Bhutan removed its self-imposed isolation policy in the 1970s. Since then, Bhutan has been drawing a lot of international attention and interest. Besides this, Bhutan has become one of the main tourist destinations in the world. This is because of the diverse biodiversity, unique culture and traditions. Given these unique features, Bhutan has the opportunity to commercialize the tourism industry. Therefore, instead of banning tourism, it should be regulated as it helps to generate revenues and foreign currency for development, to preserve and renovate the cultural sites, to create job opportunities, and to improve the living standards of local communities.
First, tourism in Bhutan generates revenues and foreign currencies for socio-economic
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The tourism industry requires a great deal of labour to operate tourism, so it creates job opportunities. This ensures improved living standards of the Bhutanese people. “Tourism increases employment opportunities. Additional jobs, ranging from low-wage entry-level to high-paying professional positions in management and technical fields, generate income and raise standards of living” (Kreag, 2001, p. 6). The most prominent feature of developing countries is the unemployment issue. This issue creates tension between the government and youths. It results in committing of crimes by youths. “The tourism industry is highly labor intensive service industry and hence, it is a valuable source of employment” (Zaei, 2013, p. 17). The tourism industry can provide employment opportunities to a large number of Bhutanese youth. Therefore, youth-associated problems can be reduced. Since the employees involved are youths, tourism makes youth aware about the ancestral culture and heritages that further encourages the conservation and preservation of cultures. The majority of the present generation youth are not aware of the unique culture and diverse biodiversity of the country. In the tourism industry, a tourist guide should have a good knowledge of tourist sites and should know the details about the cultures and tradition. Besides this, since cultural knowledge and tradition are passed to the next generation orally, the Bhutanese youth will become interested in learning them. Therefore, tourism is a valuable source for
The most important aspect of tourism development is to bring in the necessary behavioral and attitudinal change in the society to make it tourist friendly and create a strong receptive atmosphere. People’s participation through Panchayati Raj Institutions, Urban Local Bodies, Co-Ops and NGOs shall be encouraged for development of tourism and to create public awareness to achieve a broader goal of high quality tourist services. 7. A mechanism should be in place to register travel agent at local level for the tourist .So that they will get a genuine travel service to visit different places in day time .The
This essay examines the tourist’s responsibility in Nepal. Nepal is known as a suitable place to promote tourism for trekking as well as culture based activities and the aim of this essay is to review and understand not only how unsustainable Nepal has become as a destination but to review the tourists point of view from that destination.
By restricting access, it may hurt the economy of surrounding areas and cause resistance with tour operators. Tour operators may place the responsibility solely upon the Nepal Government by emphasizing the economic and employment efforts evident that they, as businesses, are taking care of what they see as they’re responsibility (Hall & Lew, 2009). However, tour operators as stakeholders themselves must accept higher responsibility and actively work with government agencies for the strategic plans and policies to be effective. Whether knowingly or not, individual tourists are causing damage to resources they’re consuming, as stakeholders they have responsibility for the impacts of their purchasing decisions (Hall & Lew, 2009). I would recommend that the Nepal Government implement tighter permit restrictions, including how many issued per annum as well as limit of person per permit.
Modernization and development of the nation since 1960s has affected Bhutanese people in maintaining the unique traditions and culture, which are main components in defining the sovereignty and identity of a nation. If one compares the loss of traditional values in Bhutanese environment, most people will agree that in urban centres greater adversities are confronted due to social and economical pressures, stemming from modernization. The essay will attempt to describe and explain the situation how modernization has affected the traditional values and customs particularly in terms of modern technologies, dresses, languages, religions, music and games while improving way of live, in certain section of society. 105
Domestic tourism development is generally taking place without any systematic government planning in almost all developing countries. This is because the significant number of tourists will demand for facilities and services when they travel for leisure within their own country. This process is then coped in an ad-hoc manner by having tourism policies implemented in a much unplanned fashion. With the private investments that are made in this sector, they tend to be short termed and motivated by quick profit-
Since decades, tourism has encountered with development and extending expansion to turn into one of the quickest developing monetary segments on the planet. Tourism attains a blending of individuals from differing social and social foundations both universally and domestically. A vast spatial redistribution of using force has huge effect on the economy of the end spectrum. Tourism has turned into a blooming worldwide industry with the ability to shape creating nations in both positive and negative ways. Worldwide tourism positions fourth in the worldwide economy. It reports for one-third of the outside trade profit of India furthermore beneficially utilizes the effortlessly the most astounding number of individuals contrasted with different parts.
