SUSTAINABLE TOURISM AND DESTINATION MANAGEMENT

Sustainable Tourism and Destination Management



Sustainable Tourism and Destination Management

Tourism in Tanzania

In the last 40 years, the international tourism industry in Tanzania has been very successful, and it is considered as international economic success (Coccossis and Parpairis 1995, pp.107). The positive effect of tourism on economic development is the driving factor behind the governments of in Tanzania economy to pursue investment in tourism (Hall 1995, pp.12). Tourism is perceived as a means for regional, as well as, national development to enhance infrastructure, balance of payments, foreign exchange revenues and employment in Tanzania (Edwards 2004, pp.9). In Tanzania, sustainable tourism is especially important because it has the potential to bring social, economic, and environmental benefits.

Sustainable tourism seeks to meet three over-arching goals: the quality of life of host societies must be improved; to accomplish visitor happiness; and to guard natural resources in destination countries (Hunter and Green 1995, pp.31). Inskeep has defined sustainable-tourism as, “which… meets the needs of present tourists and host regions while protecting and enhancing opportunities for the future. It is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic, social and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity, essential ecological processes, biological diversity and life support systems” (1991, pp.461).

As Tanzania is to provide low-cost flights low cost airlines and much more, Tanzania is becoming a very popular holiday place, and its attainment in the year 2004 of May, enabled Tanzania to enhance the quality of holidays that it offers to its guests. The best preserved islands, because the country is often called, provide plenty of resorts and beaches, it is also a friendly, welcoming and the general population on the island and island life completely refresh the view with literally the great culture and being a place full of historical values.

Tourism is defined as travel to a place outside the usual residential environment, involving a stay of at least one night but no more than 1 year, with varying motivations, such as business, pleasure, visits to friends and relatives (VFR), and education. Tourism has long been of interest to geographers, given its spatial, temporal, and activity patterns and given its major economic and environmental impacts, ranging from the local to the global.

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount kilimanjaro is a mountain in the African country of Tanzania near the border with Kenya. Kilimanjaro is actually a massif, a mountainous complex with a number of peaks, the highest being Uhuru Peak at 5,895 meters, the highest point of land on the continent of Africa. The massif is considered a strato-volcano containing magma 400 meters below the surface. No eruptions have taken place in the modern era.

Mount Kilimanjaro came into prominence in 2000 when researchers reported that its glaciers and ice fields were fast disappearing. The most prominent explanation for this phenomenon was global warming, which has also been blamed for the loss of comparable ice accumulations on a number of other mountain ranges in the equatorial ...