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Examples are:
Gastronomic
Surfing circuit
• Tourism Corridor
A tourism corridor refers to a route defined by a theme spanning several countries or even
continents. The inca corridor in south America covers chile, bolivia, peru and Ecuador. Argentina and
Colombia.
• Northern Philippines
1. batanes Cagayan coast and bayuban islands
2. laoag vigan (laoag pagudpud vigan)
• Central Philippines
1. bico
2. marinduque-Mindoro-romblon
• Southern Philippines
1. surigao-dinagat island
2. agusan river basin
• Tourism Destination
The UNWTO (2004) defines a tourism destination as a physical space in which
a visitor spends at least one overnight.
Tourism characteristic
and their planning implications
Tourism is a composite product. It is comprised of goods and services that are
provided by entities in the tourism value chain.
Thus, one of the rationales for tourism planning is to identify, organize, and
integrated entities along the tourism value chain t ensure the delivery of consistency
high quality tourist experience.
Tourist destination are intangible, which means that potential visitors cannot
try them prior to purchase of tickets, rooms, or tour package.
Tourism is very capital intensive, particularly at the incipient stage of
development when a lot of money is required to build infrastructure, facilities and
human expertise.
Tourism’s main assets are nature and culture.
Building heights
Architectural designs
Density limits
Waste management
Tourism is subject to external forces that are largely uncontrollable, such as the
political situation, weather, nature calamities, currency fluctuations, and international
relations.
Tourism exerts impacts on the environment, culture and conomy of
destinations.
Tourism is a highly dynamic and competitive industry.
The Benefits of Tourism planning
Good planning offers a number of benefits not just to the destination but also to
individual planners themselves such as new learnings avoidance of past mistakes and
networking.
First as a mental exercise planning force us to focus on the task at hand and to think
critically.
Planning prevents waste of time, money, and effort.
More over planning helps avoid mistakes that can lead to irreparable damage to destinatioms.
Factors to consider for effective tourism planning
and development
• Availability and quality of tourism relevant data
• Target market
2. Involvement
• The community begins to adapt to tourism and may even begin to
advertise.
3.Development
• Additional tourism infrastructure may be present.
4. Consolidation
• Growth rate in tourist arrivals declines, although numbers are still
increasing
5. Stagnation
• The number of tourist reaches or exceeds the carrying capacity and
environmental, social, and economic problems are experienced.
6. Decline or Rejuvenation
• Decline may ensue if the tourist market continues to wane and the resort is
not able to compete with newer attractions.
Exploration and Involvement Stages Development Stage