Leisure, Sport and Tourism – Year 12 Lesson 14

 What is sustainable tourism?  What might limit its success?  Will some environments have more successful sustainable tourism than others? Key Question today is… What sub-questions do we need to consider to answer the key question?

 Definition:  Definition: Sustainable tourism is tourism that conserves primary tourist resources and supports the livelihoods and culture of local people.

 Sustainable:  Sustainable: within the limits of our resources so that human needs can be met indefinitely.  Physical carrying capacity:  Physical carrying capacity: the measure of absolute space e.g. Number of spaces in a car park.  Ecological carrying capacity:  Ecological carrying capacity: the level of use that an environment can sustain before environmental damage occurs.  Perceptual carrying capacity  Perceptual carrying capacity: the level of crowding that a tourist will tolerate before deciding that a location is too full.

 Imagine you were setting up a new sustainable tourism resort in a remote coastal area of the Philippines. 1. Read the “principles of sustainable tourism” 2. In small groups design your own sustainable tourism resort – you need to consider the resort’s infrastructure as well as the way in which the business is run. This needs to be specific to a remote coastal location in the Philippines.

 Look back at “the principles of sustainable tourism” and the sustainable tourism resort that you have designed.  What is easily achievable in relation to “the principles of sustainable tourism” in a remote coastal area of the Philippines?  What is difficult to achieve in relation to “the principles of sustainable tourism” in a remote coastal area of the Philippines?

 Can you think of examples of places where sustainable tourism might be more / less successfully implemented?  Why do you think sustainable tourism can be more successfully implemented in some environments? Think about:  Social factors  Economic factors  Environmental factors  Political factors

 Why is sustainable tourism implemented more successfully in certain environments?