QUESTION 1

Ocean and coastal tourism is widely looked upon as one of the fastest growing locales of contemporary tourism. While tourism expansion has been spatially focused on the beach for much of the past 50 years, as witnessed for instance, the slogan of the three ‘S' of tourism - sun, sand and surf - the ocean and the marine milieu as a whole has become one of the new frontiers and fastest growing segment of many economies, particularly for Small Island Developing States. However, since of the highly dynamic nature of the coastal environment in such economies and their special characteristics, any development which interferes with the natural ecosystem may have severe results for the long-term sustainability is the environment in diminutive economies.

a) Using proper instances to support your arguments, critically analyze the different features of Small Island Developing States.

b) In the light of the above declaration and using suitable evidence to support your arguments, critically discuss the dissimilar impacts of tourism on the coastal and marine environment of small island nations.

QUESTION 2

• Using relevant instances to exemplify your arguments, critically analyze the causes of seasonality in the tourism business.

b) Discuss the impacts of seasonality on destinations and the dissimilar policies and tools which destination managers can use to manage seasonality troubles in tourism.

QUESTION 3:

Left to itself, the market mechanism is not succeeded to allocate resources in the most appropriate manner. As a consequence, state intervention in tourism policy making is needed to ensure the sustainable development of the industry.

In the light of the above statement, converse the rationale for government intervention in tourism and the different policies and tools available to the state to influence tourism development. You are required to use relevant instances from Mauritius and/or internationally to give good reason for your arguments.

QUESTION 4

"To date a framework for the systematic examination of bilateral tourism has not been developed. Such investigation of the factors underpinning bilateral flows will enable identification of strategies that can be adopted to increase inbound flows, to decrease monetary unevenness, and thus to increase overall destination competitiveness"

In the light of the above announcement define the concept of bilateral tourism and critically discuss the factors influencing bilateral tourism flows. You are needed to use relevant examples to support your arguments.