Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Tourism and Sustainable Development

Tourism and Sustainable Development
Introduction
The Tourism industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the global market economy, the developing countries have been attempting to gain on tourism industry in an effort to try and increase their foreign investment together with financial reserves to improve their economy. Whereas accepting that the unrestrained increase of tourism industry may lead in grim environmental and also social issues, the UN has asserted that these negative outcomes may be managed and decreased. Observing that “tourism needs to be more sustainable”, World Tourism Organization (2007). In the recent past the issue of sustainable tourism has continued to attract more attention. The question is being debated is whether the tourism industry thus, can be driven towards being sustainable in the present prevailing global and political regimes which emphasizes the competition and globalization in the industry.

To address this subject: Tourism and Sustainable Development, the study paper will carry on, along the following field: tourism will be explained for reasons of theoretical clarity; importance of tourism will be highlighted, types of tourism will be stated and sustainable tourism the centre of the paper, will be discussed at length; and lastly “the way forward” in terms of a conclusion will be provided

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