TOU4006 Sustainable Tourism Management (HT114002) Lecture 11 Functional Management in Sustainable Tourism Learning Objectives • Identifying the various measures adopted at the functional level in a premise to attain sustainable tourism development MARKETING Utilizing the 4Ps in Sustainable Tourism Product − Developing products which are more sustainable in nature‚ e.g. conservation holidays or ecotourism − Vacation packages using public transportation rather than private cars − Small-scale rural
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Tourism is considered as a very important sector for most developing countries. It has been viewed as a source of both foreign currency and income for the natives. In this essay I will discuss the importance of tourism and whether it can be sustained‚ by first trying to represent how important tourism is to developing countries and then making a point how sustainable development can be different to sustainable tourism. I will discuss the problems of modern day tourism and will conclude whether sustainable
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Towards Sustainable Tourism Development in Zambia: Advancing Tourism Planning and Natural Resource Management in Livingstone (Mosi-Oa-Tunya) Area. Floyd Misheck Mwanza Department of Landscape Studies‚ College of Architecture & Urban Planning‚ Tongji University‚ 1239 Siping Road‚ Post Code 200092‚ Yang Pu‚ Shanghai‚ P.R. China. Tel: +86 1312 0894 802 ; Fax: 0086 (0)21 6598 0600 E-mail: floydmwanza@gmail.com Abstract Over the last few decades‚ development policy has been dominated by mainstream
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Discuss the contention that sustainable tourism is‚ perhaps‚ an impossible dream. The definition of sustainable tourism is much debated. However‚ a suitable meaning can be inferred from the broadly used definition of sustainable development‚ an economic process to which sustainable tourism is intrinsically linked. Sustainable tourism would be that which ‘meets our needs today‚ without compromising the ability of people in the future to meet their needs’ (Swarbrooke‚ 1999‚ p. 3). These needs would
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Sustainable tourism: learning from Indian religious traditions Vasanti Gupta Director of Insight India‚ Headington‚ Oxford‚ UK Keywords Ethics‚ Green issues‚ India‚ Tourism The context Pilgrimage to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion is an age-old tradition‚ followed by religions all over the world. The fact that it is often carried out on foot‚ is an older form and has many religious connotations‚ has made people overlook it as a form of tourism. Apart from the devotional
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Philippines - Malacañang yesterday disputed the claim of US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. that at least 40 percent of male foreign tourists in the country‚ including Americans‚ come for sexual tourism. Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said the issue was already brought to the attention of Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez‚ who clarified that the statistics cited by the ambassador were inaccurate. Quoting Jimenez‚ Valte said the DOT’s figure shows that “shopping and sightseeing” are the
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SALT IN CYPRUS | | “We ate bread and salt together” (Adage from Cyprus) | | Paper originally done by info@mybestessay.com submitted recently to a girl in Regents College Executive Summary “We ate bread and salt together” (Adage from Cyprus) Cyprus was an important producer and trader of salt till the late 1980s in which the cost of gathering and transporting soil exceeded the salts’ sales. Since then‚ Cyprus has been importing salt despite its richness in salt lakes and in crystal
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Background Jamaica’s economy is heavily dependent on tourism‚ which is the nation’s leading generator of foreign exchange earnings and revenue. Given the competitive nature of tourism in the Caribbean region‚ this sector is especially vulnerable to any degradation of its coastal resources. In recent years‚ negative impacts from poorly planned urban and tourism developments (poor solid waste and wastewater management practices‚ for example) have affected water quality and near shore ecosystems
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United Nations Development Programme CASE STUDIES OF S U S TA I N A B L E D E V E LO P M E N T I N P R AC T I C E TRIPLE WINS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT United Nations Development Programme C A S E S T U D I E S O F S U S TA I N A B L E D E V E LO P M E N T I N P R AC T I C E TRIPLE WINS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT United Nations Development Programme June 2012 Copyright © 2012 United Nations Development Programme. All rights reserved. This publication or parts of it may
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Sustainable development refers to a mode of human development in which resource use aims to meet human needs while ensuring the sustainability of natural systems and the environment‚ so that these needs can be met not only in the present‚ but also for generations to come. The term ’sustainable development ’ was used by the Brundtland Commission‚ which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising
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