SUSTAINABLE

TOURISM
Don’t destroy what you came to enjoy!
 The Goal Of Sustainable Tourism

• Sustainability plays a vital role in society by

improving long-term quality of life, including future
generations, seeking harmony between economic
growth, social development, and protecting the
environment. (Escoto, et al. 2019)
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The Goal Of Sustainable Tourism

• 1. Economic prosperity;

• 2. Social Equity; and

• 3. Environmental conservation.

• A suitable balance must be established between these three

dimensions to guarantee its long-term sustainability.
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 The Goal Of Sustainable Tourism
• 1. Make optimal use of environmental resources that constitute a crucial element
in tourism development, maintain essential ecological processes, and conserve
natural heritage and biodiversity.
• 2. Respect the host communities' socio-cultural identity, preserve their developed
and living cultural heritage and traditional values and contribute to intercultural
understanding and tolerance.
• 3. Ensure sustainable, long-term economic operations, provide socio-economic
benefits to all equally distributed stakeholders, including secure jobs and income-
earning opportunities and social services to local communities, and contribute to
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 The Goal Of Sustainable Tourism
• Sustainable development of tourism requires participation by all
relevant stakeholders, as well as strong political leadership to ensure
broad participation and build consensus.
• Sustainable tourism is a continuous process and requires constant
monitoring of impacts, where appropriate implementing the required
preventive and/or corrective steps
• Sustainable tourism should ensure a high level of tourist satisfaction
and to provide tourists with meaningful experience, boost awareness
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of issues of sustainability and promote sustainable tourism practices
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• A global vision for reducing extreme poverty, fighting inequality and
injustice and addressing climate change by 2030

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• National poverty reduction
goals
• Fostering entrepreneurship and
small businesses
• Empowering less-favored
groups, especially young
people and women.
Tourism has been well-positioned to promote
economic development at all levels and
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• Promoting cultivation, use, and
selling of local produce in tourist
destinations
• The resulting increase in income in
local communities will contribute
to more sustainable agriculture and
at the same time promoting the
AGRO-TOURISM, FARM
value of tourism experience.
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• The benefits of travel and tourism to
economic development and growth
development may also have an impact
on health and well-being.
• Earnings and tax revenue from tourism
can be reinvested in health care and
education, enhancing maternal health,
reducing infant mortality, and disease
prevention

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• Tourism can provide incentives to invest
in education and vocational training and
assist labor mobility through cross-
border skills, qualifications, and
certification agreements.
• ASEAN MRA

A well-trained and skillful

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• Job creation for women and income-
generating opportunities in small and
large-scale enterprises related to tourism
and hospitality unlocking their potential,
allowing them to become completely
active and lead in every field.
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Tourism can empower women!

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• Effective use of water in the tourism
industry, combined with sufficient
protection, wastewater management,
pollution prevention, and innovation in
technology can be vital to safeguarding
our most important resources.

Water and safety, and hygiene

and sanitation for all!
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• Tourism encourages sound and long-
term investments in renewable energy
sources, minimizing:
• greenhouse gas emissions,
• combat climate change
• contribute to innovative and
creative energy solutions in the
urban, regional and remote areas
Tourism can accelerate the change
toward renewable energy and increase
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• Increased skills and professional
development by giving access to decent
employment opportunities in the tourism
sector

“Designing and implementing

sustainable tourism policies that create
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• Sustainable industrialization, required
for economic growth, sustainability and
innovation.

• The National Governments should

Development of tourism is dependent on
good public and private infrastructure,
and a creative climate.
develop infrastructure and industries,
making them more competitive,
resource-efficient and safe as a way of
attracting visitors and other foreign
investment sources.
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• Tourism may contribute to urban
regeneration and rural growth and
minimize regional imbalances by
creating opportunities for communities
to flourish in their home.

