QUESTION 1

Tourism, by its very nature, is considered to be a fragmented industry where its development and management has increasingly become a process of negotiation between different stakeholders and interest groups

(a) Using a destination(s) of your choice, analyze the different stakeholders in the tourism industry and assess the factors that are likely to determine their influence in the tourism policy and planning process

(b) Analyze the critical factors that are needed for successful collaboration between different stakeholders in the industry. Illustrate your answers with examples

QUESTION 2

Using a destination of your choice, analyze the impact of a disaster (s) on the tourism industry and critically discuss the changes they have initiated in tourism policies and planning

QUESTION 3

The complexity of the tourism product and the current emphasis on sustainable development indicate that uncontrolled commercial development is likely to create more problems than it solves

Critically review the arguments in favour of tourism planning and discuss how planning can be used to correct market failure and promote sustainable tourism

QUESTION 4

It is important to conceptualize carrying capacity, because the ability to express this in terms of an ambiguous standard measure is essential in order to facilitate tourism planning (Saveriades, 2000)

Critically define the concept of carrying capacity and discuss the factors affecting it in a destination