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Tourism Planning        1
Assessment-2
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Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Key Issues Discussed in the papers    3
Solutions to Key Issues    4
Policy Planning Cycle    4
Information sufficient/lacking for stakeholders    6
Paper’s Effectiveness in communicating with the target audience    7
Reflection    8
Conclusion    8
References    9
As an Independent Tourism Planning Expert, I have chosen academic papers to conduct the comparison-
Paper-1: The Importance of Tourism to a Destination’s Economy
Paper-2: The Economic Importance of Tourism in Developing Countries
Introduction
Paper-1 by Bunghez (2016) describes that tourism industry should be considered as a separate branch of the economy it is because since 1600's tourists are liking the way they are interacting with other people and spending a good time of their holidays on the desired destination. There has been a lot of socio-economic transformations has also taken place within these years till 2018. The paper elaborates by describing that tourism is playing its major role in increasing the economy of the world and also modernization can be observed in the 21st century. On the other hand, paper-2 by Eruotor (2014) describes the tourism industry has had importance at a global level. It says that the tourism industry is developing rapidly than any other industry and also it is spreading peace and reducing poverty from the different parts of the world.
Key Issues Discussed in the papers
The issues are recorded considering the tourist's facilities available all over the world.
1. Insecurity of tourist: it has been analyzed from these papers that tourists are not safe from terrorist attacks and other mishappenings. Other factors include environmental hazards
2. Political instability- Government rules and policies are different in every country of the world. This affects the tourism procedures for the tourists.
3. Economic crises- there are fewer resources available for the tourists in some of the countries of the world. The devalue of currency has affected the profits earned by the tourism industry annually.
Solutions to Key Issues
For the developing countries Government authorities, private organizations and non-profit organizations are contributing to resolving the economic crises by collecting funds from different countries of the world. These funds will help to enhance the tourist development procedures and to ensure the tourists that they are safe from any external harm. Social-economic and political factors that affect tourism will be managed by the local authorities of the different countries to enhance the GDP and to have sustainable growth of the tourism industry.
Policy Planning Cycle
Policy planning cycle will help the countries to resolve the political issues to enhance the productivity of the tourism industry. This tool is easy and cost effective to use and is convenient for the small budgets projects.
Figure 1: Stages of Policy planning cycle
Source: (Mind Tools, 2018).
Stage-1 Analysis of Opportunities
For this, I will be using SWOT Analysis method
    STRENGTHS
    OPPORTUNITIES
    The contribution of Government authorities, private organizations and non-profit organizations to resolve issues
    Funds that are received from other countries
    WEAKNESS
    THREATS
    Developing countries have a lack of infrastructure
    Security of tourists is the threat for the tourism industry
Step-2: Identifying...