Impact of Cruise Tourism
The Caribbean tourism industry has faced a constant growth. In less than 50 years it has become one of the premier tourist attractions destinations on the planet. Tourism has therefore provided nearly two million jobs in the region. According to statistical data from the Caribbean Tourism and Organization (CTO) estimates the number of tourism destinations in the Caribbean region in 2003 to be around 17.1 million. Which is definitely a positive amount compared to the amount in 2001. The tourism industry faced a decline during the 9/11 terrorist attack, Iraqi war and the hurricanes in the region but faced an increasing growth again afterwards because of the Caribbean development Bank's economic review for 2005 further
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The main advantage is the improvement in infrastructure, public facilities, and the general increase in the government revenues through taxes. This is the positive economic impact of any tourist activity on the economy and the country as a whole. The case for cruise industry tourist is not extraordinary (Papathanassis, Lukovic, and Vogel, 2012).
Tourism is a factor that contributes to the improvement in the standards of living among the residents of the regions cited to be tourist destinations. Tourism leads to the creation of job opportunity, improvement in the level of development and infrastructural expense. Developed and developing countries where tourism activities are more pronounced is likely to rise due to a high level of employment. According to other studies by Sharma, the levels of benefits obtained in the two categories of countries vary (Dowling, 2006). The related opportunities and the positive impacts associated with tourism have persuaded cruise industry to increase their expenditures in order to boost the local economy. Opportunities presented by venturing into cruising are believed by many communities to be a way of solving economic problems. On the other hand, tourism has also contributed to negative economic impact to the residents in the Caribbean
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The size of the destinations is directly linked to the effects of cruise activities. Smaller host destinations are able to concentrate their services on luxurious vessels. Cruise ships are faced with competition from other forms of the tourism industry. Other industries that are directly linked with the tourist activities include the hotel and accommodation, which provides food and beverages, attractions and tour operators. The level of competition in these industries on the destination areas is intensified. It leads to a struggle for customers on land tourist, air and from cruise passengers. Cruise ships face a lot of competition majorly from land-based resorts. There is also the issue of changes in a season where some are characterized as peak and others depressions. The strangest thing in cruising industry is coming off the peak at the same time, which is possible within a port. In the case of Costa Rica, there is a direct competition due to the occurrence of peak season for both cruise tourism and other forms to obtain touristic goods. For cruise ships, they have a considerable advantage since they offer floating hotels and accommodation facilities to their passengers making the best substitute for air tourism. On the contrary, port hotels and accommodation are disadvantaged. This is because some of the passengers would prefer being in the ships other than the destination visited.
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Tourism is considered as one of the main sources of revenue for Cuba. Every year Cuba attracts over 2 million people. This island is home to beautiful beaches and colonial architecture.
Pattullo report gives a first-hand account as to who controls each segment of the tourism industry; the tour operations, the large hotel chains, and the airline companies. The Caribbean’s economy depends on an industry that is mostly foreign-owned and controlled and the people who live there do not have an opportunity of owning or investing in it. In Pattullo’s report, it reveals that the large travel industry corporations are the ones who have most of the control. But those corporations are not located there. Her report exposes that the true benefiters of tourism in the Caribbean are foreign-owned investors and corporations.
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Tourism impacts can be generally classified into seven categories with each having both positive and negative impacts. These impacts include; economic, environmental, social and cultural, crowding and congestion, taxes, and community attitude. It is essential for a balance on array of impacts that may either positively or negatively affect the resident communities. Different groups are concerned about different tourism impacts that affect them in one way or another. Tourism’s benefits can be increased by use of specific plans and actions. These can also lead to decrease in the gravity of negative impacts. Communities will not experience every impact but instead this will depend on particular natural resources, development, or spatial patterns (Glen 1999).
The Hospitality and Tourism sector is characterized as the fastest growing sector in Jamaica. Many tourists from all over the world travel each year because of the country’s beaches, culture, climate and landscape. Despite the contribution of other sectors the Hospitality and Tourism is still the giant industry that contributes largely to Jamaica market share. In this paper, we will call the Hotel that I am employed ‘Hotel A’ for privacy reasons. Hotel A was formed in 1981and has developed to be one of the largest all-inclusive resorts in the country, tackling all factors that impact on its overall success. Some of these factors are political, economic, social, technological environmental and legal factors called the PESTEL framework. “A
It is the economic effects of tourism which bring the most benefit to the host nation. Tourism is a low import user which means more of the money earned here stays here. The government is earning money through tourist taxes such as the airport tax, increased export earnings and income tax revenue from people employed by the industry. A balance must be struck between these benefits and associated negative impacts on the community and the environment.
