Sustainable tourism in the Philippines faces issues from overdevelopment that harms the environment. The government has launched a Save Our Spots campaign to promote more sustainable practices among tourists and industry, such as reducing single-use plastics. This encourages environmentally-friendly behavior that benefits both the natural environment and tourism experience. While tourism growth is large, development has not always been sustainable; educating all stakeholders on sustainability issues and encouraging the transition to more responsible operations, as some resorts have done, are important to protect the islands for the future.
Sustainable tourism in the Philippines faces issues from overdevelopment that harms the environment. The government has launched a Save Our Spots campaign to promote more sustainable practices among tourists and industry, such as reducing single-use plastics. This encourages environmentally-friendly behavior that benefits both the natural environment and tourism experience. While tourism growth is large, development has not always been sustainable; educating all stakeholders on sustainability issues and encouraging the transition to more responsible operations, as some resorts have done, are important to protect the islands for the future.
Sustainable tourism in the Philippines faces issues from overdevelopment that harms the environment. The government has launched a Save Our Spots campaign to promote more sustainable practices among tourists and industry, such as reducing single-use plastics. This encourages environmentally-friendly behavior that benefits both the natural environment and tourism experience. While tourism growth is large, development has not always been sustainable; educating all stakeholders on sustainability issues and encouraging the transition to more responsible operations, as some resorts have done, are important to protect the islands for the future.
Sustainable tourism in the Philippines faces issues from overdevelopment that harms the environment. The government has launched a Save Our Spots campaign to promote more sustainable practices among tourists and industry, such as reducing single-use plastics. This encourages environmentally-friendly behavior that benefits both the natural environment and tourism experience. While tourism growth is large, development has not always been sustainable; educating all stakeholders on sustainability issues and encouraging the transition to more responsible operations, as some resorts have done, are important to protect the islands for the future.
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MARY JANE CELEDONIO
FINA LEXAMINATION REQUIREMENT
What have I learned about sustainable What I researched about the current tourism? sustainability issues of Philippine tourism?How are these being addressed? It taught me the benefits of traveling sustainably for the environment, society, -We have approximately 7000 islands, and the destinations people visit. This is and there are still many more that need what inspires me to respect the locals, to be developed. At the moment, anyone their culture, and their faith, as well as to can purchase an island and develop a support local businesses. It encourages resort. Fine, as long as it is sustainable. the use of ecologically friendly products However, there is always a lot of tourists and the protection of the environment. I in the Philippines. More visitors imply learned that tourism must be sustainable more garbage, noise, and pollution, all of in order to retain the positive economic which could upset the area's ecological and social consequences of the industry's equilibrium.The Save Our Spots (S.O.S.) expansion while minimizing any negative campaign was started by the Philippines effects on the natural, cultural, or social Department of Tourism (DOT) in an surroundings. In a nutshell, sustainable effort to inform people about how to tourism protects the local people, the travel more responsibly and persuade environment, and the economy. them that environmentally friendly Continuous impact monitoring and practices can improve their vacation appropriate preventative and/or experience. The SOS campaign has corrective action are required to achieve gained support from the national tourism sustainable tourism. Sustainable tourism industry, with travel agencies, hotels, should provide visitors with a memorable and tour operators helping to spread the experience in addition to upholding a message. The DOT encourages these high level of visitor happiness, improving stakeholders to include the campaign their understanding of sustainability into their employee training by supplying issues, and fostering sustainable them with information and promotional practices. materials. Additionally, the Department provides its own training courses, such as this webinar on lowering the use of single-use plastics in the hospitality industry. In the Philippines, the campaign attracted a lot of support and media attention. Many referred to it as a bayanihan project, which is a term for a traditional form of community spirit. Both visitors and residents can view their involvement in the campaign as a charitable endeavor.
- The growth of tourism is phenomenal
but the development is not sustainable. They have no knowledge about sustainability, what environmental conservation is, why it is important.Progress is good. Tourism that contributes to progress and development is good. Unfortunately, it is the environment that pays dearly for over-development and irresponsible tourism. It costs a lot of money for many hotels and resorts, for instance, to make the transition to sustainable tourism practices. When Boracay was reopened, the 71-room Coast Boracay was among the first resorts to support government initiatives to protect the environment by reducing the amount of waste the resort and its visitors produce. It first started by getting rid of its plastic water bottles, which were previously served to its guests in its restaurants and in every room, and replacing them with glass water bottles that can be refilled. Next, it gave its visitors bamboo water straws.
