Cultural Tourism Case Study

Nowadays, more and more countries are negatively influenced by tourism. For example, the conversion of Peru’s Pisac pottery in order to attract tourists (Sharma, 2004); the destruction made by tourists in Roman Forum such as scrawl on the pillar (Mastro, 2015); the damage caused by tourists in Stonehenge-like chopping some stones (Mastro, 2015). The above proofs prove that tourism actually does harm to the culture of tourist spots, but there is a method to prevent those problems from happening again which is cultural tourism.

Cultural tourism is an event that helps people to experience and understand the custom, environment, architecture and ideas. (Janos Csapo, 2012) It encourages tourists to have a pleasant time with the unique culture of

It has been argued that the government officials in some Asian nation would rather tolerate sex tourism, as sex tourism can be a precious source of foreign exchange for the country's economic development(Staudt, 1998; Sharma ,2004). Increasingly, locals are being involved in sex tourism in order to earn more money(Sharma, 2004).

Therefore, tourism creates a sickening culture indirectly that women are wrongly labeled as submissive, trained to amuse male clients and cheap sex slaves in the society(Sharma, 2004).

However, Culture tourism such as Ethnic tourism is planned for cultural preservation. Smith (1977) defined the ethnic tourism as tourism “marketed to the public in terms of the ‘Quaint ’customs of indigenous and often exotic peoples”, and tourists accept and experience the lifestyles of exotic people. For instance, the government would promote marketable tourism products like Ethnic Li clothing, which could create job opportunities and increase locals' income, especially for women who work in sex tourism(Xie, 2011). Besides, it could assist tourists to understand their lifestyles and clothing culture (Smith, 1977). To sum up, Culture tourism could have a great effect on local cultural

The characteristic of festival tourism is taking advantage of the unique local custom to attract tourists. Consequently, not only the custom is highly promoted to foreigners, but also raise the awareness of locals that the traditional custom can also be a selling point. For instance, many tourists fascinated by the wonderful custom of Pune Festival then visit there and consume. (Dr. Savita Kulkarni & Dr. Alka Bhopatkar, 2013 p.9) Accordingly, locals would put strong emphasis on the development of their custom after they realize that tourists would get fancy with their special custom and it would bring huge benefits to local society. As a result, festival tourism lead to the continuation of local’s custom with considerable economic benefits which definitely do good to custom