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Lpuplanning Resortplanning 120205071859 Phpapp02 PDF
Lpuplanning Resortplanning 120205071859 Phpapp02 PDF
RESORT
– Any place or places with pleasant environment and
atmosphere conducive to comfort, healthful
relaxation and rest, offering food, sleeping
accomodation and recreational facilities to the
public for a fee (definition per DOT Rules on
Accreditation)
Elements of a resort
1. Recreational facilities that draw guests to the facility
2. Housing and Food & Beverage services that cater
to people away from home
3. Activities to occupy guests during their stay
CLASSIFICATION OF RESORTS
According to Location
1. Diving Resort
2. Fishing Resort
3. Health/Spa
4. Golf Resort
5. Ski Resort
6. Gaming Resort
7. Theme Park
CLASSIFICATION OF RESORTS
According to Ownership/Lodging Properties
1. Resort Hotel
• Person “leases” the room/cottage for transient stay
2. Second-Home Development
• Person develops/buys another home in outdoor
areas
3. Timeshare Ownership
• Person pays for the right to accommodations at a
vacation development for a specified period each
year, for a specified number of years or for
perpetuity. It is essentially buying accomodation in
advance & paying annual contributions for
maintenance
Concentration of tourist facilities and
services in specified tourism zones allows for
efficient provision of infrastructure, offers a
variety of easily accessible activities and
facilities for tourists, encourages integrated
planning and application of development
controls, and contain any negative impacts in
certain areas. These tourism zones should be
located to be protected and areas more
suitable for other types of development. The
tourism zones needed to be integrated with
the transportation network that connects the
zones with the gateway to the country or
If possible, attractions should be clustered
with the secondary attractions developed
near primary ones in order to encourage
tourists to stay longer in the area.
Planning for tour routes should apply the
principle of not requiring back-tracking,
that is, loop tour patterns wherever
possible, infrastructure should be
multipurpose serving general community
needs as well as tourism.
Resort Planning
The modern concept of a resort is that planned as
an integrated development with consideration given to
its compatibility with the natural environment and
possible benefits to local communities.
Economic feasibility analysis: Analysis of the
economic costs and benefits of a project to the entire
area, region or country. A project may generate overall
positive economic benefits by attracting tourists to the
area, but not make a profit in itself.
Financial feasibility analysis: The financial rate of
return and profitability of a project based only on its own
costs and revenues.
Resort Planning Process
•First, market and product assessment (referring especially
to tourist attractions) is conducted, the resort development
objectives, type and size determined in preliminary form, the
site selected, and conceptual planning and prefeasibility
analysis carried out. This analysis feeds into more specific
determination of facility and land use requirements and
infrastructure needs, the regional relationships including
access to the site and regional integration, and the
environmental and carrying capacity analysis and
considerations of community relationships.