With local communities and all key

stakeholders, tourism can be a powerful tool
for community development and reduction of
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inequalities.
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• Sustainable tourism can advance urban
development and universal accessibility,
encourage declining area regeneration
and conserve cultural and natural
resources, assets that rely on tourism.
• Green infrastructure that includes more
efficient transportation facilities,
reduced air pollution, protection of
A town that is not good to its people is not
heritage sites and open spaces, etc
good for visitors.
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• Tourism can help gear one of our time's
most pressing challenges by lowering
energy consumption and moving to
renewable energy sources, especially in
the transport and housing sector.

Tourism leads to climate change

and is greatly affected by it.
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• The creation of tourism must be part of
Integrated Coastal Zone Management to
help protect and sustain fragile marine
habitats and to serve as a tool for the
promotion of a blue economy
• Sustainable management of fisheries,
aquaculture and tourism

Coastal and maritime tourism

rely on healthy marine
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ecosystems
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• Sustainable tourism can play a
significant role, not only in the
protection and restoration of
biodiversity but also in the respect of
terrestrial ecosystems due to its efforts
to minimize waste and use, conserve
native flora and fauna and its awareness-
raising activities.
Majestic scenery, lush forests, plentiful
biodiversity and natural heritage sites are
also the main reasons visitors visit an
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attraction.
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• To promote tolerance and understanding of
multicultural and interfaith cultures, laying the
foundation for more peaceful societies.
• Sustainable tourism, which benefits and
includes local communities, can also provide a
source of livelihood, reinforce cultural
identities and promote entrepreneurial
activities, thus helping to avoid violence and
conflict in postconflict societies to take root
and sustain the peace.

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• Nature tourism has the potential to improve
private/public collaborations and involve
multiple stakeholders – international, national,
regional, and local
• Public / public collaboration and public /
private collaborations are both an essential and
core basis for the growth of tourism, as is
increased understanding of the role of tourism

Majestic scenery, lush forests, plentiful

biodiversity and natural heritage sites are
also the main reasons visitors visit an
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attraction.
Principles Of Sustainable Tourism
• 1. Enhances the well-being of the communities in which tourism takes
place;
• 2. Supports the protection and enhancement of the natural and cultural
resources of the destination;
• 3. Recognizes the importance of product quality (physical products,
hospitality, and services) and tourist satisfaction as key factors for the
economic success of tourism; and 4. Adopts adequate management
and monitoring measures.
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Requisites Of Sustainable Tourism
• Sustainability simply means being able to continue for an indefinite period of time.
• 1. Is the area safe?
• 2. Are the attractions unique
• 3. Do the attractions have social and cultural value?
• 4. Is it accessible?
• 5. Is there political support?
• 6. Is the community supportive of the project?
• 7. Are there sources of funds for the project?
• 8. Are there available utilities and infrastructure?
• 9. Are there onsite facilities?
• 10. Is the area open for tourism development?
• 11. Is the quality of the area conducive for tourism development?
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History Of Sustainable Tourism

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History Of Sustainable Tourism

1987 1992
1994 2000
1990 Earth Summit in Rio United Nation
Brundtland Report, de Janeiro led to World Travel and
Our Common The release of Agenda 21, Tourism Council initiative
Future, issued by the Rio Declaration on
International launches results in
World Commission Environment and
on Environment Ecotourism Development; voluntary Green establishment
and Development, Society is sustainable Globe of Millennium
development goal was
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agreed to by world
development. nations. program.
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History Of Sustainable Tourism
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2002
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First organizations come United Nations 2012
International Year releases Towards a
of Ecotourism is International
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umbrella to develop Global Green Economy:
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declared. 2003 Conference on Sustainable Tourism
Council Criteria. Davos
Pathways to launches
UNWTO becomes Climate Change Declaration on sustainable Sustainable sustainable
the United Nation’s tourism actions to combat Development and
and Tourism held climate change comes from Poverty Eradication tourism criteria
specialized agency in Djerba, second International (known as the Green
for tourism. Conference on Climate
Economy Report).
for destinations
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