This document discusses sustainable tourism and strategies to promote it. Sustainable tourism is defined as tourism that respects local people/culture and the environment, and provides long-term benefits. There are three elements: optimal environmental resource use, respect for socio-cultural values, and ensuring long-term economic benefits. Strategies to promote sustainable tourism include establishing laws/regulations to protect the environment and cultures, promoting ecotourism in natural areas, and supporting community-based tourism that involves and benefits local communities. While these strategies can help, there are challenges like non-compliance with guidelines and poor management that can limit their effectiveness.

1. Global Tourism
Managing Tourism Impacts
Ensuring Sustainability

2. By the end of this lesson
You should be able to:
1. Explain what sustainable tourism is.
2. Evaluate the strategies of sustainable
tourism.

3. Oman turtle centre
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4. Class work
• Define 'conservation of
environments
• Define ' sustainable tourism'
• Explain how tourism can be made
sustainable?
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5. Sustainable Tourism
• It refers to :
– Tourism that respects both local people and
the traveller, cultural heritage and the
environment. (UNESCO)
– tourism activity that can be maintained over
the long term because it results in a net benefit
for the social, economic, natural and cultural
environments of the area in which it takes
place.

6. 3 Elements of Sustainable Tourism
1. Make optimal use of environmental resources
that constitute a key element in tourism
development, maintaining essential ecological
processes and helping to conserve natural
heritage and biodiversity.

7. 3 Elements of Sustainable Tourism
2. Respect the socio-cultural authenticity of host
communities, conserve their built and living
cultural heritage and traditional values, and
contribute to inter-cultural understanding and
tolerance.

8. 3 Elements of Sustainable Tourism
3. Ensure viable, long term economic operations,
providing
socio-economic
benefits
to all
stakeholders that are fairly distributed, including
stable employment
and income earning
opportunities and social services to host
communities, and contributing to poverty
alleviation.

9. Extended Activity
• Stakeholders of tourism must work
together and respect each other for
sustainable tourism to be successful
• Each stakeholder can also play their part in
making tourism more sustainable

10. Strategies of Sustainable Tourism
1. Establish Laws and Regulations
2. Promoting Ecotourism
3. Promoting Community Based Tourism

11. Establish Laws and Regulations
• Refers to the setting up of guidelines or
restrictions by planning authorities
• This is to deter tourists from irresponsible
behaviour
• Environmental
damage
would
be
minimised and local cultures and traditions
would be respected through such law
enforcements

12. Establish Laws and Regulations
• Law of wildlife conservation in
Costa Rica
• Tourists prohibited from taking
plants and flowers
• Tourists also prohibited from
feeding wild animals to prevent
them from being dependent on
humans for food

13. Establish Laws and Regulations
• Photographs of
certain sections of the
sacred aboriginal
landmark of Uluru
(Ayers Rock) are not
allowed to be taken as
a sign of respect to
the aboriginal culture
and tradition

14. Establish Laws and Regulations
Problems
• Not
all
tourists
conform
to
the
environmentally-friendly guidelines
as
many feel the use or overuse of resources
is justifiable with payment
• Tourists may also feel self-important and
show little respect for local cultures and
traditions, hence creating disharmony
among the local society

15. Promoting Ecotourism
• Ecotourism refers to environmentally
responsible travel to relatively undisturbed
natural areas that promotes conservation
and improves the well-being of locals
• Practicing ecotourism will allow tourists to
enjoy the experience of being in natural
environments, promote conservation and
ensure that the locals benefit economically

16. Promoting Ecotourism
• Sea-Canoe
ecotourism
Company
(Phuket) limits tourist
numbers to 64 per day
in consideration of the
carrying capacity of
the
ecologically
sensitive region

17. Promoting Ecotourism
Problems
• Tour operators driven by profits may fail to
conduct
tourist
activities
following
ecotourism guidelines hence end up
degrading the environment

18. Promoting Community Based Tourism
• Refers to the development and management of
tourism that includes, consults and benefits the
local community, especially in the context of
rural villages and indigenous people
• Giving the locals control over tourist activities
will allow the local community to contribute their
intimate knowledge of the local environment to
tourism projects and help manage the negative
impact of tourism

19. Promoting Community Based Tourism
• National
Tourism
Authority
of
Laos
consults
the
communities of the
Phou Khao Khouay
nature reserves in
Laos before making
decisions on various
tourist projects

20. Promoting Community Based Tourism
Problems
• Many community-based tourism projects
have also failed due to improper
management and poor accessibility.
• A survey of 200 CBT projects in Latin
America reflected only 5% occupancy for
most accommodations.

21. Homework text page 75 q1b (4m)
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