You have been asked to produce an individual written essay. In order to answer the question posed above satisfactorily, you should consider the following:
• How do the different theoretical perspectives inform and shape our understanding of tourism development and its capacity to stimulate economic development?
• What historical factors influenced/are shaping the emergence and transformation of tourism in this specific country/region/worldwide?
• What specific geographic-physical attributes have conditioned the scale, scope and organisation of tourism?
• Key attributes/state of existing tourism development (volume of arrivals, receipts, capacity, territorial expansion/concentration. Levels of employment in tourism etc…)
• Existing level of economic development/industrial structure
• Source(s) of capital and finance for tourism
• Commercial organisation of its tourism industries; corporate governance issues
• Government policies for tourism; indirect effects on tourism through fiscal and monetary policies etc
• What specific strategic planning interventions have influenced tourism?
• Social and cultural issues that may influence or shape approaches to/the capacity to benefit from tourism (eg., religion, gender relations)
• Environmental constraints/issues of sustainability