The Impacts of Sustainable Tourism and Their Influence on Resort Management

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.

Natural landscapes at uninterrupted places are a delight to and also provide opportunities for recreational activities like bird watching, photography etc. It endorses eco-tourism which further generates revenue by designing at zoological, botanical gardens, national parks, wild life conversation etc. People from far and wide devote a lot of time and money to visit wilderness places where they can relish aesthetic values.

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).

Many hospitality industries are doing their best to be sustainable and green. Even though there are many issues hospitality industries are facing. Sustainability includes not only environmental issues but also preservation of local cultures. The industries are still struggling to find measurements and benchmarks for “green” operations generally and energy conservation specifically. Food service operations also face sustainability issues, complicated by guest interest in healthy food and local sourcing. Hotel industry processes and their related resource consumption in hotel operations have some form of environmental impact (Singh, Houdre,

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.

Lodges and resorts are one of most important sector in ecotourism industry. Most of popular venues of ecotour are related with natural environment including mountain, ocean, National park, and undeveloped dwelling. These natural environment should not possess by private interest group. Especially tour programs related with National Parks and World Heritage Sites are need to run and evaluated by impartiality organization such as World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Additionally, Eco rating system is a great criterion in sustainable accommodations which are giving benefits to local communities, using natural sources, and making energy conservation. The Eco-rating System will be a guidelines for both of lodging operators and customers. Operators can design and keep their properties to be more sustainable and eco-friendly as following criteria of Eco-rating System. Ecotourism consumers can choose more reasonable accommodations as checking Eco-rate. The rates leads rational consumption between sustainable levels of lodging and prices. This rating system is helping consumers to prevent deceiving from companies which are using ecotourism only as a marketing tools.

National parks provide a highlight for the travel. These lands are set aside as natural beauties, wonders, and even phenomenons. In 2015, more than 307 million people visited the national parks of the United States, a five percent increase from 2014 (Errick). With such an increase in tourism, it becomes ever more important to implement sustainable tourism practices and make travel good for the visitors and the destination. According to the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture, “sustainable tourism is defined as ‘tourism that respects both local people and the traveller, cultural heritage and the environment.’” The purposes of national parks are to protect the heritage of the park, protect the environment found within the park, and educate the public. These purposes work hand-in-hand with sustainable tourism, and it only makes sense that these two ideals are combined together. Unsustainable travel does not have just one, foul-proof solution. Rather, several small actions combined together will have profound effect in the evolution of the system. With the help of park services and the individual tourist, we can move to a future in which we have no need to specify some tourism as “sustainable”.

In the third word, tourism is one of the main economic activity for countries with less natural resources such as timber, oil, and mineral. Britton (1982) indicates that these countries lack structural economic due to poverty. Today, countries with more money, from the third world, seek to diversify their economy that has been based on natural resources exploitation. This diversification is based on ecotourism due to scenic and unique natural biodiversity. This could be part of “tourism gaze” that Urry (1990) presents as “something distinctive to be gazed upon, that the signs collected by tourists have to be visually extraordinary. This offering should be “visually different and distinguished from otherwise mundane activities. This visual consumption is attached to the aesthetic appropriation of the environment” that could be characterized by unique flowers, landscapes, or wildlife. As new third world countries are entering in the market define and control by western people, they have to propose extraordinary and unique landscape to be gaze, have intense tourism promotion in tourism markets, and all the infrastructure able to attract tourism to them.

commitment to the principles of sustainable tourism, and to go beyond the extensively used but

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

To embrace an advanced and tolerable future tourism field, Taiwan is greatly concerned in environmental sustainablity, natural resources management and tourism infrustructure. The three from a foundation to ensure Taiwan tops in tourism. I

This paper discuses about the sustainable tourism and its practices within a hallmark event. Sustainable tourism is very important because tourism is one of the world’s fastest growing industry and is major source of income of some countries. Tourism industry provide many jobs that help local economy. Olympic movement has been concerned with sustainable tourism practices to promote sustainability. This research will touch the impacts of London Olympics, 2012 had on economic side as well as social and how it helped local community in sustainable development?

This increases the tourism sustainability in turn; sustainability will assist tourism in contributing to economic development as well as improve employees and their families, the local community and society at large. Communication between us is always through national surveys, informative programs and educational resources. These stakeholders would assist our tourist attractions in the following ways,

(Ashley, et al., 2001) The degree of control is significant element of sustainability and the debate is how local communities should be involved in the sustainable development of tourism in their area. If sustainable tourism development is successful, it may help pro-poor tourism to reduce the poverty in different levels. (Mowforth & Munt, 2003) To achieve the sustainable tourism in poor regions tourism development needs to be well planned and managed and the overall environmental quality needs to be maintained and improved. Poverty reduction impacts should be taken into consideration when assessing sustainability. (WTO, 2002)

Planning and development are both extremely important factors within the tourism industry and can have both positive and negative effects on the environment, local communities and tourist destinations. “Destination planning aims to limit the negative impacts of cultural tourism upon the history and lifestyles of the local community. An understanding of sustainable tourist development allows for the development of culture without loss of its authentic identity” (Maidment. T. 2012). This statement discusses the importance of planning to avoid having any negative impacts on environments and communities. Because the effects of tourism are so severe to destinations, many natural and cultural resources have been destroyed, therefore tourism planning is vital to preserve and maintain these places for future generations.