Introduction
Tourism development is occurring throughout the world. In this unit we will learn about the organisations involved, which sectors they belong to and the roles they play in enabling the development of tourism in an area. Furthermore, we will learn about aims and objectives of tourism development throughout the world and the positive and negative impacts of tourism development in the UK and overseas and also the features and appeal of worldwide tourism-generating regions.
For this unit, we will investigate why tourism development needs to be managed effectively to ensure long-term sustainability.
In the exam, we need to demonstrate:
- understanding and critical analysis of recent ideas, methods and approaches to the impacts caused by tourism development
- ability to deal with complex situations and problems relating to the impacts of tourism development
- ability to evaluate the broader issues of sustainable tourism development by the study of stimulus material provided in the examination.
For this unit, we will investigate why tourism development needs to be managed effectively to ensure long-term sustainability.
In the exam, we need to demonstrate:
- understanding and critical analysis of recent ideas, methods and approaches to the impacts caused by tourism development
- ability to deal with complex situations and problems relating to the impacts of tourism development
- ability to evaluate the broader issues of sustainable tourism development by the study of stimulus material provided in the examination.
Key Areas For The Exam
1. Agents of Tourism Development
Tourism development occurs for many reasons and is carried out by a wide variety of commercial and non-commercial organisations which belong to the: Public, Private and Voluntary sectors.These organisations may work in partnership
or may have conflicting objectives.For example, national and local tourist boards often work together with commercial providers to promote a destination to increase visitor numbers and income. On the other hand, land in a tourism development area may be valuable to the landowner, to a property development company wanting to build a hotel on the land or to a community group wanting the land for local community use.
Each of these agents of tourism development has a different objective, and the values and attitudes of these agents
differ or may conflict.
You need to show that you understand how these can affect not only the development of tourism, but also the aims of the agents.
You need to know how the following types of organisations and sectors are involved in the tourism development process and their reasons for becoming involved:
Private-sector enterprises, examples include:
- hotel developers,
- landowners;
- development companies;
- consultancies;
- sponsors;
- leisure organisations;
- retail;
- entertainment organisations;
Public-sector organisations, examples include:
- local authorities;
- national governments;
- national and regional tourist boards, both in the UK and overseas;
- Tourist Information Centres;
- EnglishHeritage;
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation);
Voluntary-sector bodies, examples include:
- community groups;
- pressure groups;
- conservation organisations;
- National Trust;
- TourismConcern;
- World Wildlife Fund.
For the exam, it is important that you are able to understand the aims and objectives of the different sectors and of the different organisations within these sectors.
You need to understand about the agents of tourism development in given case studies.
You need to apply skills inproblem solving to demonstrate the approaches, concepts and principles of various agents of tourism development through evaluating case studies and scenarios.
Tourism development occurs for many reasons and is carried out by a wide variety of commercial and non-commercial organisations which belong to the: Public, Private and Voluntary sectors.These organisations may work in partnership
or may have conflicting objectives.For example, national and local tourist boards often work together with commercial providers to promote a destination to increase visitor numbers and income. On the other hand, land in a tourism development area may be valuable to the landowner, to a property development company wanting to build a hotel on the land or to a community group wanting the land for local community use.
Each of these agents of tourism development has a different objective, and the values and attitudes of these agents
differ or may conflict.
You need to show that you understand how these can affect not only the development of tourism, but also the aims of the agents.
You need to know how the following types of organisations and sectors are involved in the tourism development process and their reasons for becoming involved:
Private-sector enterprises, examples include:
- hotel developers,
- landowners;
- development companies;
- consultancies;
- sponsors;
- leisure organisations;
- retail;
- entertainment organisations;
Public-sector organisations, examples include:
- local authorities;
- national governments;
- national and regional tourist boards, both in the UK and overseas;
- Tourist Information Centres;
- EnglishHeritage;
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation);
Voluntary-sector bodies, examples include:
- community groups;
- pressure groups;
- conservation organisations;
- National Trust;
- TourismConcern;
- World Wildlife Fund.
For the exam, it is important that you are able to understand the aims and objectives of the different sectors and of the different organisations within these sectors.
You need to understand about the agents of tourism development in given case studies.
You need to apply skills inproblem solving to demonstrate the approaches, concepts and principles of various agents of tourism development through evaluating case studies and scenarios.