TOURISM 3.1: SUST. DEV THRU TOURISM DEV.

SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEV.

• Achieved when sustainability principles are applied to SEE, maintaining a balance, ensuring long-term sust. (no one aspect is neglected)

• Ensures present and future needs are met

ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY

1. (Continual provision of) Employment and income

→ Tourism industry needs to ensure locals have stable employment and income

→ Achieved through skills training:

→ Seasoned employees get more skills, find employment during off-peak tourist seasons

→Career progression and income growth for locals in long-term

2. Provision of social services (raising SOL)

Health

→ tourism revenue enables government to build more clinics for local communities

→ increased healthcare and medical resources allows locals to recover faster when sick

→doesn’t stop their work productivity, maintaining their income & can receive timely treatment when sick = raised SOL (ESPECIALLY FOR THE DISADVANTAGED)

Education

→ tourism revenue enables government to build more schools

→increased oppt. for education allowing better job prospects

→locals can find better employment = more stable income

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

1. Respect authenticity of local communities and traditions

→ Respect to locals = positive interactions b/w tourists and locals

→Traditions become more meaningful for tourists and locals, locals preserve traditions more

→ tour guides advise tourists on how to be respectful , local communities develop showcasing of traditional practices sensitively (TO AVOID CONFLICT)

2. (Contribute to) Intercultural Understanding tolerance and appreciation (UTA)

→ Positive interactions = enhance UTA b/w tourist and local comm. cultures

→Traditions become more meaningful for tourists and locals, locals preserve traditions more

→Ensures continuity of tradition + attract more tourists

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

1. Maintaining essential ecological processes

→Ecological processes = biological, physical and chemical processes that sustain ecosystems

→Ensures that Ecosystem services (CRSP) thrive, enabling present and future needs to be met (supply of natural resources and regulation of water and air quality)

• Stakeholders collaborate to reduce deforestation, ensures continuity of photosynthesis, sustaining ecosystem services

2. Conserve natural heritage and biodiversity

→Establish national parks to protect & preserve national heritage sites

→Protects endangered species from illegal poaching, allow population recovery

→Gov. can limit tourist numbers, ensuring that carrying capacity does not exceed