ITFT-Critical issues in tourism
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The document discusses critical issues in tourism that need to be addressed, including establishing formal links between tourism development and climate agendas, pursuing tourism growth with an emphasis on ethics, community involvement, and reducing carbon emissions to meet sustainability goals. It also stresses the need for responsible government policies to set frameworks that lead the transition to a new approach of intelligent growth focused on sustainability and inclusion through new metrics and strategies.
ITFT-Critical issues in tourism
- 2. A clear and formal link between the development and the climate agenda has to be established.
- 3. Tourism growth must be pursued with increasing emphasis on ethics, local community involvement as well as reducing carbon emissions systematically to meet sustainability goals.
- 4. More sustainability goals and climate targets need to be included in corporate objectives.
- 5. This quality oriented growth pattern will provide major opportunities for new entrepreneurs, creating a shared space for business, communities and innovative governments.
- 6. Intelligent growth calls for new metrics which go beyond existing measurement tools. The legal and the ethical base need to be developed side by side and factored into this measurement, together with new databases to cover areas of intersect between public and private sectors.
- 7. Responsible government policies must set the framework to lead the drive to this new approach, which will need transition strategies.
- 8. Safety concern: Crime and political problems, including terrorism, will dominate agendas. Will anybody will plan to go to destination which is not safe?? e.g. Lethal 9/11 Attack Indian Parliament Attack, Gujarat riots, J&k problem, Taj Attack.
- 9. Climate change has multistakeholder impacts and calls for multistakeholder response including the public and private sector, travellers and local communities.