Tourism is something that has continuously been growing at a rapid rate, providing both positive impacts as well as negative. There are so many different reasons why people decide to travel to certain destinations, and a person’s character plays a huge role in this. Certain types of tourism would include, dark tourism, adventure, culinary, and ecotourism to name a few. One type of tourism that has become increasingly popular is volunteering tourism. “Volunteer tourism, sometimes called "voluntourism," refers to the practice of spending vacation time and money traveling to a destination to perform volunteer service. While people have engaged in the practice of paying their way to help in another area for many years, the concept grew in …show more content…
If we consider first the social impacts that volunteer tourism can have on the children of destinations and the host community. We already looked at the problem of people coming and going and the effect that it can have on the children, and how the people in the community can become too dependent on volunteers and not necessarily learn the skills to further develop their community. There are certain steps that can be taken to improve the impact that volunteer tourists have and make it more sustainable. One way that these volunteers can positively contribute to the social aspect, is by spending time with the local people and teach them skills that they can use to survive and make a living. The people who run the orphanages can limit the amount of people coming and going, and only allow people who are planning to stay for a substantial amount of time to volunteer, thereby limiting the constant disruption of the children’s lives. To make the environmental impact that the volunteer tourists create more sustainable, it would be better to let the tourists spend money in the town helping out the economy and growing the small businesses, as well as helping build infrastructure free of charge. There would also be the fact that the tourists should be more aware and careful of the impact they have on the local environment. They should come to volunteer and not expect to have the same accommodations that they have at their home, they should live in the local community and partake in the local events and ways of living, by eating the same food and not wasting the communities’ recourses on extravagant luxuries. “To boost tourism huge money is invested to preserve the local heritage, to improve infrastructure, to provide better local facilities which in turn creates better education, better leisure
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).
I started volunteering nine years ago. Once a week for two years, my mother, my sister, and I volunteered at an organization that helps the unprivileged. When I entered high school I started volunteering for credits. But it wasn’t until five months ago that I realized the impact of volunteerism. It took me eight years and seven months.
‘Voluntourism’ has become a popular extracurricular activity for many Americans, especially students. It promises the opportunity to make a positive impact on a poor, underdeveloped nation by flying to work at an orphanage or to build something in the community such as a library or school in just a week or two. Unfortunately, the selfless act of volunteering paired with exotic locations like Ethiopia or Tanzania prove to be an effective photo shoot for wealthy students who will then highlight their week of goodwill on Tinder and Instagram.
The tourism industry plays a major role in the development of culture within the Europe and the Americas, specifically the Caribbean nations. Tourism has become a major source of governmental income, employment, community development, wildlife preservation, and ultimately the rise in GDP of these countries. There are three types of tourism: domestic tourism, inbound tourism and outbound tourism. Domestic tourism is one that travels within their own country for an extended period of time at least 24 hours. In bound tourism is when a non resident of a given country travels outside of their normal environment and makes an impact of the receiving country. Lastly, outbound tourism, is when a tourist leaves their own country to visit another one. Each form of tourism has a different impact of the
Visiting Friends and Relatives tourism is mainly discussed and linked to one of the major motivations of travel- pleasure and business. Tourists who are usually involved this form of tourism regard themselves as ‘pleasure’ or ‘vacation tourists’ (Griffin, 2014). The concept of VFR travel is sometimes referred to as ‘ethnic tourism (Jackson, 1990; Morrison et al., 2000; Feng and Page, 2002; Hu and Morrison, 2002; Butler, 2003, Poet et al., 2004; Barnett et al., 2010). Since VFR travellers involved in different activities when they visit their original place of stay, a feeling of nostalgia can lead them to travel and connect with the part and for this reason why VFR travel is linked to ethnic tourism. It is crucial to understand the VFR travel
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...
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 authority in indigent community would have to use the investment of tourists to create jobs, and improve public facilities for its citizen to use; I mean we should have volunteerism established first; then, we can think of doing voluntourism. Voluntourism is definitely not harmful if the tourists has professionalism, or is committed to long time project, making volunteer more meaningful.
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
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,
Ecotourism adds significant positive contributions in the way people are informed/ educated about the environmental they are vacationing at. This may deal with learning about the wildlife or experiencing the local culture. On top of that individuals are able to appropriate the culture correctly or being able to experience the wildlife in a safely manner. People that take these tours are going into areas that can be considered endangered or unsafe, due to pervious perceptions. However, with these tours these stereotypes/ views of the geographic location and customs of the land. These tours also protect the environment, because money goes into the land to keep the infrastructure safe and nice. Another advantage is that eco-tourism
"…brings into contact people from different nations, socioeconomic classes, and ethnicities." (p. 2) As such, the authors argue that historical studies of tourism reveal human interaction that is "both pleasurable and profitable as well as exploitative and depleting."
Based on McIntosh and friends (1995) tourism is a phenomenon and relationship that exists due to interaction between tourist, businessman, government and community as the host in process attract tourist and foreign tourism. Indirectly, this definition clarified tourism is visit or travel to another place within yesterday, aimed amused, rested, traded and so on. In fact, there are four key that related in
In the more economically developed countries (MEDCs), synonymous mainly with the industrialised countries of the northern hemisphere there, has been an explosion in the growth of leisure and tourism industry, which is now believed to be the worlds second largest industry in terms of money generated. In order to differentiate between leisure and tourism it should be recognised that leisure often involves activities enjoyed during an individual’s free time, whereas tourism commonly refers to organised touring undertaken on a commercial basis. Development in the two areas could be attributed to changing patterns in working lives within the last four decades. Generally, people now have more disposable wealth, work shorter hours, receive longer, paid annual leave, retire earlier and have greater personal mobility. In addition, according to Marshall & Wood (1995), the growth of the tourist industry per se can be associated, in part, with the concentration of capital; the emergence of diversified leisure based companies, sometimes within wider corporate conglomerates and often associated with particular airlines. Furthermore, the development of tourism can generate employment both directly, in jobs created in the hotels, restaurants etc, and indirectly, through expenditure on goods and services in the local area. Nevertheless, although the tourist industry is competitive, which essentially keeps down the cost of foreign travel, the success of tourism in any one area can be ‘influenced by weather, changing consumer tastes, demographics, economic cycles, government policy, not to mention international terrorism and other forms of conflict.’(1) Although such factors may have a detrimental affect on the economy of a popular tourist destination (or even tourism in general, in light of September 11th 2001), the consequence of tourism in general is often three fold: environmental, social and cultural, which in turn has prompted a search for new ‘friendly’ approaches that are less destructive.
Travelling is going from one place to another might it be by land, air or ocean. Due to technology advancement and globalization, the demand for travelling increases as it becomes a requisite to earn for some people and for business expansion. People often travel for pleasure, relaxation, business, and even for education and health purposes. As a result, tourism and demands for air transportation grow rapidly. This growth sees by different airlines as an opportunity to put up business in the Philippines and targeted a big size of market which are Filipinos. Airlines segmented its market into domestic/national or international flights, three general classes of flights; economic, business and first classes, and age.