Disadvantages Of Pro-Poor Tourism

Tourism has become a commercial business, which has obvious benefits to the said economy, the environment and society. Often, the positive economic impacts persuade governments, companies and individuals to get involved with the development of tourism. Tourism creates jobs, both

Tourism plays a significant role in sustainable development and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) wish to encourage all countries to make sure that their policies and actions for its development and management fully embrace the principles of sustainability. Likewise, policies to promote sustainable development should take full account of the opportunities offered by tourism. Various international conventions and declarations have put forward principles and guidelines for sustainable tourism and the importance of tourism and its sustainability was underlined at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. Many countries declare that they are pursuing, or wish to pursue, policies for ‘sustainable tourism’. Despite this interest, there remains a degree of uncertainty over the scope and priorities for making tourism more sustainable and only partial appreciation of how to put this into practice (Making Tourism More Sustainable, 2005).

Four different stakeholder groups have been identified for this study in sustainable tourism: the present tourists, the present host community, the future tourists, and the future host community. All of these groups have a legitimate interest in tourism development in their community because they can affect or be affected by the tourism business as a whole. Other major stakeholders are central and local government, the private sector, international organizations, public/private initiatives and traditional chiefs/community

According to Jamieson (2004:13) various strategies can be used to alleviate poverty through tourism such as

Tourism plays a vital role in economic development in most countries around the world. The industry has not only direct economic impact, but also significant indirect and influential impacts. There is agreement among experts that the travel and tourism sector is the fastest growing of global economy. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism receipts surpass US$ 1 trillion in 2011, growing about 3.8%up from 2010 (WTO, 2012).

In this document, we are going to show the generalities of the country as well as the information related to the touristic development of the country and within the regions. As for the tourism development, there are many aspects that have influenced the recent development of the infrastructure and the international image; the role of the government has been essential for this change with all the laws and regulations that have been created in order to show where we are and where we are going.

The current research paper covers the main effects of global tourism, both positive and negative. International tourism is a significant sector of business. For some countries it is one of the main sources of national income. The most important positive economic effects of tourism are as follows: increase in budget revenues, production expansion, stimulation of investments, and improvement in the population’s welfare. Tourism influences social and cultural lives of people in a positive way by stimulating the development and revival of local cultures and encouraging intercultural exchange.

Tourism is one of the most exciting and progressive industries in the world. Tourism today is a leisure activity of the masses. People travel to international destinations to break the regular monotony of life. They are mainly attracted by either the scenic beauty of its nature or by fascinating leisure, sports and adventure activities offered by the destination. However, every destination has some internal strengths and weaknesses that either enhance its capacity to attract foreign visitors or diminish it. Similarly the external environment can create various opportunities or exposed to threats as well.

In economic aspect, tourism can boost the economy of the developing countries by receiving tourist spending, the money received can further drive the income of different industries and sectors inside the economy, which can be explained by the Tourism Multiplier Effect (Leuterio, 2007). In fact, not only can tourism create employment in the tertiary sector, but also stimulate growth of the primary and secondary industries. To be precise, tourism in an area encourage the employment related to business supply services and building of hotels. Then, the employees of the tourism industry spend their income on other services in the local area, with increase in tax revenue at the same time. Therefore, improving the earnings of other

Tourists can also book accommodation with the “Outback Pioneer Hotel and Lodge - Ayers Rock Resort”. This is a 3 star hotel, offering rooms from just $300 per night. This hotel offers swimming pools, Resort Town Square shops, petrol station, tennis courts, and a visitor centre.

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry

Economic sustainability- Tourism must bring economic incentives to a host country`s economy, drive it to economic development and economic prosperity. Tourism must create workplaces for all, including vulnerable strata of a society such as women and young people and/or young specialists.

Tourism is a really complex sector in which is often driven by foreign and private interests. ( Roe. Dylis) it is also a volatile and is susceptible to changing events which can become difficult to control. A cause of that, there might exist a limited potential in helping the poor. Proo Poor tourism is supposed to be keen at maximise returns for poor people, however Tourism still allows wealthier people benefit from it . “The middle class poor are more likely to receive benefits than the ‘poorest’, who lack the capital and skills to exploit economic opportunities, but are likely to suffer from the negative impacts on local resources” (Hall, 2007)therefore, not all poor people can benefit from it, there always be some that will lose. ( reid , 2003 in.. colin h) argues that tourism need to address more directly the goal of distributive justice, it can be said that the pro poor tourism falls into optimism and opportunism (colin. H) Which is a negative

This report will analyse the relative advantages and disadvantages of tourism priorities in Libiza. Tourism has become a significant sector that has an impact on development of economics of the countries with touristic cities in the world.

The tourism sector being a strong contributor is just not a new finding as its contribution has received widespread recognition in the country. (The tourism destination conference for 2010) reveals that the tourism receipt for 2009 was at RM 53.367.7 million, with 23.65 million tourist arrivals, making this industry the second largest income earner for the country in the same year and though these figures are laudable, it is said that the ‘local tourism sector has not been exploited to its potential’ (Y.B. Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib, 3rd March 2010). In 2009, Malaysia made it into top 10 most visited countries in the world, and was confidently placed in the 9th position below turkey and Germany. This remark shows that Malaysia’s tourism sector has pulled international recognition and has gained force of attraction that draws the attention of tourists all around the continents of the world to choose Malaysia as their tourism destination.