Factors contributing to Economic Revitalization through Tourism

Question:

Discuss About The Economic Revitalization Through Tourism?

Clipper Bay is a small arrangement of 5000 persons that is located on the landfill of a Peninsular. The area is situated by the sea and at the location with specifically plentiful marine life.  The economy of this area is always turned around fishing and other professions, which aid the industry. The authorities at Clipper Bay believe that tourism will be advantageous in finding new and innovative opportunities (Arch Daily, 2010). The people in the tourism committees have decided to enhance the tourism by adopting cost-benefit approach. It will emphasize on developing the eco-tourism and fun and entertainment industry. The following report examines the development approach for uplifting the travel and tourism at Clipper Bay. It includes different causes of development by looking at advantages and disadvantages of various factors, like; socio-cultural, economic and environmental factors. Furthermore, it defines a sustainable approach that can be used for developing tourism sector, i.e. responsible tourism approach. At the end, the report marketing a discussion about stakeholders, who are associated in this economic regeneration via tourism at Clipper Bay.

Considering the requirement of economic revitalization at Clipper Bay, it is necessary to create a development plan for safeguarding the society from reduction of resources by addressing the change issues and securing the cultural and natural heritage. The communities at the town require renewing the economy by evolving commercial areas, industries, highways and corridors. In this fast changing world, businessmen and entrepreneurs should make efforts to promote the domestic culture and business to enhance the quality of life at Clipper Bay. The authorities can develop the best development approach by involve the societies and other related people in the town, who are concerned about justifiable results (Antonio, Arora, Doehring & Hernandez, 2014). In this approach, identification of business sectors for economic development is most important part in this economic renewal.

At Clipper Bay, there is a fishing industry, which is the major reason of livelihood of its population. So, this sector can be taken for the development. Agriculture and farming can work as the best manner for income the generation in the future. The town should consider these two sectors and promote the tourism and culture by generating revenues. It will be very helpful for the economy revitalization. Moreover, the organization should develop a program to make the local people aware. The population of Clipper Bay should be attentive about the well-being and other related concerns (Ardahaey, 2011). At Clipper, the tourism operators should stick a board with the instructions at its popular attractions that should be followed all the travellers and tourists. In this way, the authorities at Clipper should involve all the associated parties in revitalization process.

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost benefit analysis is an important technique that can be adopted for economic growth of the tourism activities. In any area, cost benefit analysis is an approach that is adopted by an organization to make the decisions in different situations, where the investment plan is forecasted to generate the significant costs and benefits that cannot be utilized completely via market transactions (Briassoulis & Van der Straaten, 2013). At Clipper Bay, cost and benefit analysis will assist the government to emphasize on the important variables of tourism growth or positive and adverse effects. At Clipper, the management will implement the cost benefit analysis by looking at some aspects, like; ease of access, pool of labor and resource readiness.

The tourists can reach to Clipper Bay via road transport. It would decrease travelling time and number of busses will be increased after the construction of highway road. Although, the people may face issues related to overcrowding, when the number of tourists will be increased. In this context, two way coastal roads can work as a better way to keep control on tourists. In this way, constructing new high way road will be an advantage to the Clipper Bay. This will offer so many benefits to the growth of the town in near future (Burayidi, 2013).

Pool of labor is also a factor that can be used in the cost benefit analysis. The people at Clipper Bay are doing finance business and they may fight with the development of tourism. In this process, tourism managers may confront various issues as there is a slight pool of labor with restricted arrangement of capacity (Cárdenas-García, Sánchez-Rivero & Pulido-Fernández, 2015). The managers will need to make the people aware to develop them with the knowledge and ability and then appoint the employees from neighboring towns.

The worldwide population travel to Clipper for visiting the natural attractions. They travel from urban locations to feel relaxing from their routine life. Resorts and hotels can be situated along with the coastal area to provide sufficient water for guests and travellers. At Clipper Bay, eco-tourism can be done by bringing the tourists to visit the lime stone cave and go for camping in forest (Coria & Calfucura, 2012).

Thus, all of these factors indicate that this is a better alternative to select tourism as primary source for Clipper Bay with these conditions.

