Topic 3 Book 2

Question 1

How can tourism develop economic sustainability?

Answer 1

• Continueing provide employement opportunities and income growth
  => Locals have stable income
• Increase provision of services and rise the living standard
  => Money tourists paid on taxes
  => Increases standard of living

Question 2

How can tourist ensure social sustainability

Answer 2

• Respect authencity of local communitites, practises and art forms
• Contribute to cultural understanding and tolerance

Question 3

How can tourist ensure environmental sustainability?

Answer 3

• Maintain essential ecological processes
• Conserve natural heritage and biodiversity

Question 4

Pro/cons of government actions

Answer 4

Pros:
- Establish policies, creating plans
+ Ensure minimum risks to environment, maximum benefits to locals
e.g: Sentosa plans to conserve biodiversity, preserve heritage to achieve carbon neutral
- Enforcing regulations
+ In bhutan, tourists can only visit the country by planning organized trip with liscensed tour operators
Limitations:
- Poor enforcement
+ Government with lack political influence
- Pioritize economic development
+ Neglect environmental and social sustainability.

Question 5

International organizations

Answer 5

• offering consultantcy on how sustainable development can be achieved
  -provide financial assistance
• raise public awareness about how they can help to achieve sustainability tourist developement
  limitations:
• lack of understanding local context
• lack of funding

Question 6

Buisinesses

Answer 6

• seek advice from other stakeholders
• participate in decision-making

limit:
-compromising on sustainable practices to survive
- different understanding and ways to achieve

Question 7

Local communities

Answer 7

• seek advices from other stake holders
  -participating in decision-making process

limit:
-lack of financial support
-prioritize economical benefits

Question 8

Tourists

Answer 8

-develope interest
-interact responsibly with environment and locals

limit:
-out of budget
-confusing information
=> tourists don’t know what option to choose to sustanability,…

Question 9

Stake holders challenge

Answer 9

• different understanding+measurements
  -different amounts of control over resources
  -different priorities7

Question 10

Ecotourism

Answer 10

-educate and increase tourists’ appreciation for nature
- take measurements to minimize negative impacts on environment
limits:
-uncertainty of continuous efforts
-uncertainty to involve community

Question 11

Community-based tourism

Answer 11

• encourage communities involve in decision-making process
• put in meeasure to increase economical and social benefits to locals
• educate and increase tourists’ appreaciation of local cultures and environment

limits:
-loss of culture
-competitive with large-scale tourism development

Question 12

pro-poor tourism

Answer 12

• training
  -increase access to micro-finance

limits:
-inability to remove poverty compared to directly invest in social services
-economic profits unequally distributed, often to non-poor locals