Critically examine the need for tourism policy and planning
TITLE OF ASSIGNMENT…… Critically examine the need for tourism policy and planning. Provide examples from tourist destinations to illustrate your points. ……………………………………………
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Critically examine the need for tourism policy and planning. Provide examples from tourist destinations to illustrate your points.
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The tourism sector has become in the last century one of the most prolific industries in the whole world. Much of the success of this industry is partly because of the major improvements in transport, technology, quality of services and most important of all, the variety on offer. All these factors are part of the different Tourism Policy’s and Planning implemented by different governments and countries that have contributed to the growth of this sector. In this essay I will analyse how these components are relevant towards policy and planning in the tourism sector and how this particular industry deals with the modernisation of society and its new trends. However an overview of how tourist destinations are negatively affected by planning and policy will also be given. Also examples will be used throughout the essay to emphasize the different impacts caused by tourism policy’s and planning.
A clear distinction must be made between both tourism planning and policies. Both are extremely important for the development of tourism, however they are very different to each other and encompass a variety of different aspects. Tourism policy is referred as “A set of regulations, rules, guidelines, directives, and development/ promotion objectives and strategies that provide a framework within which the collective and individual decisions directly affecting tourism development and the daily activities within a destination are taken. (1) This definition underlines the
Aspects that tourism policy is involved with. A Tourism policy is usually
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Critically examine the need for tourism policy and planning. Provide examples from tourist destinations to illustrate your points.
(2024 words)
The tourism sector has become in the last century one of the most prolific industries in the whole world. Much of the success of this industry is partly because of the major improvements in transport, technology, quality of services and most important of all, the variety on offer. All these factors are part of the different Tourism Policy’s and Planning implemented by different governments and countries that have contributed to the growth of this sector. In this essay I will analyse how these components are relevant towards policy and planning in the tourism sector and how this particular industry deals with the modernisation of society and its new trends. However an overview of how tourist destinations are negatively affected by planning and policy will also be given. Also examples will be used throughout the essay to emphasize the different impacts caused by tourism policy’s and planning.
A clear distinction must be made between both tourism planning and policies. Both are extremely important for the development of tourism, however they are very different to each other and encompass a variety of different aspects. Tourism policy is referred as “A set of regulations, rules, guidelines, directives, and development/ promotion objectives and strategies that provide a framework within which the collective and individual decisions directly affecting tourism development and the daily activities within a destination are taken. (1) This definition underlines the
Aspects that tourism policy is involved with. A Tourism policy is usually
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