RESORT PLANING

AND DEVELOPMENT
CONTENTS

• Introduction to resort and its

element.
• Resort planning and
development.
• Resort planning process.
• Stages in resort development.
• Resort planning principles.
RESORT MANAGEMENT
• Definition of RESORT:

Any place or places with pleasant

environment and atmosphere conducive to
comfort, healthful relaxation and rest, offering
food, sleeping accomodation and recreational
facilities to the public for a fee (definition per
DOT Rules on Accreditation)
RESORT MANAGEMENT
• ELEMENT OF A RESORT:

1. Recreational facilities that draw guests to

the facility
2. Housing and Food & Beverage services
that cater to people away from home
3. Activities to occupy guests during their
stay
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• RESORT PLANING:

The modern concept of a resort is that

planned as an integrated development
with consideration given to its
compatibility with the natural
environment and possible benefits to
local communities.
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• RESORT PLANING:
Economic feasibility analysis:
Analysis of the economic costs and
benefits of a project to the entire area,
region or country. A project may
generate overall positive economic
benefits by attracting tourists to the
area, but not make a profit in itself.
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• RESORT PLANING:
Financial feasibility analysis:
The financial rate of return and
profitability of a project based only on
its own costs and revenues.
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• RESORT PLANNING PROCESS:
1. First, market and product assessment
(referring especially to tourist
attractions) is conducted, the resort
development objectives, type and size
determined in preliminary form, the site
selected, and conceptual planning and
prefeasibility analysis carried out.
RESORT MANAGEMENT
• RESORT PLANNING PROCESS:
This analysis feeds into more specific
determination of facility and land use
requirements and infrastructure
needs, the regional relationships
including access to the site and
regional integration, and the
environmental and carrying capacity
analysis and considerations of
community relationships.
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• RESORT PLANNING PROCESS:
2. Then the resort and
regional/community relationships plan
is prepared, with phasing of
development and evaluated
environmentally and economically as a
basis for deciding on the final plan.
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3. A specific environmental and social
impact analysis must be conducted of
the plan to ensure that the resort will
not result in undue environmentally
and economically as a basis for deciding
on the final plan.
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4. Then a final-economic and financial
feasibility analysis is carried out to
make certain that the resort will be
economically viable and produce an
acceptable financial rate of return. The
results of this analysis may also require
modifications to the plan.
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5. Finally, the implementation programme

is prepared and construction of the first
phase begins.
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• OTHER IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS
1. Successful resorts eventually tends to
overdevelop.
2. Leads to environmental problems &
declining resort popularity.
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• OTHER IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS
3. Local communities to be involved in
key stage of resort planning process.
4. This will improve the employment,
operation of commercial facilities, and
improved community infrastructure and
facilities.
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• OTHER IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS
5. Resorts should have controlled access
and an efficient but not high-speed road
network.
6. Emphasis should be on pedestrians in
the resort and
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• OTHER IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS
7. In larger resorts, use of non-polluting
vehicles such as small battery operated
buses to provide general transport
within the resort grounds.
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• OTHER IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS
8. Public access to the resort should be
allowed on a controlled basis including
to the main attraction features such as
beaches and historic places.
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• OTHER IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS
9. Conservation-oriented infrastructure
techniques should be applied, such as
treatment and recycling of sewage
effluent for use in landscape irrigation
and use of solar energy for water
heating and natural ventilation
substituting air conditioning air
conditioning
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• OTHER IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS
10. If sufficient housing for the resort
employees is not already available in
nearby communities, then housing will
need to be developed neat the resort.
 Market & Product Assessment of
Area

Determination of Objectives, Type & Size of Resort, including

General Environmental Assessment of Area

Resort Site
Selection
Resort Concept & Prefeasibility Analysis (with
feedback to above steps, project terminated if
determined infeasible)

Determination of Regional Environmental &

Facility & Land Relationships Carrying Capacity
Use Analysis
Requirements

Community
Determination of Access to Relationships
Infrastructure Regional
Requirements Integration
Formulation of Regional Relationships & Resort Land Use Plan with
Phasing of Development (alternative & final plans)

