Sustainable Development And Tourism In Bhutan

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Sustainable development and tourism in Bhutan. Does tourism helps or hampers sustainable development in Bhutan?

All around the world we do practice everything in sustainable way. The most important thing in our daily life is the sustainable living. Everyone living on this earth need to have the
Sustainable way of living. There are many ways where we need to have sustainable living like
Sustainable agriculture, sustainable society and sustainable Communities and most important thing in our life is sustainable environment. The above mentioned should practice in the way that it should meet the needs of the present generation and without taking away the future needs of the people. So, when we talk about the sustainable development of tourism …show more content…

Whatever the development process that takes place in the country, that should help the people in long run.
Without the good development process country will face problems in the long run. As considered by the world leaders, even the Bhutan has sustainable development as one of the pillars of the Gross National Happiness. So this indicates that development should be there in a sustainable way.

Even governments have taken many majors and capabilities to provide the good information of sustainable development. Like wise we use to take care of the agriculture in the past, today policies and more interest were given on the tourism sector.
Sustainable development as mentioned before, whatever the development or the activities we carry out for the future process, it should benefits the present generation and help to upcomming society in long run. The development process should not collapse after certain period of time and also the plan should not fail after few years. Now in this regards we should also think about the resources and for the environments. Because of very important in the world, this has become one of the main pillars in gross national happiness. Sustainable development …show more content…

The next points I would like to mentioned about the benefiting to country or a regions. The first thing that benefits is the revenue which generates from the tourist
They also helps to many organizations and many departments, to clubs, and individuals also which is also leading to the sustainable living Tourism is a highly labor intensive, relatively low skill industry, which has huge potential for the generation of employment. Although no reliable data are available to substantiate the
Arguments, the international trends shows that on an average,3.5 additional tourist results in one additional direct job in tourist industry and 1.25 indirect job related industries. The tourism industry is the highest foreign exchange earner for Bhutan and one of the largest employers after civil service. In 2004, more than 9000 tourist visited the country, which generated a revenue of us$12.45 million. (This is according to the geography supplementary text for class XII p.44)
Unplanned and unrestricted growth of tourism has detrimental effects in the environment.

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