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. Firstly, tourism has positive and negative impact on the economy of the local community. It can create jobs and mitigate the numbers of unemployment. For example: one …show more content…
We talked about the first type which is the economic effect on the local community and the second type that is the social effect on the host community. In this part of our essay we will represent the last kind of effect on the local community by tourism. It is the environment effect on the local community. Tourism has positive and negative aspects in term of its impact on the host community. First point, tourism can help to protect the environment through reinvest some of profits, that generated by tourism, to the preservation of local environment and make it popular destination for holidays. However, it can cause pollution and damage in the environment through overuse of natural resources, such as water supply, beaches and coral reef. It also account for increased pollution through traffic emissions and littering. Additionally, tourist accommodations in general dump waste and sewage into seas and rivers. Second point, it might reduce some problems such as over-fishing by creating another source of employment. According to Tourism Concern, tourism account for more than eight per cent of jobs in the world wide and there are approximately two hundred million people work in the tourism sector on all sides of the world. (Tourism Concern, 2004). As a result a lot of people will abandon works in fishing and deforestations and tend to works in tourism industrialization. On the adverse side, it can harm the environment through polish off grass cover, harmful to wildlife and forests and grave local habitats. (BBC,
One of the key elements of tourism is the quality of the environment, both natural and man-made. Tourism however, can have a negative effect on the environment due to people not caring for the environment because it is not an area where they normally reside, so they do not consider what long-term effects that their temporary actions may have. Tourism that is not regulated or controlled can lead to negative environmental impacts on air, water, soil, vegetation, and wildlife quality and sustainability.
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 article starts with the usual style introduction and rationale for the study. Then the literature review begin with the theory of Doxey (1976) who introduce the Irridex model which suggest that the residents attitudes towards the tourism development will pass through the different stages including ‘ Euphoria’, ‘Apathy’, ‘Irritation’ and ‘ ‘Antagonism’(Wang, 2006 p: 412). He supports Harril (2004) who says that there is not enough study conducted on the proposed tourism to find the residents attitudes. Instead of that the researches are takes place on the established tourisms. Keogh(1990), Jhonson et.al (1994), Hernandez et. Al (1996) and Cheyne (2000) are shown as the literatures rose about the attitudes of residents towards the future tourism operations and they all listed certain positive a...
Particularly, there is a lack of protection and controlling measures to core tourism resources such as coral reefs and forest areas, leading to some degradation such as coral removal or trampling of natural areas. As these resources are “common pool resources”, there exists the tragedy of commons when everyone try to harvest these resources as much as they can before everyone else does (Holden, 2016). Heaving relying on natural environment for tourism products, it is critical that Tourism Town should control the negative impacts of tourism on the environment for the sustainability of the industry. Thus, it is recommended that Tourism Town government put in place regulatory measures such as entry fees and permit. Delicate areas charge an entry fee on tourists to support conservation and operators need to acquire permit to operators in these areas which requires them to meet certain environmental standards and pay a fee (Eagles, McCool, Haynes, Phillips & UNEP, 2012). This would in return contribute government revenues (Eagles et al., 2012) to support
In an article titled Positive & Negative Effects of Tourism, author Carole Simm looks at the positive effects of tourism economically, socially and environmentally.
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 book is written by three authors, Martin Mowforth, Clive Charlton and Ian Munt. Martin Mowforth is a part timer lecturer while Clive Charlton is a principal lecturer and helps to solve the problems of environment, transport, tourism and development. Ian Munt is a consultant and worked on various types of projects over the world. The book is published on year 2008, with the title of “Tourism and Responsibility” which focuses on the nature, ecotourism and ‘sustainability’ upon the recognition of the social dimension of tourism. Besides, the book mentioned the responsibility and the activities occurred in Latin America and Caribbean. The issues happened in the country also discussed in the book such as the problem of the poverty. Authors also
AMITY INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL TERM PAPER ON MANAGING DIVERISTY IN TOURISM INDUSTRY SUBMITTED TO: SUBMITTED BY: RICHA GOEL ABHIMANYU MALIK FACULTY GUIDE BBA-IB 2014-2017 A1833314049. DECLARATION I, Abhimanyu Malik, hereby declare that the term paper report entitled “MANAGING DIVERSITY IN TOURISM INDUSTRY” that I have submitted is original. I was regularly in contact with the nominated guide for the discussion of the project report. DATE OF PROJECT SUBMISSION:.
There are many disciplines within the world of academia and each plays an important role in the research community. Every discipline is important because each provides a unique perspective and approach to a single field of study. For this project I have chosen to study the topic of Tourism via the perspectives of the field of Economics and the field of Psychology. Economists focuses on understanding how societies and the world as a whole works to allocate resources to satisfy their needs and wants. On the other hand, Psychology focuses on the understanding of theories that explain and predict the behaviors of humans and other living creatures. I chose these two distinct fields because they each have unique goals when it comes to researching
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.
Tourism is the one of economic and social activities that increasingly vital. Number of travellers domestic and international is increasing. In fact, several countries in present world develop tourism sectors as primary sector which generate national income. According to Salah Wahab and Cooper (2003). Tourism is also sector which involves role that mutually link between government, private sector and also public.
It is understand that the resorts are fully equipped which primary function is used by a corporate clientele for meetings and to visitors who are interested in nature, adventure and other outdoor pursuits. Therefore, such a huge number of visitors may overexploit natural resources and have a heavy impact on the environment. In addition, there will be environmental distortion and pollutions when there are overuse of infrastructure, transportation and other facilities. There is a serious problem for environmental issues when the unhygienic disposal of human waste, discharge of wastes and littering into water sources which is very important for agriculture will cause severe environmental pollutions due to irresponsible attitudes of tourists during tourism activities such as trekking and camping. Without strict regulations on appropriate land use, high-rise buildings such as tourist hotels, and the overwhelming number of tourists, have resulted in congestion and spoiled much of the local
The locals can also benefit from the improvement on the infrastructures and new amenities from tourism. Tourism also promotes the preservation of local traditional customs and handiwork; interchanges between locals and tourist will create a better cultures understanding; tourist visiting that area can affect the quality of life for the locals for example the use of drugs, alcohol, overcrowding and increased crime rates. (Korstanje et al., Jan 2012). Unlike mass tourism, eco-tourism can benefit from the environmental factor which helps to promote the conservation of the local wildlife and natural resource. Mass tourism has brought on some undesirable effects, the loss of
...es of O.D and I.W.P has contributed more in the upliftment of living standards of the local communities through infrastructural development, creation of job opportunities and it created sense of pride in local culture. Tourism development in both destinations has made local people to be aware of the sustainable ways of development and the sustainable ways of using local resources more wisely. The implementation of CBNRM and community-based projects has been a driving force towards the application of sustainability principles of every aspect in both destinations. Although it also known that not every projects imposed by tourism destinations becomes a success, therefore there were some failures or some negatives on the ‘environmental impacts’ part of the destinations but it also of greater significance that those negative impacts are well monitored and controlled.
Define tourism in your own words. Critically assess the negative impacts of tourism and the way forward in the 21st century.