Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
Sustainable Tourism
Areas to be covered
1. Definition of key terms
2. Components of sustainable tourism
3. Objectives of sustainable tourism
4. Role of Tour Guiding in Sustainable Tourism
5. Measures to enforce tour guides o contribute
sustainable tourism
6. Interpretation and sustainable tourism
Objectives of sustainable
tourism
Economic viability: to ensure the viability and
competitiveness of tourism enterprises so that they are
able to continue to prosper and deliver benefits in the
long term.
Local prosperity: to maximize the contribution of
tourism to the prosperity of the host destination,
including the proportion of visitor spending that is
retained locally.
Employment quality: to strengthen the number and
quality of local jobs created and supported by tourism,
including the level of pay, conditions of service and
Provide guidelines, rules and regulations of the site/ sites dos and
donts
Make tourists comply with whatever restrictions imposed by the
attraction sites
Inspire tourists to become supporters of conservation
Guides behavior and attitude send an important message to
tourists and local people
Since guides visit tourist sites frequently, can be in position to
notice and report negative impacts tourists make to the
site/community
Can also do monitoring implemented measures to conserve
resources by observing changes at the sites
Can link sites administration and local people about conservation
issues and other issues pertaining impacts of tourism