At Clipper Bay, travel and tourism is chosen for economic revitalization in the area, so there is a need of implementation of sustainable approach. As a sustainable approach, the responsible approach can be suggested at Clipper Bay (Frey & George, 2010). This type of approach indicates an approach, which engages all the people and related stakeholders in the activities, like; businesses, domestic people of town, government, tour managers, tourists etc. This approach of responsible tourism will emphasize on the fact that all the related people and stakeholders are similarly responsible in this development process.

Importance of Basic Infrastructure and Superstructure

By implementing this approach, the departments will perform the activities by setting the objective of making better place to stay and to visit (Eusébio, Carneiro, Kastenholz & Alvelos, 2016). This responsible approach will be beneficial for this economic revitalization at Clipper Bay. The tourism industry will improve by implementing this approach as Clipper Bay and in turn it will revitalize the area economically. In addition, responsible approach of tourism will reduce the impact of economic, socio-cultural and environmental factors and generate economic benefits to domestic people in town.

For any tourist place, basic infrastructure consists of roads, hotels, electricity, highways, parks, hospitals, buildings, towers and other assisting structures, that aid tourism. At Clipper Bay, the concept of Geographic Information System (GIS) will be adopted for revising the infrastructure plan. This plan will different divisions, like; visitor’s division, network planning for transportation and zones (George, Mair & Reid, 2009). Furthermore, the visitors can also be segmented in many groups, like; business travellers, tourists on beaches, docks and town and research people for exploring the heritage and culture of Clipper Bay. Another phase, i.e. zoning, will include that zones in town will be segmented by considering the interest of tourists. Furthermore, it will ensure that all of these zones are linked via network of roads.

The changes and sustainability in travel and tourism cannot be seen without enhancing its superstructure. This superstructure may include different amenities related to structure at tourist destinations and attractions at Clipper Bay. These all things will be enhanced at beach front at Clipper to enhance the beach structure (Kim, Chen & Shawn Jang, 2006). The main amenities of beach superstructure include rooms, showers, clinics, rescue centers, changing rooms for tourists, security towers, food stores etc.

There may be different stakeholders in tourism industry at Clipper Bay, such as; tourists, domestic people, government, tourism managers and authorities, tour operators, societies and other agencies. These stakeholders will have their specific responsibilities and roles in the growth of eco-tourism. There is a diagram, which includes all the stakeholders, who will perform the activities collectively (Lee, 2013). They all will work for the interest of population of Clipper and tourists by developing awareness among tourists and fulfilling their social duties and responsibilities.

There are various economic factors, which are significant in the travel and tourism industry. These economic factors have both advantages and disadvantages in economic revitalization at Clipper Bay.

Stakeholders in Tourism Industry

There may be some economic advantages of tourism at Clipper Bay. These factors are like economic development through multiplier impact revenue to the society, by balance of payment and generation of various employment opportunities in the town.

Multiplier Effect:

Multiplier effect occurs, when the people start to spend the money on their trips and tours. First, the tour operators in Clipper Bay have direct impact of multiplier while they will generate cash from travellers (Leigh & Blakely, 2016). It will have an indirect impact on the domestic population of Clipper Bay when they will supply the sea food and receive wages from this facility as a result of business of tourism. When the people will earn more income through this business, then it will improve their living standards. By this, more funds will run in nation’s economy.  

With this economic revitalization, some hotels, restaurants and resorts will be opened up in the town. It will enhance the job and employment opportunities at Clipper Bay. It will be a kind of direct employment for domestic people. It will occur with the development of tourism. This growth in eco-tourism will enhance the indirect employment when the local fisherman and business class people hire more workers to deal with the increased demands and needs from the travellers and tourists (Lynch, 2013).

Other Economic Aspects:

Apart from above factors, there will be some other monetary impacts, like; expansion of business and foreign direct investment. By establishing this specific objective, there will be a need of significant capital for creating the foundation. The government and authorities at Clipper Bay can assist the tourism by spreading and elevating to international investors to construct resorts, factory outlets, hotels, restaurants in the town. These foreign direct investments will offer the benefits to both town and its people as well. Moreover, the government may help the businesses and professions by providing funds and grants (Mowforth & Munt, 2015).