He write “Adventure Tourists – that’s those young people who come with back packs, take selfies all over the place, and talk loudly about how ‘awesome’ they are in the bar, isn’t it? “. (Local Council Member: 1). Author of this reasoning show unknowingness of a basic idea of who is the Adventure Tourist. Research conducted in 2014 by The Adventure Tourism Trade Association, demonstrate that global average age of Adventure Tourism customer is 48. (ATTA, Industry Snapshot) This information prove that not only young people are adventure tourist, furthermore they are the minority. Next words of Local Council Member who suggest that this kind of tourist don’t have a jobs, are again the falsehood. According to ATTA, the average global trip price per day is 477 US Dollars, this statistic indicates that customers of this niche of tourism definitely have a financial resources to pay for their active holidays. There is no research about employment of average adventure tourist, but it can be assumed that most of them earn their money at some kind of work. Local Council Member said that in his opinion this part of industry not bringing much money in. As stated in UNWTOs “Global Report on Adventure Tourism” in comparison, on a global level, non-adventure tourists spend about 500 US Dollars per person per holiday, this is about 40% less than the amount spent by adventure tourists. What is more in mass tourism, approximately four-fifths of the revenue from a trip goes to airlines, hotels and other international companies. In contrast, in adventure tourism, quarter of the revenue goes to local communities. This means that this niche brings more money than ordinary kind of tourism and is more beneficial to local
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.
Anthropology and Tourism: A Sociological Comparison There are multiple similarities and differences between anthropology and tourism. Similar because they both involve observing the culture of another society, but different in how it is conducted and how it can affect people. Anthropology is meant to be respectful, ask for permission, and make sure that there is no obstruction of boundaries. The main goal of anthropology is to research and understand the way people do things and how the society works. Tourism, on the other hand, can be seen as obtrusive and offensive to the host’s culture.
Half of century has gone since ‘tourism boom’ began in 1960s (Tirados, 2011). Nowadays, desire to be a tourist is virtually universe which has made tourism become a central element of globalization. The profit brought from tourism is something that we cannot deny however everything has its two sides which are good and bad, advantages and disadvantages or positive and negative. Thailand is a great example to find out the advantages and disadvantages of the development of tourism impact on the country.
Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia. Consists of more than 18,000 islands, Indonesia provides a beautiful views, cultures, and tourist resort. The capital of Indonesia and the largest city is Jakarta, located in Java Island. The Indonesian’s currency is rupiah. Indonesia is a republic country, and the government system is democracy Absolutely, Indonesia also have a lot of tribes with different languages and religion. Indonesia got the freedom from the Netherlands in 1942, and Japan in 1945.
Tourism is an important and intricate element to society. It affects economical, social, cultural and environmental elements. Tourism can be argued to have a negative impact on the environment and decrease our already depleting resources, but tourism can also be argued to be a major contributor to strengthening economies, spread cultural traditions and improve people’s lives. Tourism
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.
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.
At the present time, one of the inseparable parts of the economic growth is considered as tourism industry. Commonly, tourism is the movement of people to other places for business or leisure purposes as well as covers their activities. Holloway and Humphreys defines that the places where tourists come and spend their money are called as “tourist destinations” in other words “receiving areas”. Many countries have been improving tourism to overcome economic difficulties since it is growing fast. The industry activities have been demonstrated a general positive trend in the economy and it has already become the inherent part of economic development. In host countries, tourism has led to such positive consequences as the improved infrastructure,