REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

5.4 DISCUSS ISSUES RELATED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY

Sustainable development refers to development and consumption in a sustainable way, such that our resources are not depleted and there is nothing left for future generations. As what I can see from this sustainable development in tourism and hospitality industry, there’s a lot of issues that can be highlighted as well as can be solve. A clear understanding of the issues surrounding climate change, global warming, air and water pollution, the loss of biodiversity, and global poverty is essential for every future manager in the hospitality industry.

In other word, the issues can lead to natural disaster which mean in this issues, society also need to cooperate to get a sustainable development in tourism and hospitality. This comes in light of the fact that we are connected with both the environment and societies as well.

There’s a few issues that highlighted to you that can cause negative effect to tourism and hospitality industry.

Issues 1:

The effects of climate change in tourism and hospitality industry can be manifold, and can be both negative and positive. If you and your organization are unprepared, you may suffer from the negative effects, while being unable to get any possible benefit from positive effects. Next the climate change also important for many types of tourism, while climate change can make the variability more extreme. If the climate change happen, tourism and hospitality industry are literally will face the high risk.

Issues 2:

To sustainable development in this industry there are so many challenge that need to be face. Global warming is the slow increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere because an increased amount of the heat striking the earth from the sun is being trapped in the atmosphere and not radiated out into space.

Issues 3:

Tourism, especially nature tourism, is closely linked to biodiversity and the attractions created by a rich and varied environment. It can also cause loss of biodiversity when land and resources are strained by excessive use, and when impacts on vegetation, wildlife, mountain, marine and coastal environments and water resources exceed the carrying capacity. This loss of biodiversity in fact means loss of tourism potential.

Issues 4:

Tourism and hospitality contributes to the perecentage of our country income. The world is making huge strides in overcoming global poverty. Since 1990, a quarter of the world has risen out of extreme poverty. Now, less than 10 percent of the world lives in extreme poverty, surviving on $1.90 a day or less

Positive:

These impact occur because tourism, both international and domestic, bring about an intermingling of people from diverse social and cultural background, and also a considerable spatial  redistribution of spending power, which has  a significant impact on the economy of the destination.

Negative:

This will lead to decreasing economy financial in some particular country because finance is so important for every country.

Suggestion:

Strict the law as well as cut off the things that unnecessary such as keep going the infrastructure.