Specific Environmental & Social Assessment

(with feedback to plan formulation)

Implementation Program

First Stage Development

Plan Retirement of Later Phases

Implementation of Later Phases

Factors to Consider in
resort development
• Resort development involves a
difficult trade-off between benefits
and unfavorable impacts on the ff.
aspects:
1. Economic
2. Social
3. Environmental
A. Economic Considerations in
ResoRt Dev’t.
Variables that Determine
Profitability

1. Capacity
• The more facilities & guests, the higher
the profit
• However, capacity is limited by Physical
limitations and Ecological limitations
A. Economic Considerations
in ResoRt Dev’t.
2. Length of the Season
• Is the season long enough to earn profit?

3. Capital Investment
• Heavy costs in fixed assets for land,
building and recreational facilities
• Long payback period
B. Social Considerations in
ResoRt Dev’t.
• It is imperative for a resort to develop &
maintain good relations with the local
community
• They are the main source of labor
• They are local customers
• They provide community services
B. Social Considerations in
ResoRt Dev’t.
• The community’s peace & order and general
attitude towards tourism and tourists has
great impact on tourism movement to the
resort
• Resort development would have positive &
negative social changes
B. Social Considerations in
ResoRt Dev’t.
1. Employment

• Communities welcome the social benefit

of job creation in construction &
operations
• However, it has employment-related
social problems:
o Established industries may be
disrupted if they lose good
employees who transfer to the
resort
B. Social Considerations in
ResoRt Dev’t.
o Communities may resent hiring
of outsiders for better paying
positions

o For local community members

working in the resort, exposure
to the “high” lifestyle of resorts
may cause dissatisfaction w/ his
lifestyle & develop a false sense
of values anchored on material
acquisitions & creature comforts
B. Social Considerations in
ResoRt Dev’t.
2. Recreational development

• Residents may resent and resist resort

dev’t. if it they don’t have access & are
hindered from leisure activities they used to
enjoy
B. Social Considerations in
ResoRt Dev’t.
3. Infrastructure requirements &
demands

• The resort would compete with local

community for use of water, energy,
transportation & communication resources
B. Social Considerations in
ResoRt Dev’t.
4. Lifestyle changes
• More wives may take on financial
obligations than their husbands, disrupting
traditional social norms
• Residents exposed to tourists’ lifestyles
become inclined to spend more specially on
imported goods
B. Social Considerations in
ResoRt Dev’t.
• Possible increases in prostitution, drug
addiction & other crimes as a result of
interaction with tourists

5. Congestion
• Human traffic
• Vehicular traffic
C. Environmental
ConsiDeRations in ResoRt Dev’t.
1. Pollution
• From fertilizers, pesticides, exhaust
fumes, solid wastes & sewage
2. Conservation
• Resort dev’t. may damage the flora &
fauna
C. Environmental
ConsiDeRations in ResoRt Dev’t.
1. Aesthetic impact

• Resort development may alter the view &

beauty of the natural landscape
STAGES IN RESORT
DEVELOPMENT
1. Feasibility Analysis & Planning

• Involves forecasting of demand, market

analysis, examination of site
characteristics and determination of
financial feasibility
STAGES IN RESORT
DEVELOPMENT
2. Construction
3. Operations/Management
RESORT PLANNING
PRINCIPLES
Fundamental Concepts
• Resort Environment
• Give the resort a distinctive image and
character that provides a contrast to the
tourist’s home environment
• Environmental Orientation
• Allow tourist appreciation of nature at
environmentally sustainable manner
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PRINCIPLES
• Community Orientation

• Allow tourist interaction with

local residents and encourage
learning of local culture
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PRINCIPLES
Multi-discplinary team approach

• Resort marketing analysts

• Land use and site planners
• Economic & Financial feasibility
analysts
• Transportation & other infrastructure
engineers
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PRINCIPLES
• Hotel architects & resort landscapers
• Environmental specialists
• Sociologists
• Specialists on the activity offered (such
as dive instructors for a dive resort)