Importance of Managing and Adopting Collaboration and Partnership in the Tourism Industry

Making tourism more sustainable is not just about controlling and managing the negative impacts of the industry. Tourism is in a very special position to benefit local communities, economically and socially, and to raise awareness and support for conservation of the environment.

By the start of the 80’s, both inbound and outbound tourism was booming all over US and Europe (rita.dot.gov). The company developed their third of the four strategic decisions based on expansion of their business – culture. Their credo was shaped as the Golden Rule that is nowadays embraced by all their employees worldwide – “we treat others – all others: customers, employees, partners, suppliers – as one would wish to be treated”. (COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE)

Sustainable development is the economic development that is conducted with depleting natural resources and also the development of tourism that meets the needs of the present without compromising future generation’s ability to meet their own needs (WCED, 1987). Sustainable tourism refers to the practices, policies and programs that is considered to reach the expectations of the tourist with not natural resources management but also the communities that are affected by tourism (UNEP, 2011). Sustainable tourism should maintain a level of tourist satisfaction as well as their expectations. Taking the opportunity to raise awareness to them about sustainable issues and promote sustainable practices amongst them (UNWTO,

As defined by the World Tourism Organization (WTO), tourism comprises the activities of persons travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business, and other purposes. Key concepts of sustainable development and sustainable tourism, values and ethics of sustainable tourism and the needs of sustainability in all form of tourism shall be discussed in this essay.

Biodiversity is the variability of the earth’s species, the genes they contain, the ecosystems in which they live, and the ecosystem processes, such as energy flow and nutrient cycling that sustain all life. (Miller & Spoolman, 2009. pg. 50) It involves many of the levels of organization of life, including genetic diversity species diversity, ecological diversity, and functional diversity. Biodiversity makes up the structure of the ecosystems and habitats that support essential living resources, including wildlife, fisheries and forests. It assists in providing for basic human needs such as food, shelter, and medicine. It composes ecosystems that maintain oxygen in the air, enrich the soil, purify the water, protect against flood and

Today, tourism has become a global phenomenon being widely recognized in both regional and national levels. In fact, tourism is considered as one of the fastest growing sectors in the world economy, thereby being viewed as a potential sector in raising tax revenues, providing employment opportunities as well as promoting economic diversity (Khizindar, 2012). Goeldner and Ritchie (2006) indicate that the significance of tourism has increased considerably through educational institutions such as universities as well as media, which are conduits of spreading the concept of tourism and hospitality .For instance, Saudi Arabia is one of those countries in the Middle East, which is determined to promote tourism for growth and sustainability despite belonging to those nations that have historically built their economies on oil and natural gas (Eid, 2012).

Biodiversity is the to a great degree complex unification of countless types of greenery, fauna and microorganisms that exist into one natural ecosystem, and is the establishment for life on Earth, which is precisely why saving biodiversity is essential.

Biodiversity is a measure of the diversity among organisms in different ecosystems. "Diversity" in this definition includes diversity within a species and among species, and among ecosystems.’

Every ecosystem on earth relies on the complex relationships made between individual species which have evolved over millions of years. In this jigsaw framework, the loss of any one individual species has a significant impact on the remaining species and the ecosystem, thereby affecting its biodiversity. Per Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, biodiversity is the whole collection of living organisms, consisting of different species of plants and animals, that cohabitate in an ecosystem. This term collectively describes approximately all 8.7 million unique species, including every class of bacteria, virus, plant, fungi, and animal, that coexist on earth.

This book presents results that were implemented during 2011 in the execution of a bilateral protocol of cooperation signed between the Faculty of Architecture University of Belgrade and the National Tourism Development Corporation at the beginning of year, under the auspices of the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development of the Republic of Serbia. The cooperation was initiated with the idea of achieving a qualitative contribution to the further development and promotion of investment projects in tourism in the Republic of Serbia, and has yielded very fruitful results that are partially presented by this monograph.

This report is going to focus upon the tourism industry within the service sector, looking at, the tourism product, the business operations cycle, the service concept, and then the idea of the service concept will be applied to the tourist attraction Alton towers.

Sustainable tourism is stated to be tourism development that "avoids damage to the environment, economy and cultures of the locations where it takes place. The aim of sustainable tourism is to ensure that development is a positive experience for local people; tourism companies; and tourists themselves." (The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012) The tourism industry is such that produces "significant impacts on natural resources, consumption patterns, pollution and social systems." (The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012) The facts on tourism include that 980 million individuals travel internationally (2011 data) and that number is estimated to reach 1.5 trillion by 2020. Travel and tourism is representative of 10% of the total global Gross Domestic Product (GD), which is inclusive of other related tourism businesses such as catering and cleaning. Finally, there are approximately 25 million individuals across 52 countries that have been displaced by violence, persecution and other disasters all of which affects tourism receipts in every country throughout the world. (The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012, paraphrased) Sustainable tourism is stated to be about ""¦re-focusing and adapting. A balance must be found between limits and usage so that continuous changing, monitoring and planning ensure that tourism can be managed. This requires thinking long-term (10, 20+ years) and

The purpose of community empowerment in tourism is to bring about cohesion among a community to promote economic growth, communal involvement, and political awareness. Based on these three factors, it has been discovered that each factor utilizes one another to be successful when tourism is involved. For a community to be more sustainable, many aspects come into play, as stated above. Tourism allows wealth to be injected into a community in a variety of ways. The great benefit of the tourism industry is that it is tremendously labor intensive, and many of the businesses that operate within it are only small, local businesses. For a budding tourist destination, there is a vast range of benefits. It is also great for tourists, because with a blooming tourism industry, there is an abundance of things to do, a sufficient amount of places to stay at, and as an outcome, more visitors are drawn to the location. Without these factors working together, sustainability would be difficult to achieve within a community. Communal empowerment consists of multiple aspects that need to work together to bring about effective, sustainable tourism, one of which is economic progress.

Biodiversity is the variety of living organisms (Cho, 2011). Currently, an extreme loss of biodiversity is a problem that is being caused by human activities. A major report in 2005 stated that due to human actions, between 10% and 30% of mammal, bird, and amphibian species are threatened with extinction, since then, the problem has only increased (Shah, 2014).

In future new tourism destinations tourism developers already face hurdles of growth, mainly in the development phase of the purpose life cycle. funds in the tourism destination communications are however needed to secure a convinced quality normal of tourism both for tourists and population alike. The untrustworthy phases of involvement and growth