The aim of this trip was to show
how lack of planning can have a negative effect on economic system, environment, social and cultural in terms of land use, raw materials, natural
and human resources and other aspects. All of these projects lead market
failure, wastefulness and even death from tourism point of view. Role of Planners and governments are missed
and we can see, there is no sustainability in destination. Lack of master plan can
be felt in these areas.
North Cyprus
has beautiful beaches, marinas and mountains. The coastlines consist of rocky
coast and long golden sandy beaches which are eye catching in Mediterranean
region. Some of the North Cyprus beaches offer activities such as scuba diving
that attracts thousands of tourists every year to this Island for leisure time
that anticipate to have unforgettable memory which can motivate them to return
in future. Now the question is that why this island should lose many of resources
of land and beaches which are its main attractions?
According to
our field trip we have seen many places and it started by analysing the main
road from the entrance of university. Here one can observe the lack of harmony between
the buildings and lots of shop which they don’t have any parking area, also the
quality of streets and sidewalk and many unfinished projects that completely
destroyed appearance of the city are the reasons for lack of planning. Supermarkets
which are located in Main Street and because of lack of parking area, a lots of
conjunction seen and possibility of accidents can rise. After the arrival of
tourist in summer season, area looks overcrowded an a lots of transport can be seen.
Walkways and service roads are always occupied.
The first place
which we visited was Crystal Rock Hotel which is near the beach. It is also
showing wrong planning and lack of professional involvement because the hotel
design, shape colour and materials not match with Cyprus’s tradition, history and culture. The material which is used in hotel
is not suitable for Cyprus’s weather, culture and history. The design of hotel
, doesn’t have any meaning ,on the other hand ,there is a big problem in using
of landscape ,the parking area is not reasonable ,it is located between hotel
and beach and the people who are sitting in the balcony in restaurant ,they
have a bad view of parking .A big wall covers the beach view and it failed in
tourism.
The biggest mistake
is about the beach that they have made which is useless and they destroyed
rocky beach in order to build the sandy beach which just show the lack of the
developers’ knowledge from the beaches types. There is a wall between beach and parking area
that it has no meaning and it block the sea view. Another problem is garbage
area that is near the hotel and the pollution. Overall in this case, lack of
law and roles of coastal zone and lack of professional involvement are causes
to fail and waste of money and too negative impacts on environment and beach.If
it built thirty years ago,it was not a problem becauseof lack of tourism
awareness.Now in these 5-10 years planners should take care about design,structure and also should take care
about local material that matches to history of Cyprus.
The second
place was a dead hotel named Momozal and because of wrong planning , wrong
structural design, it is completely died and no one wants to rebuild/renew it because
it is costly. The image of this hotel completely destroyed the whole view of
left side beaches of salamis hotel and it is so ugly, and this building like
many other places in Cyprus waste too much money and resources and has negative
impact on surroundings. On a beautiful beach it is showing horrible design.
Buildings are constructed very near to beach. Tourist, in the evening cannot
sit in front of the beach because of intruded water.
The third place
was SALAMIS HOTEL which is designed without any knowledge and professional
background .we can see lack of professional plan in design of building which
after 4 o’clock, it causes to create a big shadow and cover the beach and make
it useless .on the other hand in high season, we face with limited beaches area
and is not good because the tourists have to move and use other beaches area. As
we know land is the main resource and if we do make our place sustainable, we
lose the value of land and it makes a lots of problems for now and future.
Aloong with the
beach ,away from Momozal Hotel there is a camping ground.Now its aplace of
gypsies and no body take care about this area.A lots of pollution van be seen
in surrounding area that destroys whole beautiful view of the sea.They never
ask professionals or architechtures to develop a proper design that could be
beneficial beach.
The last place
was Sky Venus Beach Hotel which shows the lack of management and master plan-no
intervene-no tourist attraction, in this place ,the wrong design is started
from the entrance which does not have any meaning and any characteristic ,the
surrounding is not clear and it is not suitable for hotel .when we look at the
building ,we can see the wrong structure and wrong design which is
unprofessional and it shows that there is no knowledge background .the building
is ugly and huge..This building doesn’t have any concept or meaning, Its look
like that it was built for imprison the enemies or for artillery that involve
in war. The design of building is looking horrible. We can
see how much money has been wasted. After many times reselling ,finally it is
changed to dormitory for university.
Conclusion
Overall, it’s
clear that lack of planning, no interest from government, no implementation of law effect in negative way and destroyed
because of some people’s benefit . Sustainability is an important issue that we
have to pay attention and if we use a group of community and stakeholders to
encourage them to invest in tourism in correct way and make a good relationship
with government and encourage people to understand the benefit of sustainability.
We can prepare a comprehensive plan to prevent the issues and wasting of
natural beauty
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