Mariano Marcos State University

College of Business, Economics and Accountancy

DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
City of Batac, Ilocos Norte

In partial fulfillment
of the course
TM 133 TOURISM IMPACTS AND SUSTAINABILITY

Midterm Requirement
(SUSTAINABLE TOURISM INDICATORS AND DESTINATION MANAGEMENT)
: Analysis and Mitigation Techniques

Prepared by:
Coleen Denise D. Aquino

Submitted to:
Rona Leigh C. Bueno

1st Semester
SY. 2016-2017
 CONTENTS

Abstract .. 1
Background of the Tourism Project .. 2
Mitigation Techniques Used .. 3
Recommendation . 4
 ABSTRACT

Bohol is a multifaceted emerging tourism destination. Like other

destinations worldwide, it can benefit from good planning and management, the
ability to deliver strong sustainable tourism in robust destinations depends on
good information. They also held a workshop in Bohol to used a participatory
approach where local conditions were analyzed and indicators evaluated through
active debates during discussions. The involvement of local tourism stakeholders
in preparation of the workshop and the event itself was essential in order to
create a real situation that demonstrates the use of indicators, specific concerns
that have provided a focus for the workshop discussions and a laboratory for the
generation of meaningful and useful indicators. The result of this will be of direct
use to Bohol and more generally as an example for those who plan and manage
tourism throughout the Philippines. The practical and participatory event
contributed to local and national tourism planning processes, and in
strengthening the capacity of tourism planning at a national level. It
demonstrated the process for applying indicators with the expectation that the
experience can be replicated in other destinations in the country. It is also hope
that this report will be of use as a point of references for other destinations who
face similar challenges in the design and management of sustainable tourism in
similar destinations in the world.

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 Background of the Tourism Project

UNWTO has been conducting research and capacity building activities in

the field of sustainable tourism indicators for more than decade. The essence of
the indicators program of the UNWTO is risk management and provision of
critical information to those in planning and management so that they can
anticipate and prevent unacceptable and unsustainable outcomes. Better
information through indicators provides the ability to define risks to key assets, to
communities, to the values most important to the communities and tourists, and
the levels of preparedness of destinations in the event of problems or as an
means to anticipate and prevent them. The UNWTO Guidebook on Indicators of
Sustainable Development for Tourism Destinations (2004) is designed to help
identify key issues and the indicators which can help managers respond
effectively to them and sustain what makes a destination viable and attractive.
Indicators are defined measures of the existence or severity of current issues,
signals of upcoming situations or problems, measures of risk and potential need
for action, and means to identify and measure the results of our actions.
Indicators are information sets which are formally selected to be used on a
regular basis to measure changes that are of importance for tourism
development or management.
Used properly, indicators can become key management tools performance
measures which supply essential information both to the managers and to all of
the stakeholders in tourism. Good indicators can provide in-time information to
deal with pressing issues and to help guide the sustainable development of a
destination. At each tourism destination, there exist certain data and information
that can serve as sustainability indicators if their relevance is understood.
Tourism professionals work regularly with indicators. The most commonly used
and understood indicators are volumetric, including tourist arrivals, overnight s
spent, and accommodation capacities, or economic, such as tourism revenues
and expenditures. These are reference points for business decisions and for
ongoing management of the industry. These are many existing indicators that
can be used as sustainability indicators, when their relevance to sustainability
issues is understood. For example, the number of tourists, a baseline figure, can
be considered a sustainability indicator, when it is related to infrastructure
capacity at a certain site (e.g. the airport) or to measure tourist response to
efforts to change use patterns.

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 Mitigation Techniques Used

The sustainable development of Bohol is quite good because they include

all the issues or problems of the place. They determine all the just to mitigate or
think of a way to solve the problem. And the following recommendation will add
more to their ways in solving the problems.
The economic issues most probably their facing an issue of congestion of tourist,
solid waste disposal, no zoning and no potable water. Congestion of tourist, here
the more tourist will come the more congested it gets and the more environment
and animals would be destroyed and disturbed. Bohol is famous because of the
chocolate hills and the tarsier, and if mean famous it means a lot of tourist will be
visited in the place. To mitigate this they need to make the entrance fees into a
higher price for seeing the tarsier because if it is open for all or a cheap price for
the entrance fees a lot of visitors will go and the tarsiers will get disturbed by
them because of noise and also by doing this the income of Bohol will get high.
Solid Waste Disposal, the tourist sometimes dont care about the place because
their garbage would just throw away everywhere and making the place looks
awful. To mitigate this they need to provide more garbage bag/cans especially in
the beach area and near the chocolate hills, we dont want the hills gets
destroyed the beautiful view by throwing our garbage there. The staffs/employee
must always remind the tourist not to throw their garbage everywhere and just
put it in their pocket and throw it after in the trash can. Also, make a signage of
Do not litter and if they caught littering they will give a fine of 500.00 and that is
a practice to sustain the economy of the place. No zoning, zoning is when a
place is divided by different areas so that the tourists, visitors and employees will
know where and not to enter. Do a zone in the place by having the tarsiers
visited by 10-15 tourist for 20 minutes. Another is the chocolate hills they must
have a limited visitors in that place so that no big damage will done. Last, no
potable water, the place have problems in having a potable water because of
limited resources. And they need one for the resorts so that they can use clean
water also for the guests. By having this they need to have more activities for
tourists, of course they need to pay not just for the government but for the place
to add for the budget in having a potable water.

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 Recommendation

The results of their discussions within the four working groups have been
combine and organized under the 12 aims for sustainable tourism. Their
objectives and broader aims are provided to each group to help in understanding
the scope of sustainable tourism and its components and to aid in structuring the
results. In economic issues, the need to improve existing products. There is a
clear need for improvement in the products, quality and quantity. Lack of non-
enforcement of policies by LGU's. The political and administrative framework
which tourism development occurs is insufficients. Congestion of tourist; tourism
is unevenly distributed accross Bohol, concentrating at a few sites. Problem of
solid waste management; garbage diaposal is seen as an economic problem-
potentially affecting the viability of tourism in Bohol. Land conversion or no
zoning of beach areas; there is a lack of proper zoning of the beach fronts and
no effective implementation of laws applying to the salvage zones. So they
implement and they did zoning the place. No potable water supply, the placed is
not served with a reticulated potable water supply. As a sequence, development
is limited and adversely affected by this lack of infrastructure. And they made a
plan to improve and have a potable water supply. They mitigate all of this by the
existence of an agreed and monitored suatainable development strategy or
action plan, or tourism component. The existence of marketing study and plan.
Budget associated for marketing marketing and promotion of the destination.
Last existence and implementation of plans to improve transport infrastructure
and success.