Introduction
In this essay the author will focus on socio-cultural impacts of the tourism development in Spain. Tourism industry is a highly profitable business (Wharton University, 2011); in some countries beach and sun are the primary attractions to their guests and making it as the tourism product may be one of the principal sector that contributes to the economy to that country. Whereas promoting a specific place as tourism product may bring some issues to the residents of tourist destinations. And this piece of work will discuss some impacts that Spain as a host country is facing with the development of tourism. World Travel and Tourism Council (2000) published a table that illustrated the contribution of tourism to national employment in some countries, in Spain travel and tourism contributed 8.3% of total, such numbers are to be considered as it shows a relevant impact on local employment. The aim of this essay is to investigate and discuss the positive and negative impacts of tourism.
The first part of the analysis will examine the negative socio-cultural impacts that the tourism development may bring to the host population. Tourism permits the interaction of different cultures which may occur when providing the tourism product, or also when the culture by itself it is what made the tourist or visitor to travel to a specific destination (Prayag, Ryan, 2012). Local communities are often considered as ‘victims’ of the social and cultural modifications that tourism brought. Specifically in the case of Spain, along with the tourism development some negative impacts surged to the societies, creating for example a sequence of stereotypes concepts (Printsevskaya, 2012). Tourism development associated with the extent of socio-c...
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...te to the job creation, rises in tax revenues and higher incomes that the visitors may bring to destination region. Tourism has transformed human relationships in a way of gain some economic profits (Kadt, 1979).
Conclusion
This piece of work examined the socio-cultural impacts of the tourism development in Spain by analysing and discussing the positive and negative effects. There are more about negative impacts in tourism literature than positive effects. This paper analysed the relationship between hosts and guests. And through the information collected the author could notice that the residents of popular destinations are those that probable may be affected most by the presence of tourists. In order to emphasise the collected data the author used some statistics related to Spain as a popular destination for those who wants sun and beach for their holiday.
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).
Festivals are connected to cultures and to places, giving each identity and helping bind people to their communities (Getz, 2010: 3), and provides an opportunity for community cultural development, which, like a sense of place, is nearly an invisible phenomenon (Derrett, 2003: 40). Ap and Crompton (1998) suggested that tourism is perceived to contribute changes in value systems, individual behavior, family relations, collective lifestyle, moral conduct and community organizations. These kind of social impacts maybe positive or negative. With the development of tourism, there might be changes in the social structure of the community.
The aim of this essay is to carefully examine the existing resources of tourism within the destination their potential and weakness, SWOT and PEST analysis, statistics of tourist visiting and comparing those numbers and their demographic factors so on. Moreover the objectives of this essay is to discuss and me...
An analysis of the effect tourism has had on regional Spain. Spain’s tourism industry has experienced exceptional growth since the first visitors arrived in San Sebastian in the early 1900’s (Barke et al. 1996). The 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the ' In the 1960’s, following their European counterparts, Spain launched a major promotional campaign attracting international visitors.
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.
The socio-cultural impacts of tourism described here are the effects on host communities of direct and indirect relations with tourists, and of interaction with the tourism industry. For a variety of reasons, host communities often are the weaker party in interactions with their guests and service providers, leveraging any influence they might have. These influences are not always apparent, as they are difficult to measure, depend on value judgments and are often indirect or hard to identify.
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.
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.
In case of the social factor, tourism forms bad conditions for the simple locals. They don’t get their right for using the land and attending some places, they suffer and live in really poor for them circumstances.
As well as its direct economic impacts, the sector also has significant indirect and induced impacts. Tourism has been source to remarkable in the increase of the National Gross Domestic Product as well as increases in employment creation. One of the most sensible and important impact of tourism on the economy is it increases the national gross domestic product, which is the broadest quantitative measure of a nation’s total economy activity. Precisely, it represents the monetary value of all goods and services produced within a nation’s geographic borders over s stipulated period of time. The tourism sector however on this aspect has been found increasing the National GDP as tourists tend to increase. Tourists trade with the service in monetary value and resultantly the GDP increases( traveltips, 2017).
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.
Tourism may be defined as the processes, activities, and outcomes arising from the relationships and the interactions among tourists, tourism suppliers, host governments, host communities, and surrounding environments that are involved in the attracting and hosting of visitors. According to UNESCO (2002), culture is defined as ‘the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group.’
Tourism is a typical activity of fashion that the public participate widely and it has grown in importance over recorded human history. Innumerable articles refer tourism as “the world’s largest industry”; policy-makers, analysts, and scholars often speak of the size of the tourism compared to that of other industries (Smith 2004: 26). These series of misleading statement, together with the mass media’s reports (out of context), make the idea that tourism is a single large industry branded into many people’s minds. However, in this essay I will demonstrate that it is a simplistic and misleading idea, which should be replaced by the plural term, “tourism industries”. Moreover, tourism is not the world’s largest industry, but largest service sector.
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.
According to many scholars of tourism (McNeely, 1998 and Mbaiwa, 2003), tourism is known as the largest growing industry globally, especially in the area of job creation, improve quality of life to host community and so on (Mochechela, 2010).Tourism is one of the largest industries where host resident can get the economic benefits as it has different sectors where both skilled and unskilled people can be employed. In the research on tourism impacts, the economic side of tourism is often noticed due to its positive impacts, while the negative aspects are from environmental and socio-cultural impacts. According Cooper et al (2008), a positive economic impact can directly bring benefits to communities therefore, it is also the major driver of tourism development. However, even though the economic benefits are popular with the tourism impact, the negative side still need to be taken with caution.