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Suto411 Week 15 Lecture

This document discusses monitoring sustainability activities in tourism. It emphasizes the importance of regularly monitoring sustainability plans and initiatives to evaluate achievement of objectives and allow for stakeholder input and continuous improvement. Key aspects to monitor include roles and responsibilities, ecological impacts through various methods like site evaluations, audits, and recording systems. Regular monitoring of performance, hazards, policies, and risks is important for effective sustainability.

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Suto411 Week 15 Lecture

This document discusses monitoring sustainability activities in tourism. It emphasizes the importance of regularly monitoring sustainability plans and initiatives to evaluate achievement of objectives and allow for stakeholder input and continuous improvement. Key aspects to monitor include roles and responsibilities, ecological impacts through various methods like site evaluations, audits, and recording systems. Regular monitoring of performance, hazards, policies, and risks is important for effective sustainability.

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SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

WEEK 15 LECTURE
Monitoring sustainability activities

Importance of monitoring sustainability activities

Continuous monitoring and evaluation is required in all


aspects of an organisation’s sustainability operations with a
focus on the achievement of its original sustainability
objectives.

 How can it be done?

 What do you want to monitor?

Slide 2
Monitoring sustainability activities

Importance of monitoring sustainability plan


and initiatives

For a sustainability plan to be effective:

 It needs to be regularly monitored

 With opportunities for the stakeholders


to generate ideas and

 Suggestions for improvement and

 A procedure to discuss and implement


options for improvement

Slide 3
Monitoring sustainability activities
Understand monitoring roles and responsibilities
It is vital that the relevant authorities responsible for the
monitoring and impact caused by tourism operations
understand:
 Their role in the monitoring process
 Their authority
 Resources allocated to the monitoring process
 The methods of identifying impacts that are to be used
 Timelines that apply to when monitoring can be done
 The types of impacts to be monitored
 The information to be reported to management
Slide 4
Measuring ecological impacts

Conduct region or site evaluations

 Recording existing data and statistics relating to the


ecology in general terms

 Conducting terrestrial and habitat surveys

 Conducting fauna surveys

 Specifying the condition of species that are of special


concern

Slide 5
Measuring ecological impacts

Conduct region or site evaluations

 Recording images of the site/area

 Involving independent third party ecological assessors

 Filing the material gathered for future reference

 Making the findings of the initial site evaluation available to


key stakeholders

Slide 6
Measuring ecological impacts

Other methods to identify environmental impact


 Logbooks
 Sighting forms
 Temperature measurements
 Recording of weather conditions
 Estimations of percentage cover
 Calculations of water flows and storage levels
 Testing and analysis of levels of contamination as
appropriate to the location
 Recording visual images
 Observations recorded in journals
Slide 7
Measuring ecological impacts
Conduct a sustainability audit
This audit can be designed and implemented to determine:
 The activities conducted
 The size of the organisation including the physical premises
and resource requirements
 Energy demands
 The waste pollutants produced, options for
reducing these and methods of disposal
 The general impact to land, water, air and energy
 The attitude of the organisation towards sustainability
Slide 8
COMPLETE ACTIVITY 24
Measuring ecological impacts

Using appropriate recording systems

 Workplace inspection checklists

 Workplace audits and compliance reviews

 Questionnaires and checklists

 Spreadsheets and other software programs

 Breach or non-compliance reports

Slide 9
Measuring ecological impacts
Information contained within recording systems

 Measurements of environmental performance

 Details of environmental hazards

 Details of environmental policies and strategies

 Assessment of environmental policies and strategies

 Details of potential and existing environmental risk


assessment and identification

 Comments and responses, including


complaints, from internal and external sources

COMPLETE ACTIVITY 25
Slide 10

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