The question of sustainable development has become a major issue of the 21st century notably due to the climate change. While the original call for sustainable development in Bruntland Report (which goal was to unite countries to pursue sustainable development together) discussed the application of the principles, tourism was not specially discussed’ (Hall, 1998) Yet, there has been an increasing recognition of the role that tourism could play in sustainable development. As it is a driving force of the economy and a powerful instrument of development, it has a role to play to limit its negative impacts whether they are cultural, environmental or economic. That is to say, adopting the principles of sustainable development to tourism. ‘Sustainable tourism is an extension of the concept of sustainable development” (J.Swarbrooke, 1999). The sustainable development is defined in the Bruntland Report as’ a development which meets our needs today without compromising the ability of people in the…
Sustainable Tourism is essentially an industry committed to making a low impact on the natural environment and local culture, while helping to generate income and employment for local people. As Global economists forecast continuing international tourism growth, this continuous growth will place great stress on remaining biologically diverse habitats and indigenous cultures, which are often used to support mass tourism. Therefore it is important that sustainable tourism is promoted and that people are educated about the opportunities provided in order to minimize the effects that tourism poses on the natural environment while helping to benefit local communities.…
Tourism is the world’s largest and fasted growing economic activity. It consists of a multitude of both positive and negative impacts on people’s lives and the biophysical environment. A suitable balance must be established between the environmental, social and economic impacts of tourism in order to ensure its long-term sustainability and in prosperity as a mutually beneficial economic activity on a global and national scale. Achieving sustainable tourism is a continuous process and it requires constant monitoring of its impacts and introducing the necessary preventive and remedial measures to ensure the economic activity is beneficial to both the host nation and tourists nationally and globally.…
Today, many people spend almost all of their money on traveling around the world. Their expenditure makes a big income for many countries such as Caribbean, Egypt or Thailand. This is advantageous to the countries’ development; otherwise, tourism is impacting on these countries. Environmental pollution, destruction of monuments and dilution of culture are some problems that these countries’ government must solve if they depend solely on tourism revenues.…
Cultural authenticity and identity need to be enhanced in every development to achieve identical cultural development and manner. Malaysia is a multi-racial country. Thus, the formation of national culture needs a good planning in order to achieve life style, which can integrate racial culture to develop National identity. Malay culture and heritage are a well-blend of social, culture, economic, architecture, and environment. Hence, sustainable development are stressed on balance and unity between economic development and social needs, also, to meet current need without disturbing future requirements. Time and distance are getting shorter after implications of global impacts on technology development and communication system. The effects can be clearly seen on purpose changes of tourism which are more leading to resources such as sustainable, educational, cultural, agricultural and ecological oriented rather than recreational and entertainment basis. Based on these perspectives, this paper will discuss on sustainable tourism element which will take place in the development of sustainable regional architecture development on island in Malaysia. The existing tourism products and architecture can improve the quality of the island resort in Malaysia.…
The aim of this report is to create, present and defend a suitable Environmental Management System (EMS) for implementation at our chosen hotel, which would be the Shangri La Hotel in Sydney. Over this report, we will discuss what an EMS System is, and its benefits to the company, the current strategies Shangri La has Implemented towards the Environmental movement, what makes and effective design and the relationship of it with Sales Profitability and as well as an evaluation of the changing nature of operations. Along this report, we will also discuss some of our recommendations for the property.…
Recently, more and more hot springs hotels in Taiwan have been built around attractions in order to take advantage of the business opportunity derived from attractions. Nevertheless, under a highly competitive environment, retaining competitive advantages and further developing sustainably is an essential but challenging lesson for hot springs hotels. This paper seeks to find out what the most considerable competitiveness a Taiwanese hot springs hotel should own so as to achieve the aim of sustainable development. Moreover, the concepts of the hot springs tourism in Taiwan, destination competitiveness, tourist satisfaction and sustainable development are discussed in the article. The research method used here is a comprehensive analysis with the secondary data sourced from a variety of research papers about destination competitiveness. In this paper, all study factors for sustainable development are derived from three aspects, which are tourism destination resources and attractions, tourist destination environments and tourist destination strategies. The result is expected to find out not only the significance of destination competitiveness for the hot springs tourism sector but also the determinants that are able to benefit the sustainable development. Overall, the safety and security of hot springs bathing is the most considerable issue for both hotels and customers. Additionally, the government should set effective policies and plans to manage the development of hot springs resources so as to assist the hot springs industry to have an…
Sustainable tourism is a form of tourism that follows the principles of sustainability. According to the WTO, the principles that define sustainable tourism are:…
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Connell, J., & Page, S. J. (2012). Tourism I (3rd ed.). New Tech Park, Singapore:…
table of contents 1. Introduction 2. Singapore Tourism Board (STB) 3. Overview of the trend of Singapore’s tourism 4. The impacts of tourism in Singapore perspective 5. Current situation of Singapore tourism 6. Strategic response for the situation 7. Conclusion 8. References…
As the lifeline of Singapore, the Singapore River, flowing through the central area, is of great social, political and economic importance in the history of Singapore. The mouth of Singapore River, which still stands as the downtown core today, has a long history as bustling trading port.…
Clarke Quay is well-known as an entertainment site, yet it is also rich in history, dating back to as early as the 19th century. It was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles who made Clarke Quay into a centre of trade where coolies could be found loading and unloading a plethora of produce and shipments. (Michelle Lee, 2009) It was an ordinary landscape back then, where people lived and worked. However, in 1977-1978, the waters of Singapore River was found to be polluted so badly, by the trading activities and people living there, that the government had to have a massive clean-up of the river to raise the hygiene level of the waters and its surroundings. (Singapore VR, 2008) Major changes have been made through the redevelopment of Clarke Quay, giving us the present-day Clarke Quay, a centre of entertainment and leisure (Wee, 2009).…
School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Sustainable Tourism Research Cluster (STRC), Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia…
The basic principles of sustainable development for human settlements, townships and boroughs enjoy great popularity and they are likely to have been contrived and introduced for the 1st time by scientific community and public activists striving for better life of common people. They are disseminated all over the world due to the activities and measures taken by the United Nations. In the year of 1983 The World Commission on Environment and Development (that is the Commission of G.H. Bruntland), set up by the Nations, was the first to introduce the very concept of sustainable development, to download it for the whole of the mankind to commonly use it; the sustainable development concept was determined in the following way: the humanity is capable of making its development sustainable – that is to guarantee that such a development will meet the present needs without jeopardizing the abilities of the generations to come to meet their own requirements.[1]…