Dejanay martell

12s
Tourism

Please complete and upload the answers to the following questions:

1. Describe TWO barriers to implementing sustainable tourism in a Caribbean
destination. (6marks)

Political will- Political stability and safety are prerequisites for tourism; even the mere threat
of events such as civil unrest and terrorism can cause tourists to rethink their decision to visit
a destination. The impact of political instability on a destination's tourism sector is both
immediate and potentially long-lasting.
Economic priority over social and environmental concerns. This barrier is related strongly to
political governance’s short term focus and many other barriers arise out of this. A focus on
short term objectives creates a negative feedback loop with economic priority because with
short political terms attention is focused on job creation and development for growth that
should yield immediate results instead of an equal priority with environmental and social
concerns.

2. Suggest THREE strategies that can be used to mitigate against the effects of the
overreliance of Caribbean economies on tourism.

Three strategies that can be used to mitigate against the effects of the overreliance of
Caribbean economies on tourism are techniques such as employing only local people,
limiting the number of all-inclusive hotels and encouraging the purchasing of local products
and services.

3. Using appropriate examples, discuss THREE tools which can be used to monitor the
progress of sustainable tourism development.

Three tool that can be used to monitor the progress of sustainable tourism is the Social
sustainability, the rise of employment rate of local residents indicate that tourism
positively contribute in SDG. Measuring water and energy consumption at tourist
accommodation over period of time per tourist, any decrease in these numbers is an
indication for improvements in sustainable tourism.

4. Discuss THREE challenges that impact the implementation of sustainable tourism in

businesses and destinations.
Seasonality effects on many aspects of supply-side behaviour including marketing,
labour market (nature and quality of job, skill availability, sustainability of
employment, etc.), business finance, shareholder’s management and all the aspects of
operation.

Local community is the strength of sustainable tourism, but without proper plan and
strategy, this opportunity can turn in threat. We must be careful while involving
community to avoid inequality in our decision.

Ensuring long equal income distribution A large number of sustainable activities takes
in government-controlled protected areas like national parks, wildlife conservation
area and so on. And as sustainable tourism involves local community, proper
distribution of income is very important. As often it happens elite groups of people
from community are usually the beneficiary, so fair distribution of income is crucial
challenge of sustainable tourism.