understand the significance of sustainability and responsible tourism towards the economy, society and environment

1. SUSTAINABLE AND
RESPONSIBLE
TOURISM
SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

2. OBSERVING A CARTOON

3. • We all know what natural resources are? What was used to make the desks that
we use at school?

4. PROCESS OF MAKING A DESK

5. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DO NOT TAKE CARE OF OUR
NATURAL RESOURCES?
How Is that going to affect us?
• Plant and animal life will not flourish
• Animals, birds will be threatened by air pollution
• Resources will not be conserved for future generation to enjoy
• Tourists arrivals in our country would drop

6. SUSTAINABLE AND RESPONSIBLE
TOURISM
• It is the ability for something to be kept the same.
• Or to be kept in better condition for the future
• Sustainable and responsible tourism are used in
• today’s conversation for the worlds concern for
global warming
• It is concerned with the wellbeing of the
• environment, people and economy.

7. THE NEED FOR SUSTAINABLE
PRACTICES IN BUSINESSES
• Businesses are not focusing on making a profit only
• They are expected to follow principles of social
• responsibility to ensure sustainable development
• Businesses help to market and sell products

8. 3 PILLARS OF SUSTAINABLE
TOURISM
• Environmental impacts ( Planet)
• Social impacts (people)
• Economical impact (profit)

9. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
• Impacts of businesses should be positive on the environment
• Business are depending on the environment to attract tourist
• NB: no natural resources many business are going down
• Business implement policies that promote sustainability
• Businesses are responsible for the sustainability and the environment they
operate within

10. SOCIAL IMPACTS (PEOPLE)
• Local communities who live in tourism areas are affected by tourism
• They have their way of living and traditions
• If the environment changes their lives are going to
change as well
• If tourists are visiting the area local communities
create ways of making money

11. CONT.
• Local communities benefit from sustainable tourism by teaching tourists their
culture and traditions (by selling arts and crafts)

12. ECONOMICAL IMPACTS (PROFIT)
• Tourism businesses affect local community’s economic situation
• Involvement of local communities in tourism promotes local talent
• Local communities benefit through job creation (Indirect and Direct)
• Living standards of people improves and economic situation as well

13. CLASS DISCUSSION (5 MINUTES)
• What is our responsibilities in sustaining the environment?
• What is the social responsibilities in sustainable tourism
• Economic responsibility

14. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE
3PILLARS
• Environment
• Responsibility to protect natural resources
• Using products that are not harmful to the environment such as solar powers

15. SOCIAL
• Empower local communities that are affected by tourism
• e.g. Involving them by providing them with jobs

16. ECONOMIC
• Provide jobs
• Promote economics growth in a country
• By opening a B&B business in a local community and hiring people from that
community

17. GOOD ENVIRONMENTAL
PRACTICES
• Litter Control
• Encourage tourists not litter
• By controlling littering the environmental looks
cleaner and healthier
• Possible dangers for animals are reduced
• Provide enough rubbish bins

18. CONTINATION
• Conserving Energy
• energy should be used wisely for it to last
• Use solar powers
• Switch all electric appliances when not used
• Conserving water and scares resources
• Water is important source in our everyday living
• People, companies and factories use water
• If we do not conserve it we might run out of it
• Trees are used to make papers

19. CONTINUATION
• If there are no new trees in a place of the one
• being cut down we wont have more trees
• Make sure taps are properly closed

20. BENEFITS OF GOOD
ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES
• What do you do if you have visited a place and you
• were provided with excellent customer service?

21. CONCLUSION
• Sustainability is important in the tourism industry,
• not only people are benefiting from it but the
• economy and the businesses are growing as well.
• }Everyone benefit from being sustainable in the
• tourism industry
• }Good environmental practices should be taken into
• consideration

22. HOME ACTIVITY
• Mr Jones owns a new hotel in Durban in which normally gets filled in by leisure
tourists mostly during the holidays of December. This is because it is located near
areas such as the beach, of which many tourists go there and enjoy their time. This
area normally gets overcrowded by tourists who litter on the environment, leaving the
place polluted and non-environmentally friendly for others. Mr Jones is therefore
willing to take actions about the matter as he can see that this might affect his
business, but has no idea of which steps to undertake.
• Question: Read the above case study and use the information to state the possible
impacts the tourists might have on the environment, economy and local communities
of Durban and also state some of the rules Mr Jones might propose to tourists who
come stay at his hotel.