Sustainable Development & Planning: Related Issues to Tourism Development in Libya

The main objective of this paper is to critically review key issues in sustainable tourism planning with the hope of determining their relevance to countries seeking economic diversification. No doubt the experience of countries that have successfully developed their tourism will become useful to countries seeking to develop their tourism sector. Libya is one of such countries that seek economic diversification away from oil and exploit the huge and abundant natural resource endowments of coastlines, desserts, historical remains, which can be enhanced with man-made tourist infrastructures and effective planning. It is expected that Libya will benefit enormously from the experiences of other countries within and outside the Arab region in its quest for sustainable tourism development.