Tourism planning involves analyzing the existing tourism situation and resources in an area. This includes considering other public sector plans, existing tourism programs, and conducting an inventory of natural resources like climate, flora, forests, and water bodies as well as cultural resources like historic buildings. Planning looks to the future and is done to achieve organizational objectives. The need for planning includes anticipating unpredictable futures, achieving goals, overcoming competition, reducing uncertainty, coordinating departments, efficiently using resources, determining resource needs, and forecasting events.

1. NEED FOR
TOURISM
PLANNING

3. What is the present
situation?
The first phase is concerned
with an analysis of the
existing situation which gives
the direction for the suceeding
phases.

4. •The background analysis phase takes into
consideration the policies and plans of other
public sector bodies which have an impact on
tourism and identifies the existing tourism
related programs.

5. •The background study and analysis results
in the assessment of the tourism resource
componentsof the area and preparation of the
inventory*.
Tourism Resources
NATURAL RESOURCES
CLIMATE FLORA
FORESTS
WATER RESOURCES
e.g Rivers, Lakes

6. CULTURAL RESOURCES
HISTORIC
BUILDINGS

7. DEFINITION
Acc to Haynes and Massey,
“Planning is that function of a manager in
which, he decides in advance what he will
do. It is an intellectual process in which
,creative thinking and imagination are
essential”.

8. • Planning , therefore, is looking into the
future.
• Planning is done to achieve a set of objective
for the organization

9. Need of Planning
1. The planning process anticipates and
estimates unpredictable future
2. It helps in achieving such goals as are set by
the top brass

10. 3. It helps in meeting the demands of
competition; as such, it overcomes
competition in local, national and global
markets

11. 4. It reduces the element of uncertainty in
the entire managerial process
5. It helps the management bring co-
ordination among the various
departments of an organization

12. 6. It leads to efficient and optimal use of
resources for the purpose of achieving the
goals of organization

13. 7. It determines requirement of resource ,
materials and equipment at all three
levels

14. 8. It involves forecasting of the future. The
manager forecasts those events that
would occur in the future(and affect his
goals).So ,he uses forecasting techniques
and statistical methods to anticipate facts
about the working of the organization.