Posted: April 28th, 2015

Individual Assignment: Report on Sustainability Practice

Individual Assignment: Report on Sustainability Practice

Task Description:
This report requires students to critically evaluate tourism practices and how such practices align with or deviate from principles of sustainability. Students need to choose a tourism operation in order to analyse their sustainability practices based on given criteria.

The task:
1. Briefly outline the operation (decide one of the operation). The operation needs to be an organisation – accommodation (ex, rain forest accommodation) provider or tour company. It is recommended that the operation needs to have enough information available from online sources or that students can visit the operation to assist in their assessment. (for environment, impacts on tourism)
2. Identify the most important sustainability issues facing the operation(add challenges, problems,responsible marketing…).
3. Apply an appropriate tourism sustainability criteria* and assess how the operation is addressing sustainability. An appropriate tourism sustainability criteria* = Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria for Hotels and Tour Operators and or The Ecotourism Australia ROC and ECO certification criteria( Should read criteria reading for get some ideas)(Characteristic business idea). The application of the criteria will be directed by the student’s assessment of the important sustainability issues facing the operation.
4. Discuss what could be done to improve sustainability practices. Include peer reviewed articles to identify the problems associated with implementing sustainable tourism and how suggested improvements could be made.(Which areas, can do more business. –step4)
Notes:
1. You should have a minimum of 8 academic journal articles to support your analysis of your tourism operation.
2. Do NOT cite your lecturers, or lecture notes as references.
3. You may use newspaper articles and other website reports as evidence of issues but there still needs to be peer reviewed articles in section 4.

Suggested Contents
1. Introduction
2. Tourism Operation(Where is located, what is it –business)
3. Sustainability Issues
4. Assessment of Operation (Analyse)
5. Discussion of Potential Improvement
6. Conclusion
7. References