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.
Located in Southeast Asia, Thailand has become a well-known destination to many travelers since the early stage of mass tourism. The boost of tourism in Thailand started with Vietnam War where Thailand became a popular destination for the rest and recreation of US military. Since then the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) was established as an official organization to promote the country’s tourism (McDowall & Wang, 2009). Despite a lot of world external factors negatively affected Thailand tourism such as Gulf War 1991, Asia Financial Crisis 1997, SARS 2003 and Tsunami 2004, the overall number of tourists was increasing due to the quick response of the government to the needs of tourism industry and the effect of targeted promotional campaigns (Zhang, Qu & Tavitiyaman, 2009). According to TAT (2014), the international tourist arrivals increased over 333 times from 0.08 million in 1960 to 26.7 million in 2013. And in the same period, tourism revenue rose from US$10 million to US$38 billion. Although Thailand hosted a significant number of tourists and gained a lot of revenue from tourism, Thailand also suffered from negative effects such as AIDS, negative image of sex tourism (Li & Zhang, 1997), degradation of the environment (Koont...
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...and it shows that the percent change of number of tourists will be 117% from 2010 to 2020 compared with 67% of 2000 and 2010 period. And they do not want those figures to be decreased. If so, Thailand tourism will be still at development stage after 2020. So the question is how are they going to prepare for a drop in number of tourists? There will be at some stage Thailand tourism will reach stagnation stage in Butler sequence and we just do not know yet. With the growth estimated and the existence of environmental degradation, Thailand in the future will not have the possibility to proactively solve the problem but just reactivity. In order to do so, the government needs to have long term goals not only focus on the increase of number of tourists but also focus on how to minimize all negative impacts. The recommendations for this part will be discussed in page 20.
As tourism is one of the world’s largest lines of businesses, it seems immensely reasonable that it could have a huge impact on people and various places. This is certainly true for Thailand, and it can be viewed in both positive and negative ways. We might be able to divide the way we look at the benefits and problems of tourism into economic, social and environmental impacts.
Nowadays, developing countries are stimulating to develop the tourism industry to increase the revenue and economic growth. Thailand is one of the counties that used tourism industry to develop for a long time. Tourism industry of Thailand is beneficial because it impacts the national development. The other benefits are the developed areas, medical development, and promoting Thai culture. In addition, Thailand is well-known as ‘the land of smile’ so many tourists are interested in the culture and destinations. Some tourists want to experience the culture heritage of each regions of Thailand. There are benefits that gain from tourism in Thailand.
Tourism has a great impact on the host community that is Bangkok. Tourism brings in improvement in the community, it brings a change in the lifestyles, environment etc. Tourism can contribute in the economic growth of an area. In the past, tourism was based only on the accommodation, hospitality, transportation and entertainment zone with visitors’ attraction such as theme parks, amusement parks, sports facilities, museums etc. People don’t only travel for leisure purpose or for relaxation; they also travel for entertainment, business purpose, either for a meeting, conference, workshop, events etc. Tourism has brought positivity in the host community by protecting the natural environment and maintaining
The tourist industry has changed by a large amount, over the past few years due to the change in peoples’ life style and the change in the economy. Now that people earn much more money than in the past people can afford to spend more money on leisure. People now have the benefits of a paid holiday which leads to a lot of tourism as the individual gets his/her holiday money from their work place.
It hasn’t been a long time since I come to study in Japan but one thing that I noticed is that there are many Thai people in Japan. When I went to a tourist attraction in Japan such as Harajuku, Shinjuku, Shibuya , I saw many Thai tourists. I wonder why Thai tourists keep coming to Japan and the trend seems to increase every years so when I had to present about elements from my country in Japan, I was not hesitate to present about Thai tourists.
As we enter a new millenium the post-colonial nations in the world are still searching for ways to compete in an increasingly globalized, consumption driven economic environment. Many developing countries have speculated that Tourism is an effective catalyst for development as well as increased international understanding. Thailand, who has embraced tourism as the key to its modernization strategy, has been hailed by many as a paradigm for success. Over the past twenty years Thailand has enjoyed one of the fastest economic growth rates of any developing country. This rapid progress has allowed Thailand to emerge as an economic leader in the Third world. The $4 billion a year in tourism revenue is the core support of the Thai economy (Bishop, p. VI). Thai officials have attributed the success of the tourism industry to the "many attractions located in various parts of the country" as well as "the uniqueness of the Thai people" --- "their friendliness and hospitality (Bishop, p. 67)." However the Thai government has failed to recognize the contributions of sex tourism which is estimated to generate about $1.5 billion every year, according to Professor Krikiat Phiapatserithan of Thammasat University (World congress, regional profiles, p. 3).
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...
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.
Impacts of tourism in Hong Kong is a heated topic, and it usually escalates into issues like autonomy of Hong Kong and Mainland Hong Kong conflict, which are much more serious and heated topic among Hong Kong people. From this, the importance of this topic is clearly seen. In this essay negative impacts of tourism in Hong Kong will be discussed with reference to the photo above.
"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." A quote from Henry Miller that tell you about the true meaning of the word destination. In this world, there are a lot of places. We should at least once in his life. But Thailand is the top5 country for tourism. Tourists want to travel much weighs. And one of the tourists. More people want to live in permanent. Although, the political situation of the country is not peaceful. But there are several factors that make foreign nationals wishing to visit Thailand. There are three factors; weather in Thailand with summer season, Thai food is signature of nation and many historic site in Thailand are wonderful places, and expenditure of living in Thailand such as value of money
The sustainable development of tourism requires a continue review of impacts of tourism activity on the area concerned but their lies a shortage of such type of assessment of programmes or policies from both government as well as private stakeholders. In Kurukshetra from concerned authorities.
Industrialization and modernization are two necessary steps for a country to develop. While industry has grown up, the harmful effects of the industry on environment and society have also been increasing at the same time. Tourism in Vietnam is a typical example. According to Joan C. Henderson, Vietnam’s economy has improved after the reform of “Doi Moi” promulgated by the Communist Party at the Sixth Party Congress in 1986 (271). Since this event happened, Vietnam has encouraged the international tourists. The number of visitor arrivals in 1986 was 54,353 and rapidly increasing. In the early 1990s, foreign arrivals were raised by 40 - 50% on average per year (Nguyen and Le, 1997). Recently, on the first ten months of 2014, the total foreign arrivals reached 6,608,391 that rise eight percent higher than the same phase last year (“International”, 2014). However, the development of tourism in the beaches, especially in Vung Tau city, Vietnam causes water pollution, which affects the health of people who live near the beach.
Sex tourism can be acknowledged as a booster for economy in some countries and eventually become the source of their income. However, every country has their own uniqueness which attracts tourists to visit them, and prostitution is not a ‘must’ in order for a country’s economy to grow. One example found is in Thailand, which prostitutes are found commonly in bars, especially in Pattaya. The popularity of prostitution somehow overcomes the beauty of Thailand’s nature. As Thailand is known by foreigners for its beautiful natural resources and culture, it is more reasonable to support the praiseworthy traditions. Furthermore, investing in tourism may cause more loss than profit. Many factors like expanding spaces and renovating hotel rooms need
“Tourism sector plays key role in economic development.” Economics. Radio the Voice of Vietnam. 2004