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CRITIQUE OF CURRENT THINKING IN SUSTAINABLE TOURISM - Coggle Diagram
CRITIQUE OF CURRENT THINKING IN SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
Lack of factual evidence
independent travel is more sustainable than package holiday tourism
small scale tourism is always better than mass tourism
Cultural tourism is more sustainable than hedonistic tourism
Green tourist
1.Not all green
Read what brochures say abt green issues and sustainable tourism
2.Light green
Think abt green issues and try to reduce normal water consumption in destination where scarce for example
3.Dark Green
Boycott hotels and resorts which have poor reputation on environmental issues
4.Totally Green
Not take holiday away from home at all so as not harm the environment in any way as tourist.
Ecotourism
Less harmful and more sustainable than mainstream mass tourism
The concept of carrying capacity
Common one in the sustainable tourism literature
Physical Capacity
Environmental or ecological
Economic Capacity
Social Capacity
Perceptual Capacity
Infrastructure Capacity
De-marking
This involves manipulating the marketing mix or '4Ps' discourage rather than attract tourist to visit destinations which are thought to be over-visited.
Tourist taxes and fair pricing
To help develop sustainable tourism in 2 ways
1.Charging tourist taxes are high enough to discourage some tourists visiting certain places , thus reducing demand and the problems which flow from over-use.
Using the funds generated by the tourists taxes to help pay for the maintenance and development of the local tourism infrastructure.
Visitor Management
To manage tourism in area where it seens to be having the negative impacts
usually involves trying to divert demand away from 'boney-port' area and involves initiatives like:
Using interpretation technique to try to direct demand to less heavily used area of the region.
Closing road from time to time and/sitting car park, so that visitors cannot drive into already overcrowded or environmental fragile areas.
Private vs Public transport
The private car has been seen as enemy of sustainable tourism particularly in country sites or historical cities.
That imprisons them in traffic jams and cause untold harm to the physical environment.
Encourage tourist to left their car at home and use public transport instead are unsuccessful because they:
Tourist enjoy the flexibility and freedom which using their own car
Public transport system are often inconvenient because of the need to travel to a pick-up point and the fact that consumers have to fit in operator's timetable.
Tourist Education
Make them more concern abt the environmental impact of tourism and the principle of sustainable tourism
Community Involvement and local control
Role of public sector planning
The public sector tourism planning will play major role in in the development of sustainable tourism.
The role of industry
Industry often appears to be more concerned with sustainable tourism than consumers.
Principle of partnership
Most public bodies lack the budget or expertise to have the significant impact on the tourism industry and its activities.
The concept of partnership in tourism which have taken the number of forms including:
The visitor and the convention Bureaux
Government encouragement of industry to take the issue of sustainability more seriously via report and conference.
Power without responsibility
Power without responsibility
People seeking to have power over the lives of other people, without necessarily having any responsibility towards this same people.
some decision makers or would be decision makers want:
Stop other people from visiting particular places without having to offer them any alternative
Forces the industry to change its practices varying ways without having any responsibility towards this same people