This document discusses sustainability principles and their application to resort management. It defines sustainability and its economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Specific sustainability practices for resorts are outlined, including optimizing guest numbers, generating profits for best practices, prioritizing the local community, reducing pollution through renewable energy and organic farming, and implementing eco-friendly construction and operations. Oyster Island resort is provided as a case study of a sustainable resort practice in India.

1. SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES
AND
ITS APPLICATION RESORT
MANAGEMENT
Submitted to Submitted By
ABIN K.I ABHILASH KA
(Lecturer in Tourism Studies ) STS, MGU

2. INTRODUCTION
• Sustainable development represents an opportunity to construct a
new approach, and the success of these efforts has powerful
implications for issues of peace and security.
• Degradation of environment, resulting from unprincipled and
excessive exploitation of the resources of our planet earth, has
threatened to negate, and in fact has already adversely affected
the development registered by various societies.
• "The term 'sustainability' should be viewed as humanity's target
goal of human-ecosystem equilibrium (homeostasis), while
'sustainable development' refers to the holistic approach and
temporal processes that lead us to the end point of sustainability.

3. SUSTAINABILITY
• Sustainability A dynamic equilibrium in the process of
interaction between a population and the carrying capacity of
its environment such that the population develops to express
its full potential without producing irreversible, adverse
effects on the carrying capacity of the environment upon
which it depends.
• The ultimate objective of establishing the concept of
sustainability as an organizing principle for the planet is to
foster a well-functioning alignment between individuals,
society, the economy and the regenerative capacity of the
planet’s life-supporting ecosystems.

4. Meaning and Definition
• "Sustainable development is development that meets the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of
future generations to meet their own needs.
• The definition of “sustainability” is the study of how natural
systems function, remain diverse and produce everything it
needs for the ecology to remain in balance. It also
acknowledges that human civilisation takes resources to
sustain our modern way of life
• Sustainable development is maintaining a delicate balance
between the human need to improve lifestyles and feeling of
well-being on one hand, and preserving natural resources and
ecosystems, on which we and future generations depend.

5. ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
• Economic sustainability’ implies a system of production that
satisfies present consumption levels without compromising
future needs. The ‘sustainability’ that ‘economic sustainability’
seeks is the ‘sustainability’ of the economic system itself. The
notion of ‘economic sustainability’ was originated by Hicks.
• An economic system designed in light of the theory of
‘economic sustainability’ is one constrained by the
requirements of ‘environmental sustainability’. It restrains
resource use to ensure the ‘sustainability’ of natural capital. It
does not seek to achieve ‘economic sustainability’ at the cost
of ‘environmental sustainability’.

6. SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
• ‘Social Sustainability’ implies a system of social organization
that alleviates poverty. In a more fundamental sense,
however, ‘social sustainability’ establishes the nexus between
social conditions such as poverty and environmental decay.
• This theory of social organization identifies a negative linkage
between sustained colonization, sustained poverty levels, and
sustained natural resource exploitation.

7. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
• Environmental sustainability’ requires maintaining natural
capital as both a provider of economic inputs called ‘sources’
and an absorber called ‘sinks’ of economic outputs called ‘
wastes’.
• The goal of environmental sustainability is to conserve natural
resources and to develop alternate sources of power while
reducing pollution and harm to the environment.

8. SUSTAINABLITYPRINCIPLESTOCONSIDERINRESORT
DEVELOPMENT
• Resort development involves a difficult trade-off
between benefits and unfavorable impacts on the
aspects:
1. Economic
2. Social
3. Environmental

9. A. SustainableEconomicConsiderationsin Resort
Development
1. Optimum numbers of guest in the resort
2. A % of Profits should be utilized for best
environmental practices
3. Don’t think only about profits
4. Conserve nature and develop your property
5. Economic benefit and welfare for local community

10. • It is imperative for a resort to develop &
maintain good relations with the local
community
• They are the main source of labor
• They are local customers
• They provide community services
• The community’s peace & order and general attitude
towards tourism and tourists has great impact on
tourism movement to the resort
B. Social Considerations in Resort Development

11. 1. Reduction of pollution through sustainable practices
.Using battery operated vehicle inside the resort
2. Using Renewable energy sources
Solar cells / plants
3. Organic farming practices –
vegetables, fruits, livestock, poultry
4. Recycling of waste water / Rain water harvesting
5. Avoid constructing concrete and tarred roads
6. Implementing eco friendly constructions – Cottages,
Tree huts, Resting huts, Restaurants etc
C. EnvironmentalConsiderationin ResortDevelopment

12. 7. Tented cottages
8. Roof open ventilation / Glass cover (Rainy season)
9. Food served in eco friendly plates and leaves – arecanut
10. Waste management – Plant ( Biodegradable & Non
deradable)
11. Lights – Candle lights, Lanterns, (Tree huts)
13. Maintaining greens all around – (Natural greenery plus
planting new ones)
14. Protecting the habitat of birds and animals

13. 15. Medicinal plant garden.
16 Paper covers.
17. Sustainable awareness to the guest.
18. Conservation of natural water resources – Ponds, streams.
19. Island Resort – Non mechanized boats for carrying guest.
20. Avoid land reclamation and mining.
Conservation
• Resort development may damage the flora & fauna
Aesthetic impact
• Resort development may alter the view & beauty of the natural landscape

14. OYESTER OPERA, KASARGOD
Sustainability practices
• Mussel-farming practice which involved the local population in the
production.
• Oyster farming.
• Floating cottage.
In today’s age of huge concrete jungle and massive hotels, oyster
island is truly a testament that tourism doesn’t need to drain the
resources of the destination but it can be a positive force helping to
sustain the local way of life.
Oysters do not require additional feed inputs such as fish meal from
wild-capture fisheries. Instead, they filter-feed on tiny particles,
plankton, and organic matter found in the water column. Therefore,
oysters are self-sustaining and can actually improve local water
quality.

16. MAJORSUSTAINABILITYPRACTICESINRESORTS
• Guest Room Sustainability --- energy-saving light bulbs , linen and
towel reuse program , reduction of cleaning chemicals,
• Environmental Communication and Advocacy--- staff environmental
training , encouraging recycling among guests, environmental
education of guests.
• Waste Management--- recovery of used cooking oil , collection and
separation of hazardous waste, cooperation with local recycling
firms.
• Pollution and Water Management--- rain capture and reuse, on-site
waste water treatment, use of treated waste water for landscaping
irrigation,
• Purchasing Policies--- Purchasing reusable products , purchasing
products that are designed to reduce environmental impacts,
choosing less-hazardous cleaning supplies .

17. • Energy Issues--- producing renewable energy, using a hybrid or
alternative fuel transportation fleet,

18. CONCLUSION
• Sustainable development is the practice of developing land and
construction projects in a manner that reduces their impact on the
environment by allowing them to create energy efficient models of
self-sufficiency. This can take the form of installing solar panels or
wind generators on factory sites, using geothermal heating
techniques or even participating in cap and trade agreements. The
biggest criticism of sustainable development is that it does not do
enough to conserve the environment in the present and is based on
the belief that the harm done in one area of the world can be
counter balanced by creating environmental protections in the other.