Sustainable Development and Tourism Destination Management of Hot Springs Hotels in Taiwan

Research Paper | What destination competitiveness should a hot springs hotel in Taiwan have for sustainable development? | | | | Submitted by: Chun-Hung, Yu (John) Student No.: 10137238 Submitted Date: Week12 (18/10/2010) Lecturer: Dr Julie Nyanjom Unit Code: Hospitality Enterprise MBA 5701 Monday: 13:30~16:30 | | |

Abstract:
Recently, more and more hot springs hotels in Taiwan have been built around attractions in order to take advantage of the business opportunity derived from attractions. Nevertheless, under a highly competitive environment, retaining competitive advantages and further developing sustainably is an essential but challenging lesson for hot springs hotels. This paper seeks to find out what the most considerable competitiveness a Taiwanese hot springs hotel should own so as to achieve the aim of sustainable development. Moreover, the concepts of the hot springs tourism in Taiwan, destination competitiveness, tourist satisfaction and sustainable development are discussed in the article. The research method used here is a comprehensive analysis with the secondary data sourced from a variety of research papers about destination competitiveness. In this paper, all study factors for sustainable development are derived from three aspects, which are tourism destination resources and attractions, tourist destination environments and tourist destination strategies. The result is expected to find out not only the significance of destination competitiveness for the hot springs tourism sector but also the determinants that are able to benefit the sustainable development. Overall, the safety and security of hot springs bathing is the most considerable issue for both hotels and customers. Additionally, the government should set effective policies and plans to manage the development of hot springs resources so as to assist the hot springs industry to have an

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