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Resort Planning
Resort Planning
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 region.
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
1. 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
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3. 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
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4. Recreation
• Unlike hotels, resorts need to invest heavily on land
and equipment for recreation
5. Seasonality
• Hotels operate year-round
• Most resorts are seasonal due to location
6. 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”
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7. 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
8. Labor Skills
• Employees should be able to rotate in
different jobs
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9. 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
10. 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. 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