Along with the growth in the economy, inflation will also occur at Clipper Bay. With the increase in number of travellers and tourists, there will be expansion in the sale of local goods. This will increase the spending of local people and this spending will impact the inflation negatively. Because of this, the population that is living in Clipper Bay will confront unusual costs of living (Sharpley, 2015). In this process, government and tourism authorities can try to regulate the inflation by utilizing a method, i.e. concretionary. Furthermore, another disadvantage is the increase in the job and employment opportunities.  Although, it will be good for the people of town, but it will switch the local people from their conventional business, i.e. waving and fishing to tourism and hospitality industry.

Economic Factors in Tourism Industry

There are some socio-cultural factors, which have both advantages and disadvantages to the town and community of Clipper Bay. These socio-cultural aspects are Exposure of artworks:

The government should focus on the exposure of specialty and artworks of town. This exposure will increase the travellers and visitors, who are travelling to Clipper Bay as there is direct connection between domestic people and visitors. With this increased awareness, commercialization of these artworks can occur (Sinclair-Maragh, Gursoy & Vieregge, 2015). With this, the government can make focus on Clipper Bay with antique center to make it safe and it will ensure that only domestic craft products will be sold at this antique center.

Safeguarding the heritage:

The government should make some changes in the rules and regulations at attractions. The government can utilize the tax, which is collected from the visitors to build a gallery in the town for tourists and youth generation, so that they can understand and mean the neighborhood social. There will be an instructor to safeguard and protect the culture and heritage and ensuring that there would not be pollution from vehicles, factories and industries.  

Cross-Cultural Obligation:

When the number of tourists will increase in Clipper Bay, then local people can demonstrate their own lifestyle. This will not only allow the tourists to understand the indigenous local people bur also the people will be prepared to expand their mindfulness through becoming informal. The domestic people will have the potential to have the benefit when any regular tourist begins to involve and help them in their routine activities (Webster & Ivanov, 2014). They will make efforts to revolutionize the tourism and incorporate new things from other tradition and culture.

Apart from these advantages, there are some disadvantages of socio-cultural factors from tourism at Clipper Bay. Because the people from different places and culture are arriving to Clipper Bay, it will affect the youths for being beak free from their daily practices and works. It will lead to the loss of custom in the town, as the local people will avoid the weaving and fishing business for getting better jobs in the hotels and resorts. In this way, it will impact the traditional and social segment of the town. In addition, there may be chances of moral disintegration, like; consumption of alcohol and smoking that can influence the religion of Clipper Bay. Some other disadvantages of these factors are that there will be scarcity of resources and assets because of overcrowding in town (Woo, Kim & Uysal, 2015).

There are some environmental factors, which may have both advantages and disadvantages to the town and its population.

The advantages from these factors are stated below;

 Safeguarding the environment:

In this economic revitalization process, the government will emphasize to allocate the land for national parks for making the animal and wildlife safe. The animals and creatures, which are harmful for the people, will be kept in the restricted area of parks. The authorities can sanction an area of beach front for building national park for protecting the vegetation. Thus, these environmental factors will assist in enhancing the life of animals and plants at Clipper Bay.

There are some other advantages, like; the income and revenues, which are earned from the famous tourist attractions in the town, can be utilized for renovation and development of these tourist destinations. In renewing the tourism, the management will make some eco-friendly and green efforts at Clipper Bay (Webster & Ivanov, 2014). It will improve the eco-tourism and use the biodegradable components. It will be advantageous for all over environment of Clipper Bay.

There are some environmental aspects, which have disadvantages from the growth of tourism business at Clipper Bay. There may be some issues related to the pollution, like; water pollution, air pollution, soil pollution and noise pollution. Increased utilization of transportation, like; airplanes and busses can increase the air pollution in the town (Mowforth & Munt, 2015). Due to tourism, there may be chances of misuse of natural resources, like; land, water, greenery etc. It can cause some environmental hazards, such as; pollution because of drugs, cigars and plastic bags.

Conclusion

From the above analysis, it can be concluded that tourism can be a major industry for economy revitalization at Clipper Bay. For enticing a significant number of tourists, the authorities and government have decided to improve the infrastructure and tourist attractions to the town. All the developments and improvements are well-organized to deal with the future alterations to keep them more attractive and updated. At Clipper Bay, the government will take the advantages from different factors, like; social, cultural, economic, environmental etc.  By this economic revitalization, Clipper Bay will be emerged as a famous tourist destination for visiting. The report includes advantages and disadvantages of different aspects, related to tourism development.

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