Sustainable Approach to Tourism Management

Due to the importance of tourism to the economy of Australia, it is essential that the stakeholders ensure sustainability in tourism, leisure and event management to promote the sector. Good tourism policies, efficient relationship between the sector and the local community as well as environment conservation policies should be enhanced to boost this vital sector. This report aims at highlighting the need for sustainability in tourism, leisure and event management the South Bank in Australia.

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.

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).

Additionally, the study found that hotels with a non-financial reporting control system were more likely to adopt an environmental policy. In 1996, when this article was published, green policies were considered stratagems instead of bonafide, widespread business strategies for all hotels to take into consideration to participate in environmentally-responsible business practices. The author concludes that until environmental concerns become strategic issues added into the control system with rewards, the response will remain the same; green policies and practices will be considered stratagems.

Write on the key concepts and issues of sustainable development and show relationships between sustainable development and sustainable tourism planning.

Globally the tourism and hospitality industry is undergoing and evolving the radical changes. From the past experiences are now advancing at greater pace through faster development of skills and knowledge developed to create and adapt innovation in several ways. Therefore, it is important to have greater understanding of current issues and knowledge in order to cope with future challenges effectively.

Many hotels utilize sustainability as a strategy setting for operations, and as a critical success factor (Boerner, 2010). A company become more sustainable by evaluating the positive and negative environmental, economic, and socio cultural impacts on hospitality industry and helps the operation to be in profit and minimize waste or harmful aspects. Environmental certification program for hotels Provides technical guidance. Participating facilities area warded between 1and5 Green Keys depending on loyalty to criteria (LRA Worldwide,

At last, the ecological element is also important when investigating the business environment and the CSR has gradually ended up coordinated in numerous associations' business goals. For a hotel industry to be socially, dependable it must finish numerous approaches, for example, submitting to the energy consumption laws, lessening carbon footprint, and connecting with the local community. Then again, the natural disaster has turned out to be incessant. Subsequently, numerous destination spots are intensely influenced and sustainable tourism must be practiced to save natural resources (Levonsky & Conley, 2004).

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The debate over ecotourism's success as a tool for conservation and development in the developing world is aggravated by the dispute over what exactly ecotourism is. The International Ecotourism Society offers a succinct and often cited definition: “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people” (TIES). Ecotourism is often tied to the concept of sustainable development. “Sustainable tourism development meets the needs of present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing opportunities for the future” (WTOa).

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

Tourists are environmental consumers and thus, the tourism industry axiomatically requires natural environment and human quality. In the broadest sense, environmental issues and social responsibility practices are academic and hence, are unrelated to business interests. As a result, the study aims to measure the awareness level of tour operations and ascertains the current practices that have enabled practical, positive, and professional pressure for the development of sustainability in the tourism industry. Tour operators are business entities combining two or more services of travel (sightseeing, transport, catering, accommodation, and entertainment among others) thereafter sell them through agencies of travel or to consumers directly as a package tour. In essence, a tour operator becomes an intermediary who brings both buyers and sellers together with the aim of expanding the market size through the creation of markets where they did not exist, and or ensure the existing markets work efficiently (Cooper et al. 1998, p.189). This study aims at recognizing the plan of their programs, which has enabled the tour operators to remain profitable despite the existing competition in the sector. Undifferentiated products and small margins particularly the mass marketers characterize the British tour operators. Furthermore, operators like Thomson, Airtours, and First Choice dominate the market although the trend is moving towards oligopoly.

The purpose of this report was to investigate and critically review the environmental and social sustainability tourism management practices in the Philippines.

Everyone seems to know about Dubai today and it is well on its way in becoming the tourist capital of the world with one of a kind tourist projects being constructed one after the other. The number of tourists that visit Dubai has increased by 80 percent in the last five years. Endless skyscrapers, restaurants, and malls everywhere in addition to man-made islands that are home to many individuals. One must keep in mind that this city is amid a desert and the water supply cannot meet the demands sustainably, as in this lifestyle cannot continue. With all the glamour in Dubai it is fairly easy to look the other way when acknowledging the impacts all these developments can have on the environment. Tourism projects and the increase in the

Land degradation Important land resources include fertile soil, forests, wetlands and wildlife. Increased construction of tourism facilities has increased the pressure on these resources and on scenic landscapes. Direct impact on natural resources in the provision of tourist facilities can be caused by the use of land for accommodation and other infrastructure provision, and the use of building materials. Forests often suffer negative impacts of tourism in the form of deforestation caused by fuel wood collection and land clearing. For example, one trekking tourist in Nepal can use four to five kilograms of wood a day.