What is Sustainable Tourism?
The Polish, Spanish and UK partners have all asked their VET students and trainees this question.
The Polish, Spanish and UK partners have all asked their VET students and trainees this question.
The Polish students were asked to produce a powerpoint presentation in their Polish language and then translate it into English. Foreign language skills are really important for students, trainees and staff in the tourism sector.
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Powerpoint presentations introducing Tourism and Sustainable Tourism was presented to the 20 Travel and Tourism VET students at New College Stamford.
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Key Questions
Key Questions to tourism operators and others can start to explore - What is sustainable tourism?
To ask the staff of tourism enterprises and agencies.
1) How is the area promoted as responsible tourism? What is the promotional material?
2) What are the tourism development objectives for the destination?
6) What are the conflicts between different agents of tourism development?
7) How are these conflicts being resolved? If not, How could they be resolved in future?
8) How responsible is the tourism at the destination, by assessing the existing strategies?
10) How can the tourism be developed to create lasting benefits for the local community and the environment?
Key Questions to tourism operators and others can start to explore - What is sustainable tourism?
To ask the staff of tourism enterprises and agencies.
1) How is the area promoted as responsible tourism? What is the promotional material?
2) What are the tourism development objectives for the destination?
- Economic
- Social
- Environmental
- Political
- Promotion and marketing
- Transport management
- Energy management
- Waste management
- Food and drink
- Accommodation
- Economic
- Social
- Environmental
- Political
6) What are the conflicts between different agents of tourism development?
7) How are these conflicts being resolved? If not, How could they be resolved in future?
8) How responsible is the tourism at the destination, by assessing the existing strategies?
- Economic, Social, Environmental and Political
- Views of different agents
10) How can the tourism be developed to create lasting benefits for the local community and the environment?
Characteristics of sustainable tourism
We defined and characterised sustainable tourism as in the presentation on the foot of the homepage of http://learnsustainabletourism.weebly.com. Sustainable tourism is tourism that is based on the principles of sustainable development. It is tourism that minimizes the costs and maximizes the benefits of tourism for natural environments and local communities, and can be carried out indefinitely without harming the resources on which it depends. The term should be used to refer to a condition of tourism, not a type of tourism. Well-managed high-volume tourism can, and ought to be, just as sustainable as small-scale, dispersed special interest tourism.
‘Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities.’
World Tourism Organisation .
Sustainable tourism (as defined by Lonely Planet) can be more-or-less defined as ethical or responsible travel that takes into consideration the ‘triple bottom line’ issues of:
We defined and characterised sustainable tourism as in the presentation on the foot of the homepage of http://learnsustainabletourism.weebly.com. Sustainable tourism is tourism that is based on the principles of sustainable development. It is tourism that minimizes the costs and maximizes the benefits of tourism for natural environments and local communities, and can be carried out indefinitely without harming the resources on which it depends. The term should be used to refer to a condition of tourism, not a type of tourism. Well-managed high-volume tourism can, and ought to be, just as sustainable as small-scale, dispersed special interest tourism.
‘Tourism that takes full account of its current and future economic, social and environmental impacts, addressing the needs of visitors, the industry, the environment and host communities.’
World Tourism Organisation .
Sustainable tourism (as defined by Lonely Planet) can be more-or-less defined as ethical or responsible travel that takes into consideration the ‘triple bottom line’ issues of:
- Planet - Environment: travel and tourism that minimises negative environmental impacts and, where possible, makes positive contributions to the conservation of biodiversity, wilderness, natural and human heritage.
- People - Social/Cultural: travel that respects culture and traditions and fosters authentic interaction and greater understanding between travellers and hosts.
- Profit - Economic: travel that has financial benefits for the host community and operates on the principles of fair trade.