The Philippines is endowed with abundant natural resources and one of the world’s richest diversity of fertile lands; flora and fauna; heart seizing scenic beauty; diverse culture; indigenous etiquette. A country blessed with astonishing natural environment along with the country’s hospitable and pleasant people has made it one of the major tourist destinations around the world. Tourism is one of the major contributor to the economy of the Philippines. Its beaches, mountains and rainforest are among the country’s natural tourist destinations. Aside from these, its rich historical heritage, diverse culture and traditions, festivals and celebrations, native foods and delicacies are endemic additions to the Philippines’s tourist captures.
Recently, climate change has narrowed down the potentials for tourism and declined agricultural activities which resulted to a major economic problem. Though significant attractions and destinations are still operating and being patronized by foreign and local tourists, the potential of the Philippines’ natural wonders and rich
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A place for employment of local farmers in Cavite. A place designed appropriate for the climate, minimal environmental impacts, eco-friendly, and are healthy and comfortable for users. The project promotes the indigeneity of the Philippine culture associated with nature, sports and recreation. It highlights activities that Filipinos are fond and passionate about – food, festivals and family gatherings. It also offers relaxation therapies such as the original Filipino spa & pampering, which includes body therapies and skin care. One good example is the traditional Filipino “healing” massage or touch therapy called Hilot. It also seeks to relive the old days with traditional Filipino celebrations accompanied by a sumptuous native delicacy served in a real festival style. Thus, it advocates beauty of Philippine culture and promotes employment through
Puerto Rico was not always the tropical tourist destination it is today. Initially, it was a rural island with little to no modern amenities, and a severely impoverished population. Th...
Fortunately, the executive chefs behind Manila’s top hotels and restaurants are well aware of this situation. These decision-makers believe that they can help with the plight of fishing communities and the ocean, while also pleasing their valued customers, by shifting towards sustainable sources of seafood. Last year at the Marriott Hotel Manila, these chefs and representatives from
In her essay, “Last Resorts: The Cost of Tourism in the Caribbean”, journalist Polly Pattullo presents an inside view of the resort industry in the Caribbean Islands, and how it truly operates. Tourism is the main industry of the Caribbean, formerly referred to as the West Indies, and it is the major part of the economy there. Pattullo’s essay mirrors the ideas of Trevor M.A. Farrell’s perspective “Decolonization in the English-Speaking Caribbean” in which he writes about the implicit meaning of the colonial condition. Pattollo’s essay illustrates that colonialism is present in the Caribbean tourism industry by comparing the meaning of it presented in Farrell’s perspective. In this essay I will explain how these two essays explain how decolonization hardly exists in the Caribbean.
Global warming and the trend towards warmer weather might cause a shift in the attractiveness of tourist destinations around the globe.
...ourism, and the unpredictable nature means tourism can decline at any time (Williams, 2004). This in the form of destination popularity trends such as party towns [Ibiza, Magaluf, Kos, Aiya Napa]. The Cyprus tourism industry has highlighted the need in their policies to involve additional diversified quality products, such as development of marine tourism, and highlighting sport tourism in an attempt to stay ahead of competition (Andronikou, 1986) due to destinations being harmed mostly by competition of similar destinations (Henderson,2007). Also economic crises, such as the recession in 2008 causing decline in tourism (Henderson, 2007), the 2002 Bali terrorist attacks causing a 60% drop between October and November 2002 (Bareham, 2004:160), and natural disasters such as the recent 2013 Philippines typhoon, which has left 3% of the country in ruins. They are urging
The first inhabitants of the Philippines arrived from the land bridge from Asia over 150,000 years ago. Throughout the years, migrants from Indonesia, Malaysia, and other parts of Asia made their way to the islands of this country. In the fourteenth century, the Arabs arrived and soon began a long tradition of Islam. Many Muslims are still living in the Philippines today.
The essay will also review the impact of global warming and community of Nations on tourism and how the changing weather patterns have impacted on the tourism trends from the human perspective as well as from the flora and fauna perspective. This will show how global warming has affected the community and nations negatively and what measures should be taken to stop global warming.
Tourism is playing an important role in the economy of a country as well as now, these days it is growing in European countries and increasing the economy of European economy and world economy. As a result the living standard of people rise, an increasing proportion of income is spent on leisure travel and other elements
With the development of transportation and the acceleration of globalisation, tourism has become an important means to stimulate economic growth. According to the world tourism organisation (UNWTO), tourism has become the world’s fastest and largest economic sector. Moreover, international tourists have increase dramatically from near 25 million in 1950 to 996 million in 2011(Chang et al., 2014). However this figures have put high stress on not only environment but also on society and economy for the local areas.
Commonly known, slum-tourism in Manila highlights things like crime, reclaimed areas filled with garbage, lack of education, and vulnerable children. These circumstances prove that there can still be simplicity and satisfaction in life, however, as demonstrated by how the BASECO kids choose to find contentment and happiness however and wherever they can.
Thailand, Indonesia, and Maldives were thriving developing countries from the economic support provided by the tourism industry. The white sand beaches and lush tropical greenery found on one island could be replaced with glorious mountains and waterfalls form a short boat ride to another island. Tourism flourished because of the many interesting physical characteristics of the area. According to the CIA World Fact Book, Thailand offered its many visitors peaceful democracy and a southern isthmus known to be always hot and humid (CIA World Fact Book). Maldives present...
When people travel to a destination, they sure have some motivation to motivate them to make the decision. ‘Motivation’ is the key term that will make the tourist to consider the reason to travel around. During the decision making process, people will consider some of the reasons before they confirm travel to a destination. The research that has conducted in The Netherland found out a remarkably high propensity to travel, 70% of the populations are taking one holiday per year and 24% was taking two holidays per year for holiday. Some of the people will affect their decision making by looking at destination image or some of the impact advertising. On the internet, business people will use image and advertising to attract tourist to travel to the destination by using image that they edit before. This is part of the marketing to promote their country to tourist. For family traveler, they will consider the distance and transportation travel to the destination. When go for travel, tourist will bring the whole family to travel. Then, they will consider old people who travel long journey are very hard for them. If one of the family members are senior citizen, they need to consider their healthy. Some of the senior citizen cannot take long journey, such as they have sickness. Bring children go for holiday also need to be consider. Some of the children will afraid of the highest in the plane, so they will feel uncomfortable. There is plenty of reason need to consider before making any decision to travel. For understanding tourist motivation and decision making is for two main reason, planning consideration and economic consideration. (Page & Connell, 2009) Before the tourist travel to a destination, they need to think about culture, climat...
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,
Manila is globally known as the capital of the Philippines. But behind all that formality Manila is a cultural and historical hub for locals and tourists alike. Since this city was heavily involved during the Spanish occupation and the liberation of the country, a lot of its history still lingers in the air. Nevertheless, one cannot simply arrive in Manila and say that it will be a breeze visiting all its must-see sites.
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