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Stakeholders: Locals (negative)
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- Lack of financial or technical resources:
- Some locals do not how to apply for the assistance hence they lack the resources - Prioritising economic benefits over sustainability:
- Some locals pursue $$ over sustainability
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Stakeholders: Tourists (positive):
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- Developing a genuine interest in the tourist destination and seeking to enhance its environment, culture, and economy:
- Tourist can choose tours that prioritizes sustainable tourism - Interacting responsibly with the environment and people when they travel:
- Tourist can read up on the local practices and cultures and be mindful of their attire
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Stakeholders: Tourist (negative)
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- Some sustainable tourism options may be out of their budget
- Lack of clear information which may confuse tourists on the sustainable options available.
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Some Challenges stakeholders face
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- Stakeholders may have different understandings and measurements of sustainable tourism
- Stakeholders have differing amounts of control over resources
- Stakeholders have different priorities which can make negotiation challenging
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AIM of eco-tourism and its strategy
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- Aims to conserve natural environment while benefitting the local community
- Strategy 1: Educate and increase tourists’ appreciation of nature [Take place within nature areas, increase tourist knowledge and encourages to take action to converse]
- Strategy 2: Put in place measure to minimise the negative impacts on the environment [Park rangers set up laws to protect the environment]
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Eco-tourism experiences
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- Hard eco-tourism:
- Stronger commitment to environmental conservation
- smaller number of tourists
- Few to no services provided
- Supplied by specialist tour operators - Soft eco-tourism:
- Moderate commitment to environment conservation
- Services are often provided
- Supplied by mass-market tour operators
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Limitation of eco-tourism:
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- Uncertainty over the continuity of efforts in conserving nature:
- Eco-tourism does not work when it is too popular
- Presence of too many tourists may destroy nature
- May have strong desire to earn, then compromises eco-tourism - Uncertainty over involving locals:
- Demand of manpower may cause them to hire nonlocals
- Especially when locals are not well-skilled
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AIM and strategy of community based tourism
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- To maximise local communities’ involvement in tourism and the benefits to them
- Strategy 1: Encourage the local community to participate in decision-making on tourism development in their community:
- Locals have greater knowledge of their needs, therefore their decisions can help to ensure that their needs are met - Strategy 2: Put in place measures to increase economic and social benefits to locals
- Locals are encouraged to set up businesses and offer tourism experiences (minimises leakage)
- Revenue generate from tourism can be directed to community project and improve social well-being.
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Limitations of Community-based tourism:
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- Loss of culture:
- locals offer their culture as tourism experience, they may commodify it to suit the liking of tourists - Competition with large-scale tourism developments:
- they lack some of the necessary skill and finance
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AIM and Strategy of Pro-poor tourism:
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- Aims at generating net benefits and improving livelihoods and well-being of the poor
- Strategy 1: Training, locals will be able to learn new skills which they can use to gain employment
- Strategy 2: Increasing access to micro-finance, enables the poor to set up businesses
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What are limitations of pro-poor tourism?
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- Inability to significantly reduce poverty as compared to direct investment in social services, the poor may be reluctant to participate in pro-poor tourism
- The economic benefits may be highly unevenly distributed, with most of the benefits being channelled to non-poor locals, they have greater access to micro-financing or financial grants as they are more reliable.
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Develop Sustainably: Sustainable tourism production
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- Demands on ecosystem services do not exceed the supply of resources, this is to ensure sustainable tourism to happen.
- Different stakeholders work together and adopt responsible long-term approaches
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Develop sustainably: Tourism consumption
1. Destination regions mange demand and when tourism is consumed responsibly by tourists.
- Making responsible choices
- Regions should manage the demand
2. Policies give local communities primary attention while considering the needs of tourists.
-Locals need to be involved in the implementing of tourism policies so that their needs are met
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Sustainably development: Equitable distribution of tourism benefits
1. Implementing effective tourism management to ensure the tourism benefits are enjoyed by all stakeholders, only when all enjoy benefits then none will get angry
2. Minimising negative trade-offs within or between economic, social and environmental dimensions, because of conflicting priorities and differing understanding.
