Environmental Best Practice: Green Tourism in the UK - Coursework Example

This research aims to identify the best environmental practice in the area of tourism in the UK.  It is hypothesized that green tourism, which has gained wide acceptance, benefits the organization or business and the entire community that is taking advantage of a natural environment. Green tourism also promotes the protection and preservation of the environment.

“What is good for the environment is good for business,” says the ‘Our Environment’ website.

Here’s another thought-provoking statement from the website on Tourism Scotland:  “The growth of tourism is one of the great economic and social phenomena of the past century.”

True.  But whilst we may promote tourism, profits in mind, let us not forget our environment.  Governments and organizations, and every human being on this planet earth, have to do something good for the world and the environment in the midst of business and profits.  With the sudden and so much advancement in technology, added with a fast-growing population, mother earth has truly suffered.  Global warming is a big threat to humanity.  Because of toxic pollution and environmental pollutants left behind by businesses that have no regard for the world, there is far great damage done to the environment and man.

Tourism involves people, transient people, taking advantage of nature or the environment, and if they are not truly guided and informed of simple rules about the proper use of the environment and nature, there will be the destruction of the original creations of nature.  Tourists, local or foreign, should be guided and allowed to admire nature and the environment properly, in the same way, we deal with our business establishments and other structures, man-made and natural.  There should be a way to handle them properly, and also a way to reciprocate this goodness of tourists from the establishments that the tourists or citizens are passing through.  That is the aim of green tourism.

We will conduct our research about environmental best practices on business establishments in England and Scotland and other parts of the UK.  We will investigate green companies that bring the values of environmental sustainability into their everyday practices. This research will involve the distribution of questionnaires and telephone interviews to determine the measures they are taking to preserve and protect the environment, and help attain sustainable development.  We will also be surfing the web for websites of businesses and organizations with best environmental practices.

In the course of our research, we will also feature case studies of organizations in their best environmental practice.  We will highlight these case studies in and around England and Scotland to demonstrate our hypotheses.

Research Objectives:

         Our research objectives/questions are:

1. What best environmental measures are being practiced by green companies in the UK?
2. How can these practices be enhanced or improved?
3. What are the good practices of green tourism?
4. How is green tourism related to sustainable development?

1. How does green tourism help improve the business?