Challenges in Tourism Planning and Development

Challenges in Tourism
Planning and Development

Major Challenges in Tourism Planning
• Ecological imbalance
• Outbreak of disease
• Congestion and economic inefficiencies
• Resentment toward tourism
• Increase in criminal activities
• Destruction on host community
Ecological imbalance
• Tourism often puts pressure on natural resources through over-
consumption, often in places where resources are already scarce.
• Tourism puts enormous stress on local land use, and can lead to soil erosion,
increased pollution, natural habitat loss, and more pressure on endangered
species.
Outbreak of diseases
• The coronavirus health catastrophe has struck hard the international economy
and the tourism industry at large.
• The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has negatively influenced the global tourism
industry and also tourism planning and development.
Congestion
Increased traffic congestion, lower air-quality, and worsening of destination’s
image perception are just some of the negative externalities affecting
destinations relying on natural amenities and supplying nature-based
activities.
Traffic congestion can be seen as a collateral aspect related to tourism

development and planning, potentially leading to negative perceptions and
attitudes manifested by individuals in the long term—sometimes also
anticipating a proposed development (Mason & Cheyne, 2000)
Economic inefficiencies
-Tax, And Tourism
• The tourism industry is a profoundly taxed segment in a number of

countries. A variety of taxes are charged across the whole industry
starting with tour operators, transporters, and the airline industry to
hotels. These include service tax, comfort tax, shipping tax, aviation
tax, fuel tax, and several taxes on shipping.
Cost of Vacation and Increase in Prices
• One of the main challenges facing the tourism industry and tourism
planning is the variations in the exchange rates of currency.
• The increase in prices is increasing at a frightening rate and hotels
have had to increase prices or lower their service quality to stay
afloat.
Risk, And Safety Of Tourists
• Safety will always be a key concern for tourists. Safety has been a key
predicament for the development of tourism for many years. Unacceptable law
and order, terrorist attacks, political turbulence negatively affect the outlook of
overseas tourists. In spite of the economic development, tourism is susceptible to
ordinary and artificial crises, unforeseen events that impact the confidence of
visitors in a tourist destination.
• Besides, tourism is affected by natural disasters like pandemics, tsunami, earth

tremors, floods, volcanoes, and landslides. A crisis can be described as any
unforeseen event that influences tourist confidence in a destination while
interfering with the capability of normal operation.
Trained Human Resources
• The challenges facing tourism can only be met effectively through
well-educated, trained, bright, vigorous, multilingual, and industrial
employees who appreciate the nature of tourism. The high quality of
skilled human resources in tourism allows enterprises to attain a
competitive perimeter while providing value addition to their service.
Increase in criminal activities
• Tourism has long been recognized as a crime generator. There is

considerable evidence that many tourist resorts suffer higher than
average crime rates, that tourists are disproportionately victimized,
and that tourists often cause crime and disorder problems.
• Eg- nightlife, destinations include alcohol and drugs

Less Community Participation in Tourism planning
due to Destruction on host community
• Community participation in tourism is essential to support tourism because it
provides sustainable benefits for the community’s survival, especially for
people in developing countries.
• There are operational, structural, and cultural obstacles that hinder community
participation.
• Most tourism planning is only concerned with developing facilities or
infrastructure to facilitate physical access, while information access for local
people in tourism planning is not provided.
• Tourism organizers in developing countries must encourage participation by
facilitating bureaucracy and providing access to information for local
communities to participate
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Planning and Development

Traffic congestion can be seen as a collateral aspect related to tourism

• The tourism industry is a profoundly taxed segment in a number of

• Besides, tourism is affected by natural disasters like pandemics, tsunami, earth

• Tourism has long been recognized as a crime generator. There is

• Eg- nightlife, destinations include alcohol and drugs

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