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Qualification Title - BTEC Level 5 HND in Tourism and Hospitality Management

Unit Number & Title - Unit 38 Sustainable Tourism Development Assignment - St Patrick's College, UK

Learning Outcomes -

1. Understand the rationale for planning in the travel and tourism industry.

2. Understand different approaches to tourism planning and development.

3. Understand the need for planning for sustainable tourism.

4. Understand current issues related to tourism development planning.

5. Understand the socio cultural, environmental and economic impacts of tourism in developing countries and emerging destinations.

Sustainable Tourism Development Portfolio Assessment - Pre-Conference Briefing Paper

Be sure to discuss the following issues:

1. Who are the tourism stakeholders in the destinations? How do the different stakeholders benefit from the planning of tourism development?

2. Are there Public/Private Sector Partnerships identified in the development of tourism in these countries? How do they work? What are the advantages and disadvantages of such partnerships?

3. Briefly examine the key steps of the tourism development process at the local authority level and the national level.

4. How significant are interactive planning systems in the tourism development process?

5. There are both positive and negative impacts of tourism. Identify as many as you can in both countries (remember to consider all three- economic, socio/cultural and environmental). What methods may be used to measure those impacts? Comment on their effectiveness.

6. Examine issues of conflict of interest among the stakeholders. How would they get resolved?

7. Sustainability also means achieving a balance. What would happen if they were not balanced in a destination? What is meant by the terms 'carrying capacity', and 'equilibrium' in regard to supply and demand?

8. Enclave Tourism is practiced in Mauritius and other places. What are the moral and ethical issues of developing and promoting this type of tourism?

9. Using all that you have discussed and read over the last few weeks as well as your research on the two destinations,

- Briefly examine the factors that could prevent or hinder sustainable tourism development in those destinations.

- Compare current issues associated with tourism development in the two countries.

Reflect on:

1) What sustainability in tourism development means to you. (A definition of 'Sustainable Tourism' is a good start.)

2) What is good about it. Why would it be a worthwhile pursuit.

3) The various stages involved in the planning of a sustainable tourism development project.

In your reflection, make recommendations of what could be done for the future development of tourism in each one of the two destinations (Indonesia and Mauritius).