TOURISM PLANNING

Tourism Planning and Economic Development

Tourism Planning and Economic Development

Introduction

The cynical statement “Tourism planning within Europe is still dominated by an essentially 'economic' approach to development” is true as it affirms recurrent scenario of European development and its relationship with the tourism planning. One has to agree with this statement as the tourism plans in Europe are aligned with the aim to bring economic development. Keeping in view this stamen, the essay focuses on this dominance towards the tourism planning. In this paper, we will also discuss about the European contries which have been focusong on economic development.

Defining Developing Plan

The term development means change, action and effect to develop, building one thing at a physical, intellectual or respectable level. The development in this context is to initiate and sustain a process by which to improve the living conditions of the population, i.e., higher levels of human development, reduced poverty levels, increased coverage of basic services, strengthening economic development, and others (Bowen, 2003, 51). The word planning is the action and effect of plan. Planning is a process comprehensively organized. In the case of tourism, planning is a process by which governments, with the citizen participation, local actors, and institutional care, come together to define the mechanisms, the way how to raise levels of regional development through tourism (Parlett, 1995, 360). The infrastructure created for tourism contributes to local development and the creation or retention of jobs, even in areas in industrial or rural decline or is the subject of urban regeneration (Bowen, 2003, 52). The need to improve the attractiveness of the region leading a growing number of destinations and stakeholders is to adopt practices and policies more sustainable and environment friendly. Sustainable tourism is a major influence on the preservation and enhancement of cultural and natural heritage in an ever increasing number of areas ranging from art to gastronomy, crafts or the preservation of biodiversity (Andrew, 1997, 735). Nearly all regional provision in their planning laws, have tourism planning instruments that must respond to the different objectives of tourism policy that, at all times, set by the Government of the Autonomous Community (Olsen, 1992, 68). Some others, such as Andalusia, do not include tourism in their planning laws, even if they have management plans for tourist. Tourism planning needs to be integrated and coordinated necessarily in tourism regulatory activity, and this is necessary to adapt, and relate to the plans a result of other administrative skills such as urban environment (Archer, 1977, 32).

Aim of the Planners

Development planning at the local or national aims to improve the quality of life population which essentially involves improving working conditions, health and education. This can be achieved through the articulation of services carried out by different institutions (Stahl, 1997, 369), including governmental, nongovernmental, national or international. Development planning participatory strategic planning is to propose solutions to short, medium, and long term plan beside the problems and needs that citizens come across. For this purpose, it is important to define growth strategies that ...