Even though the global recession was impactful, tourism has sustained growth by at minimum 4% annually; tourism accounts for 25 percent of Jamaican employment and is 10% of the GDP (Jamaica-travel-secrets.com, 2014). Foreign tourist patrons however are threatening the Jamaican ecosystem with its income dependent activities such as pollution, tailored division of labor, and costal development. These environmental conditions will eventually take a negative sway in the tourism industry because travelers will no longer desire a destination with high pollution or they will be compelled to pay even less to come to the country which ultimately will affect the Jamaican economy
Fletcher’s article helps to provide more of an insight on why these Caribbean countries rely on the tourism industry, giving a greater perspective of the workings of capitalism as in order to survive it must continually grow. While it is important to note that looking at one small area in the Caribbean and its impact on the tourism industry, cannot lead me to draw any general conclusions– as not every Caribbean country will react to the tourism industry in the same way - the study discussed on Jamaica’s Ocho Rios still can provide perspective as to how this heavy reliance on the tourism industry can affect the social, cultural, environmental, and economic standing within such countries. Further research must be conducted on all different effects and within tourist sites in order to come to a general conclusion. Many researchers have offered frameworks on how to prevent such negative impacts from occurring, and this can be helpful for the future of this fast-growing industry. As a person who has travelled to the Caribbean quite frequently (as I have family members who reside in Barbados), because I stay with family members and thus can see the island from a local perspective, I have witnessed first hand the small ways in which the tourism industry affects a big Caribbean tourist destination such as Barbados; not just with those deemed as outsiders with the tourism industry, but those working within it.
Tourism is often associated with traveling to places away from home. Tourism has a big impact on the economic growth of some countries, which define the shape of their cities by producing different sectors like historic districts, convention centers, museums, malls, hotels, restaurants, and the list can be endless. Furthermore, tourism elements have been developed by cities for a variety of reasons including: situating themselves in the world by drawing a positive image and attracting visitors and for their money.
Barbados previously dabbled in the mass-tourism industry, but currently primarily offers a more up-market and luxury product. The success of tourism was traditionally measured in percentage annual increase of arrivals, however this type of measurement ignores important variables such as length of stay or visitor expenditure and seasonal variations. This fa...
This essay is the respond to the Local Council Member who has wrong idea about a common archetype of adventure tourist. This misconception based on ignorance of current tourism industry, could potentially be a dangerous for local economy and development. The local authority must be well informed about present conditions with the tourism market, before they will make a far reaching decisions about the development direction in this industry. Currently, there are many organisations whose monitoring an international tourism business and this knowledge supposed to be good use for our common good.
There are about 70% of our earth is covered by water, and people just know a little part of it now. Underwater tourism is an excitement and adventure, and it is also a special tourism concept. The undersea world attracts people to explore the mysterious of the ocean, and the underwater tourism is growing very fast basic on the new technology. Travelers can join this tourism by many different methods, such as underwater restaurant, underwater hotel and underwater activity. There are many travelers will try to have the experience of underwater tourism and spend a lots of many for that. Travelers
Nowadays in the rea of globalization, according to the World Tourism Organization, “seven hundred million people travelled abroad in 2003”, and the number is estimated to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. (International Labour Organization, 2005). Tourism is spreading in unusual places. A lot of people want to be in the midst of adventure. It is a vital source of revenues for the GDP of many countries. I partially agree that tourism hugely benefits the local community. This essay will discuss some of the economic, social and environment effect of tourism on the host community.
Wow! I am really going on a cruise today. When I get all my things together at my house I hit the road and drive to our destination.When I arrive to my destination, there is very many people there,and very enormous cruise ships beside me. I walk around for a little while until they tell me to get ready to border the ship. It takes me a while until I reach the entrance to the cruise. When I get closer it gets bigger and bigger and it blocks off the sun from me. When I look up to the entrance the door rises down and everyone hurries in so they can get in their room and I do the same. I finally reach the top and I go inside and it is very magical and wonderful.
Tourism's economic benefits are advertised by the industry for a sum of reasons. The idea of tourism's economic significance gives the industry a much greater respect among the business municipal, public officials, and the public in general. This often translates into decisions to tourism.