2. Facilities
• Resort rooms are larger
• More closet space is needed for resorts
• Larger amount of land is required for resorts for
recreational facilities
DIFF. IN MGT. OF HOTELS & RESORTS
1. Location
• Hotels are located in urban areas
• Resorts are located in rural areas
– Remoteness of the resort has an appeal to
the traveller who seeks an environment
different from the urban & sub-urban
environment of work and home
– Thus, resorts must be self-contained, that is,
it should have generous storage for food,
domestic goods, support services
DIFF. IN MGT. OF HOTELS & RESORTS
1. Recreation
• Unlike hotels, resorts need to invest heavily on land
and equipment for recreation
2. Seasonality
• Hotels operate year-round
• Most resorts are seasonal due to location
3. Personnel Attitude
• In a hotel, service is more “business-like.” Guests
look at hotel as temporary shelter
• In a resort, the guest expects to be pampered and
service should convey “Home & Family Hospitality”
DIFF. IN MGT. OF HOTELS & RESORTS
1. Managerial Knowhow
• In addition to knowhow of hotel
management concepts, resort managers are
expected to have knowledge in two areas:
The natural resource on which the resort is
based
Guest activity programming
Personalized guest relations
2. Labor Skills
• Employees should be able to rotate in
different jobs
DIFF. IN MGT. OF HOTELS & RESORTS
1. Corporate/Employer Responsibility
• Local communities may highly depend on
the resort for its economic future. Hence, the
resort should take on additional
responsibility to the community such as
employment opportunities
2. Employee Housing
• Resort needs to provide housing for its
employees and in some instances access to
schools, churches, hospitals
DIFF. IN MGT. OF HOTELS & RESORTS
1. Sources of Revenue
• Hotels get most of their income fr. rooms, and F & B
• In addition to rooms and F&B, resorts earn a lot
from recreational activities & retail sales
2. Resorts & Traditions
• Many resorts cater to repeat visitors so traditions
are more important
• Resorts should develop ways and means to develop
traditions which are image-building and memorable
such as annual festivals, theme weekends, sports
contests, and parties
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS IN
PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
Factors to Consider in resort
development
• Resort development involves a difficult
trade-off between benefits and
unfavorable impacts on the ff. aspects:
2. Economic
3. Social
4. Environmental
A. Economic Considerations in Resort Dev’t.
1. Employment
• Communities welcome the social benefit of job
creation in construction & operations
• However, it has employment-related social
problems:
o Established industries may be disrupted if they
lose good employees who transfer to the resort
o Communities may resent hiring of outsiders for
better paying positions
o For local community members working in the
resort, exposure to the “high” lifestyle of resorts
may cause dissatisfaction w/ his lifestyle &
develop a false sense of values anchored on
material acquisitions & creature comforts
B. Social Considerations in Resort Dev’t.
2. Recreational development
– Residents may resent and resist resort dev’t.
if it they don’t have access & are hindered
from leisure activities they used to enjoy
3. Infrastructure requirements & demands
– The resort would compete with local
community for use of water, energy,
transportation & communication resources
B. Social Considerations in Resort Dev’t.
4. Lifestyle changes
– More wives may take on financial obligations than
their husbands, disrupting traditional social norms
– Residents exposed to tourists’ lifestyles become
inclined to spend more specially on imported goods
– Possible increases in prostitution, drug addiction &
other crimes as a result of interaction with tourists
5. Congestion
– Human traffic
– Vehicular traffic
C. Environmental Considerations in Resort Dev’t.
1. Pollution
• From fertilizers, pesticides, exhaust fumes,
solid wastes & sewage
2. Conservation
• Resort dev’t. may damage the flora & fauna
3. Aesthetic impact
• Resort development may alter the view &
beauty of the natural landscape
STEPS TO MINIMIZE ADVERSE SOCIAL &
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
1. Conduct a study on the social & environmental
impacts
2. Develop action plan to maximize positive
impacts & lessen negative impacts
3. Involve the local community in the community-
based sustainable planning and development
processes
4. Pursue continuing resort-community programs
Educational interchanges & lectures
Social programs for the community such as medical
& dental missions
Joint environmental programs such as beach and
reef clean-up drives
STAGES IN RESORT DEVELOPMENT
1. Sea
a) air temperature, b) water temperature,
c) intensity of the wind & sun, d) currents, tides and
waves, e) clarity of water, f) pollution,
g) ecology/marine life, h) attractions
2. Seashore
– Consists of the surface under the water extending
up to a depth of six feet
– A gentle, uniform slope until 6 ft. depth is ideal
– Coarse sand at the bottom is ideal
ASPECTS OF BEACH DEVELOPMENT
3. Beach
– Consider quality of sand, slope and distance from
the shore
4. Back Beach
– Offers views to both the sea and inland
5. Coastal stretch
– Where service facilities, access roads, parking
facilities & bathhouses are located
6. Surrounding Country
– Provides the setting for the attraction
BEACH RESORT PRODUCT LIFE CYLCLE
Exploration – few adventurous tourists visit; no facilities