TOUR219 Exam QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
Sustainable Tourism
"tourism which is in such a form which can maintain its vitality in an area for an indefinite
period of time"
Balances social, environmental and economic
Why destination managers need indicators
- better decision making
- identify emerging issues
- monitor impacts
- performance assessment
Sustainable tourism indicators
Quantitative: raw data, ratios and %
Qualitative:
--> category indicies: graded lists
--> Normative indicators: existence e.g. of a tourism plan
--> Nominal indicators: yes/no
--> opinion based indicators: level of satisfaction
Critiques of sustainable development
- oxymoron
- definitions are fuzzy
- hard to predict needs of future generations
- greenwashing
- hard to spread benefits
Regenerative tourism
, aims not just to do less harm but to go on and restore the harm already done (do more
good)
--> systems change, mindset/paradigm shift
--> extractive economy (using the earth as a resource) to a regenerative economy
(working with nature)
Challenges of regenerative tourism
- multiple, cumulative, interconnected effects
- differing, fluid scales of governance
- no baseline indicators to track from
- conceptual and physical issue (is it possible?)
Destination management
Destination management refers to the coordinated management of all elements that
make up a destination and visitors experience.
3 approaches to DM:
1. visitor experience
2. marketing and promotion
3. resource management
TALC:
1. exploration: few visitors, not many facilities
2. involvement: locals start providing facilities, more visitors
3. development: large companies start building, many more visitors
4. consolidation: numbers start to level off
5. stagnation: numbers have peaked, facilities are no longer appealing
6. Rejuvination or Decline
Rejuvination: new 'must see' facilities are built, visiotrs start to rise again
Decline: fewer visitors come, facilities fail to attract, economy suffers,
RDS
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
Sustainable Tourism
"tourism which is in such a form which can maintain its vitality in an area for an indefinite
period of time"
Balances social, environmental and economic
Why destination managers need indicators
- better decision making
- identify emerging issues
- monitor impacts
- performance assessment
Sustainable tourism indicators
Quantitative: raw data, ratios and %
Qualitative:
--> category indicies: graded lists
--> Normative indicators: existence e.g. of a tourism plan
--> Nominal indicators: yes/no
--> opinion based indicators: level of satisfaction
Critiques of sustainable development
- oxymoron
- definitions are fuzzy
- hard to predict needs of future generations
- greenwashing
- hard to spread benefits
Regenerative tourism
, aims not just to do less harm but to go on and restore the harm already done (do more
good)
--> systems change, mindset/paradigm shift
--> extractive economy (using the earth as a resource) to a regenerative economy
(working with nature)
Challenges of regenerative tourism
- multiple, cumulative, interconnected effects
- differing, fluid scales of governance
- no baseline indicators to track from
- conceptual and physical issue (is it possible?)
Destination management
Destination management refers to the coordinated management of all elements that
make up a destination and visitors experience.
3 approaches to DM:
1. visitor experience
2. marketing and promotion
3. resource management
TALC:
1. exploration: few visitors, not many facilities
2. involvement: locals start providing facilities, more visitors
3. development: large companies start building, many more visitors
4. consolidation: numbers start to level off
5. stagnation: numbers have peaked, facilities are no longer appealing
6. Rejuvination or Decline
Rejuvination: new 'must see' facilities are built, visiotrs start to rise again
Decline: fewer visitors come, facilities fail to attract, economy suffers,
RDS
