Tourism infrastructure and development

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Tour­ism infra­struc­ture and devel­op­ment are essen­tial com­pon­ents in the growth of the tour­ism industry.

The infra­struc­ture that sup­ports tour­ism encom­passes a wide range of facil­it­ies and ser­vices, includ­ing trans­port­a­tion, accom­mod­a­tions, attrac­tions, and amen­it­ies such as res­taur­ants, shops, and recre­ation­al activ­it­ies. These ele­ments must be developed in a sus­tain­able man­ner to ensure the long-term viab­il­ity of the industry.

Tour­ism devel­op­ment is a com­plex pro­cess that involves a wide range of stake­hold­ers, includ­ing gov­ern­ment agen­cies, private sec­tor entit­ies, and loc­al communities.

One of the primary chal­lenges in tour­ism devel­op­ment is ensur­ing that infra­struc­ture and tour­ism activ­it­ies are developed in a man­ner that is sus­tain­able and pre­serves the reas­ons why people want to vis­it in the first place, includ­ing the nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age of the des­tin­a­tion. This involves care­ful plan­ning and man­age­ment to min­im­ise neg­at­ive impacts on the envir­on­ment and soci­ety, while max­im­ising the pos­it­ive eco­nom­ic and social bene­fits for the loc­al communities.

The devel­op­ment of tour­ism infra­struc­ture can have sig­ni­fic­ant eco­nom­ic bene­fits for the des­tin­a­tion. It can cre­ate new jobs and oppor­tun­it­ies for loc­al busi­nesses, gen­er­ate rev­en­ue for the gov­ern­ment, and stim­u­late eco­nom­ic growth in the region. How­ever, these bene­fits must be bal­anced against the poten­tial neg­at­ive impacts on the envir­on­ment and the loc­al com­munity; the extent to which devel­op­ment under­mines the attract­ive­ness of the destination.

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Climate change & air travel: Why we have a responsibility to tourism-dependent countries

August 7, 2019

Passenger jet taking off at dusk with a silhouetted man watching it leave

Writ­ing for The Con­ver­sa­tion, Tom Baum of the Uni­ver­sity of Strath­clyde dis­cusses the respons­ib­il­ity borne by rich-world nations — and indi­vidu­al trav­el­lers — for poor coun­tries’ “neo-colo­n­i­al depend­ence” on tour­ism and air travel. Few would deny the threat to our plan­et posed by cli­mate change, or the role that humans have played in the degrad­a­tion of the nat­ur­al environment. […]

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The cause of overtourism & how tourism can avoid choking on success

February 19, 2019
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Tourist go home messages are getting louder and more frequent as overtourism becomes a problem too big to ignore. Image by Duncan Hull (CC BY 2.0) via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/dullhunk/29569046192

World Tour­ism Asso­ci­ation for Cul­ture & Her­it­age (WTACH) Pres­id­ent & CEO Chris Flynn weighs in on the over­tour­ism dis­cus­sion in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. Mr Flynn iden­ti­fies the cause of over­tour­ism and how the tour­ism industry might avoid more of it. We are hear­ing more and more about “over­tour­ism” and the neg­at­ive impact it is having […]

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Goodbye freeloading, hello free thinking; the Travel Foundation asks “Who pays?”

May 26, 2018
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Little Venice quay flooded with tourists

When you next go on vaca­tion, who will pay? It’s a simple ques­tion and you may think the answer is obvi­ous: you, the cus­tom­er. But are trav­el­lers cov­er­ing their costs? Experts at a roundtable event organ­ised by Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity were asked that ques­tion and they answered with a resound­ing “no”. All those around the table — aca­dem­ics and representatives […]

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China pledges another three years of ‘toilet revolution’ to boost tourism

November 20, 2017

China pledges another three years of 'toilet revolution' to boost tourism

China announced on Sunday plans to build and upgrade 64,000 pub­lic toi­lets between 2018 to 2020 as part of its “toi­let revolu­tion” aimed at boost­ing tour­ism and lift­ing the sec­tor’s con­tri­bu­tion to eco­nom­ic growth. China has been keen to devel­op and expand ser­vices indus­tries to move away from debt-fueled and invest­­ment-driv­en growth, while off­set­ing the […]

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Nigeria tourism’s squandered opportunities

October 9, 2017
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Nigeria tourism perhaps shoud be red-faced like this rainbow agama

In an op-ed for This Day, Kunle Aderinok­un (Asso­ci­ate Edit­or) and Demola Ojo (Edit­or and travel writer) write about the reas­ons tour­ism in the world’s sev­enth most pop­u­lous nation could be, should be an eco­nom­ic gold­mine. While the excerpt below focuses on Niger­ia tour­ism, the writers also dis­cuss squandered oppor­tun­it­ies in agri­cul­ture, oil, min­ing, and […]

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Rural tourism: Delighting tourists, developing communities

August 12, 2017
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Rural tourism in the Philippines at Banaue Rice Terraces.

At the Second Inter­na­tion­al Rur­al Tour­ism Con­fer­ence held in Anji County in Huzhou, China, July 16 – 18, 2017 the World Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (UNWTO) released its report on Inter­na­tion­al Rur­al Tour­ism Devel­op­ment — An Asia-Pacific Per­spect­ive. The report presen­ted best prac­tices in rur­al tour­ism devel­op­ment through­out Asia Pacific and show­cased the power of tour­ism to help mil­lions escape poverty. […]

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