Sustainable Tourism Planning: A Strategy for Oecusse-Ambeno, East Timor
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. East Timor
1.2. Sustainable Tourism Planning
“(...)Tourism has become a key industry for the region and one of the most important value-added and employment”[4].
2. Materials and Methods
- First phase—bibliographical review and characterization studies of the territory.
- Second phase—comparative diagnostics based on examples of good practice and SWOT analysis.
- Third phase—presentation of a proposal of a tourism development network in the region, zoning areas of opportunity for different and specific opportunities.
- Fourth phase—definition of strategies and guidelines to support intervention programs per identified subareas (according to the zoning presented on phase three) within the intervention area [15].
3. Results
3.1. Oecusse-Ambeno Region
3.2. Strategy
3.3. Proposal
- Promotion of cohesion and community organization by including all groups and age groups of the population in the participatory process.
- Priority preservation of the territory and natural resources are the basis for defining the conceptual and institutional basis of the intervention.
- Transparency and precaution in transferring the risks, benefits, and costs.
- Encouraging the maintenance of traditions and natural and cultural heritage.
- Relevance to actions to remove cultural barriers and institutions in developing countries.
- Context supply for the intensive use of the local population in economic activities linked to tourism.
- Marketing of the destination.
- Planning and monitoring visitor flows and its impact on resources—LAC (limit of acceptable change).
- Partnerships with private institutions and nongovernmental organizations that can bring know-how and investment.
- Contextualized approaches to the socioeconomic reality.
- Good access, infrastructure levels, and public services.
- Regulation and policies that promote tourism as an activity at the level of the issuance of visas and better access through air flights, as a precaution in the new tourism developments.
- Promotion of quality destinations and products, based on the integration of local communities, their identity and way of life, to maximize the economic gains for the region while avoiding the leakage of capital outward.
- Creation of a team responsible for marketing targeting a global audience, working with tour operators and local communities, studying consumers and looking for diversification of supply and advantageous public-private partnerships.
- Build a network of activities in the various cultural and ecological components, positioning the destination as an example of sustainability in the region.
- Training and capacity-building programs in tourism in the national educational curriculum, vocational and technical education, as well as at the level of training community facilitators to support tourism in each culture.
- Provide continuous training to workers in the sector, and maintaining the competitiveness of the destination through their capacity for innovation.
- Promote a safe and comfortable environment to minimize intracommunity conflicts and crime and develop a response plan and natural disasters management.
- Establish partnerships between the state and other actors in the territory to develop infrastructures (transport, water, energy) through mechanisms for capturing and managing the investment.
- Ensure and seek funding sources with lasting budgets that alleviate local budgets and regional authorities.
- Approve a territorial model guaranteeing the preservation of natural and cultural resources essential for tourism promotion.
- Integrate good practices in environmental conservation into tourist activity through regulation and programs, adopting models of continuous monitoring of the state of resources to explore.
- Ensure the certification of activities and ventures within the framework of sustainability and community tourism.
- Adoption of guides to good practices and monitoring systems for sustainable tourism development and community tourism.
- the existence of a national or regional tourism plan
- the model of public participation in the decision process
- the access level and service charge basic infrastructures
- the employed population in the tourism sector
- the school-level of the population
- the percentage of local income generated by tourist activity
- the annual rate of new tourist establishments
- the number of visitors
- the average expenditure per visitor
- the average time for issuing a visa/authorization
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Amado, M.; Rodrigues, E. Sustainable Tourism Planning: A Strategy for Oecusse-Ambeno, East Timor. Urban Sci. 2021, 5, 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5040073
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Chicago/Turabian StyleAmado, Miguel, and Evelina Rodrigues. 2021. "Sustainable Tourism Planning: A Strategy for Oecusse-Ambeno, East Timor" Urban Science 5, no. 4: 73. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5040073