Tourism Planning Dimensions

• The complexity of tourism plans varies according to level, time frame, scope and space
• Levels- a tourism plan may be carried out at the international, national, regional, provincial, municipal/city, or site level
• Time Frame- all plans are future-oriented and these plans may be short-, medium-, or long-term
• Short-term usually means two years or less in the future, medium term is two to five years, and long-term as five years and up.
• Scope- A tourism plan may be comprehensive in scope, or focused on one or just a few aspects of tourism planning
• • A comprehensive tourism plan is also known as a Master Plan.
  • A master plan is actually composed of several smaller plans.
• Spatial Units - the space covered in tourism planning is called a tourism development unit.
• Spatial concept:

  • Tourist site
  • Tourist development area (TDA)
  • Tourism cluster
  • Tourism circuits
  • Tourism corridor