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Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
At the Globe ‘ Conference in Vancouver a different definition was offered; “Sustainable tourism development is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that we can fulfil economic, social and aesthetic needs while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity and life support systems”.
Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
Considering the Brundtland Commission (1987) development is sustainable when “it meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.
Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
To outline each and every facet of tourism planning and development would leave one writing an entire book. However, a common contemporary theme in tourism and development, which became fashionable within the past 20 years, is the issue of sustainable tourism1.
Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
Tourism is an ancient phenomenon and existed already in the times of Mesopotamia. However, it has only started to expand significantly post-Cook area of 1880 and it was not until post-war 1950’s that modern mass tourism appeared6. This growth of mass tourism has showed some horrific consequences and made it quite clear that the sustainable planning and development of a tourist area are some of the crucial tourist management principals.
Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
And thus it seems that the main aims of tourism management are to maximize the economic, environmental and socio-cultural benefits of tourism, while minimizing the associated costs. The scope of the following report will by no means be exhaustive due to the limitations of time and word count.
Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
This report will not focus on the day to day activities of tourist managers, but rather address the wider implications of tourism and thus outline the more grand tourism management principals. Coltman identified that tourism affects are divided into three elements; economical, environmental and socio-cultural.
Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
This would imply that tourism management is about marketing, infrastructure, access, seasonality and educational efforts. And this then at least partly seems inline with Heerys’ view.
Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
Other writers believe that the main principles of tourism management focuses on how to influence visitors’ choices of location, access, timing and product provision and to develop local understanding and knowledge of appropriate balance between demand and supply.
Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
that it makes the production of a comprehensive textbook a most difficult task” writes Edmund Heery from Kingston Business School about the book “The Management of International Tourism” from Witt et al. But not only are the areas copious, also will they vary depending on what kind of tourism management is examined; is it the activities of a tourist manager in a large hotel on the Balearic Islands or is it a tourist development planner in the Gambia.
Farvez Basha D 3 years 1 month ago
The subject area of international tourism management is so wide and varied, covering aspects as diverse as economics, accounting, marketing, politics, physical planning, sociology and environmental studies (just to mention a few) that it makes the production of a comprehensive textbook a most difficult task” writes Edmund Heery from Kingston Business School about the book “The Management of International Tourism” from Witt et al. But not only are the areas copious, also will they vary depending