Alternative tourism also known as sustainable tourism is different from mass tourism as it establishes an equal balance between the environment, economic and the socio-cultural aspects of the tourism industry. Alternative tourism plays a vital role in the industry as it aids in the preservation of the local culture and conserving the flora and fauna of that place. Alternative tourism contributes to these various key variables which include generating income to improve the local economy and creating jobs opportunities, while it minimizing the impacts on the environment, such as conserving the local biodiversity and the local culture for the future generations. (WTO, Sept 2014). In this essay, it will point out the arguments and the key points
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
(Badariah Din et al., Nov 2014). The government has implanted some policies such as voice and accountabilities which measures the perception of which it’s country’s citizens participates in selecting the government, Political stability and the absence of violence which measures that the government would not be overthrown unconstitutional or violent ways, including politically-motivated violence and terrorism, Regulatory quality which measures the ability of the government to formulate and implement policies and regulation that permits and help to promote development in the private sectors, Government effectiveness measures the quality of the public and civil services and the level of independence from the pressure of politics, the quality of the formulation and implementation of policies and the credibility of the government to uphold such policies and the rule of law which agents have the confidence and abide the law set in place by the government. With better policies being set in place by the
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 SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN BOTH THE OKAVANGO DELTA (BOTSWANA) AND ISIMANGALISO WETLAND PARK.
Recently Tourism has been recognized as a major drive or a contributor to the economic growth and the development of any country, especially the less-developed and developing countries. Tourism plays an important role in the economy of the countries, be it less; developing and developed country. It contributes to the economy in many ways, for e.g. creates jobs, poverty reduction, backs to the GDP of a country, enhance multiplier effect and economic linkages, etc. (Vanegas and Croes, 2003:14). In this essay I am going to elaborate more on the importance of the tourism as a factor and contributor to the economic growth.
There is arising of concern for the need of conservation and the well-being of our environment is now firmly in the vision of the public. A corresponding upsurge in tourism all over the world leading to the phenomenon is happening and referred as ‘mass tourism’ (Krippendorf, 1987). In conjunction with this unparalleled growth of mass tourism as a user of the mother of nature, concern has been shown over the relationship of the natural environment with tourist activities (Hunter & Green, 1995). Therefore, ecotourism is emerging as one of the rapid growing tourism industry in this era.
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
Ecotourism has flourished over the last few years, despite its positive environmental and social impacts, it may transition to mass tourism if proper steps are not carried out legitimately. According to The International Ecotourism Society (1990), ecotourism is defined as responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people, that involves interpretation and education. Ecotourism is portrayed by natural and socio-cultural virtue, accountability and the conservative efforts of different stakeholders who implement, partake in and advertise ecotourism activities to be sustainable, such as the government, policy-makers, business sectors, the local people as well as tourists. This type of travel experience educate tourist regarding the exquisite natural and social environment through their senses, as well as the conservation awareness of the environment during their visits in a particular country, with the involvement of local tour guides and indigenous tribes in the area.
Firstly, tourism has posed several destructive effects on environmental structure of the host regions where operating activities of tourism take place. Undoubtedly, the constructions of facilities and infrastructures as well as heavy visitation resulted by tourism could partly destroy the environmental sites. According to Archer, Cooper and Ruhanne (2005), the uncontrolled tourism development has adulterated and debased the aesthetic value and uniqueness of the local environment by unsightly hotels and other unplanned constructions of facilities. Being agree with this negative impact, Seviour (2013) shows an example of the long line of high-rise hotels along the Jesolo beach in Italy that offend most of visitors by its mismatch with the natural surroundings. This situation is getting worse in developing countries where the integration between tourism infrastructures and its indigenous environmental structure not have been put into proper consideration. Tourism mismanagement, intentionally or unintentionally, has corrupted the harmony between humans and the environment. Fletcher (1993), however, suggests that tourism has generated greater motivation for host countries to protect and maintain their fragile environments such as forests, beaches and wildlife parks. The creation of the Amboseli National Park, for instance, was considered as the remarkable conservation effort brought by tourism in Kenya. After his research 10 years, unfortunately, this example becomes a weak argument for the positive impacts of tourism when Knox and Marston (2003) point out the Amboseli Nation...
... economic, and socio-cultural. A sustainable tourism development would to enhance the use of ecological resources while protective the natural tradition and biodiversity and by living cultural tradition protection, respect the local culture host communities. The local communities, while helping to reduce poverty and ensure sustainable and unbiased economic activities, employ opportunities and social services.
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,
Tourism is becoming increasingly important as a source of revenue for many countries but its disadvantages should not be overlooked. The negative effects on the host community and the environment can overwhelm, the lost might be inestimable if not manage properly. There is several tourism disadvantages have taken into consideration on the impact to the countries, mainly divided into three main criteria: environmental effects, social effects and economic effects.
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
Sustainable tourism as an emerging paradigm seems to enhance the existing conceptual frameworks on tourism planning and development by making the residents its focal point. Indeed, both direct and indirect support of community residents’ participation is the foundation of the sustainability paradigm (Butcher
When the industries are on peak positions then managing diversity is a critical to competiveness. Diversity management reacts to proactive rapid change. This is the reason the sustainable tourism focuses on the cultural and the natural resources. Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting places as a tourist and trying to make and positive impact on the environment. Mainly the heritage value of the place, cultural identity of the place, the natural value of the place contributes to the destination of the tourism.
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.
The negative impacts that tourism creates can destroy the environment and all of its resources which it depends of for survival. Tourism has the prospective to create and bring useful effects on to the environment by donation the environmental protection conservation.