The Impact of Tourism in Dubai
INTRODUCTION:
Tourism is no more an occasional past-time for wealthy and adventurous people. Nowadays, everyone is participating in the tourism industry, may it be a catering company, a hotel or an entertainment business. In fact, tourism has an impressive impact on its host country’s economy. It increases growth rate, national profit, investment and country celebrity as well, going from short term to long term improvements. However, it has crucial negative impacts on other sectors, mostly, the environment. Gradually, the ecosystem has been affected taking with it an increase of pollution and a decrease in natural resources of the country. Dubai is good example to take in order to analyze the impacts of tourism on the short and long runs, taking into account its advantages and disadvantages on the economic and natural environment of the country.
Dubai is a fast growing country which will welcome 15 million tourists by the year 2010 according to Salem bin Dasmal, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Tourism Development Company (DTDC). (1) Hence, a huge number of investments have been accomplished in order to get prepared for the coming visitors. Therefore, the impact it is creating, both positive and negative, is the topic we will discuss afterward.
Indeed, tourism has many harmful impacts on the environment. It increases pollution in many ways. We will focus, on the second part of this paper about how does it happen, what measure the national government have taken and what can be done to decrease those side effects of tourism.
POSITIVE IMPACTS OF TOURISM:
Dubai makes a considerable promotion of the country to give a positive picture known as one of the best destination in the world. The economy has been boomed over years thanks to the development of the tourism sector, by the improvement of infrastructures in the country. Dubai has betted huge investment on this area: especially roads, airports and now the construction of metro. Truth
Tourism is no more an occasional past-time for wealthy and adventurous people. Nowadays, everyone is participating in the tourism industry, may it be a catering company, a hotel or an entertainment business. In fact, tourism has an impressive impact on its host country’s economy. It increases growth rate, national profit, investment and country celebrity as well, going from short term to long term improvements. However, it has crucial negative impacts on other sectors, mostly, the environment. Gradually, the ecosystem has been affected taking with it an increase of pollution and a decrease in natural resources of the country. Dubai is good example to take in order to analyze the impacts of tourism on the short and long runs, taking into account its advantages and disadvantages on the economic and natural environment of the country.
Dubai is a fast growing country which will welcome 15 million tourists by the year 2010 according to Salem bin Dasmal, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Tourism Development Company (DTDC). (1) Hence, a huge number of investments have been accomplished in order to get prepared for the coming visitors. Therefore, the impact it is creating, both positive and negative, is the topic we will discuss afterward.
Indeed, tourism has many harmful impacts on the environment. It increases pollution in many ways. We will focus, on the second part of this paper about how does it happen, what measure the national government have taken and what can be done to decrease those side effects of tourism.
POSITIVE IMPACTS OF TOURISM:
Dubai makes a considerable promotion of the country to give a positive picture known as one of the best destination in the world. The economy has been boomed over years thanks to the development of the tourism sector, by the improvement of infrastructures in the country. Dubai has betted huge investment on this area: especially roads, airports and now the construction of metro. Truth
References: (1)- Anne-Birte Stensgaard (2004) “Dubai has begun to look beyond 2010-tourism growth targets, bin Dasmal”, AME Info business resources. Available at: http://www.ameinfo.com/38860.html (accessed 09/01/2008) (2)-“Dubai Tourism”, BMG-Group, http://www.bmg-group.de/content/articles/documents/buyapropretyindubai/tourism_hotels_and_app.pdf (accessed 09/01/2008) (3)- Laith Abou-Ragheb (2007) “Green Campaigners Keep Watch On Dubai Man-Made Isles”, Energy Daily. Available at: http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Green_Campaigners_Keep_Watch_On_Dubai_Man_Made_Isles_999.html (4)- Susan Horner and John Swarbrook, 2003, ‘International Cases in Tourism Management’, p109