Most people think of tourism as holiday-makers staying in a hotel or enjoying local facilities. But only a few knew that it is much more than that. Tourism encompasses the movement of people for things such as business, recreational, health, religious or for cultural purposes. As a matter of fact, a number of countries both developed and developing started to recognize the potential of tourism as a viable poverty reduction option especially for those developing countries.Tourism is an important economic activity in most countries around the world. Itbecame an important strategy for local development in many underdeveloped regions. It shows that tourism development has an important impact on economic, livelihoods and socio-cultural development. …show more content…
Poverty alleviation has become an importantstate for peace, environmental conservation, and sustainable development, besides being an ethical obligation in an affluent world, where the divide between poor and rich nations seems to have increased in recent years. (WTO, 2004)
Thus, the tourism industry has stretched from the seaside to mountain resorts and from small villages to big metropolises.The projections of high tourism growth in developing nations, where widespread poverty exists, has led to considerable interest in tourism as a tool for poverty alleviation. International development agencies are also turning to tourism as a way of alleviating poverty. This is sometimes termed ‘pro-poor tourism’.
Even though that tourism is considered by many communities, especially in developing countries an instrument for development and chance for increasing the quality of life, tourism at the same time started to show its uglier sides. Both the actions of investors and of tourists are having negative impacts on the socio-cultural values and environmental assets of host communities all over the world. Hence, this paper is devoted to present the impacts of tourism on society from three viewpoints:economic, environment, social and
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The socio-cultural impacts of tourism refers to the effects on host communities of direct and indirect relations with tourists, and of interaction with the tourism industry. Tourism improves the quality of life in an area by increasing the number of recreational opportunities, attractions, and services. Tourism offers the host residents’ opportunities to meet a variety of people, make acquaintances, learn about the world, and expose themselves to new viewpoints. By experiencing different cultural practices, it enhances experiences and increases insight and appreciation for diverse styles to
Smith, Stephen C. Ending Global Poverty: A Guide to What Works. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Print.
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).
Although the tourism industry provides countless impacts towards a community, the key and foremost is its influence it has on the community’s economic status. In places like Mexico and South America, tourism is the key to help make the country prosper and strive for economic success. Without tourist, many places in Mexico like Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Cozumel and Puerto Penasco would be in economic devastation because the tourism industry is what turns their economy which creates more revenue for business providing the locals with more job opportunity to help aid in the creation of a thriving region. Tourism in almost all regions of the world provides some form of economic growth that benefits the country. In Mexico for example, there are many small villages and towns that survive off of what tourist have to offer from hospitality to products and goods to even attractions.
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
This essay is trying to critically analyse the journal article written by A Lepp (2008) entitled ‘Attitudes towards initial tourism development with no prior tourism experience: the case of Bigodi, Uganda’. The journal use qualitative method to assess the resident’s attitudes towards the start up of tourism programs in a rural village in Uganda. Due to the geographical isolation they couldn’t establish any tourism attractions prior to the 1990’s. But in 1991 the country initiated to introduce some tourism projects and eventually it formulated year by year. And this study is conducted on the basis of the interview taken in the residents of Bigodi in 2003. So the study proves that the signs of initial tourism created anxiety, suspicion and fear to the local people who experience it as an entirely new concept. The journal article gives a brief idea about the general attitudes about developing tourism concepts to an undeveloped country.
There are number of reasons for tourism development agencies, in both the public and private sectors, to develop pro-poor tourism strategies as a priority agenda in practice. The two main reasons are suggested as
Tourism is often associated with traveling to places away from home. Tourism has a big impact on the economic growth of some countries, which define the shape of their cities by producing different sectors like historic districts, convention centers, museums, malls, hotels, restaurants, and the list can be endless. Furthermore, tourism elements have been developed by cities for a variety of reasons including: situating themselves in the world by drawing a positive image and attracting visitors and for their money.
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.
Anthropologists believe tourism can be a very successful anthropological strategy to integrate a group of guests into a new culture (Selwyn, 1990). Ethnic and historical tourism are the branches that relate mostly to anthropology. They focus more on the integration of culture and learning more about the society and history. They are much more strict in regards to boundaries and rules as opposed to recreational and cultural tourism. Cultural and recreational tourism differ the most from anthropology, dismissing important rules and offending the host country’s residents.
It is understand that the resorts are fully equipped which primary function is used by a corporate clientele for meetings and to visitors who are interested in nature, adventure and other outdoor pursuits. Therefore, such a huge number of visitors may overexploit natural resources and have a heavy impact on the environment. In addition, there will be environmental distortion and pollutions when there are overuse of infrastructure, transportation and other facilities. There is a serious problem for environmental issues when the unhygienic disposal of human waste, discharge of wastes and littering into water sources which is very important for agriculture will cause severe environmental pollutions due to irresponsible attitudes of tourists during tourism activities such as trekking and camping. Without strict regulations on appropriate land use, high-rise buildings such as tourist hotels, and the overwhelming number of tourists, have resulted in congestion and spoiled much of the local
In recent years, tourism marketing has gone through strategic changes with the improvement in new technologies, the chase of a relationship between customers and suppliers as well as the importance of sustainability issues in marketing. Marketing Tourism reconsiders the needs of the tourists but does not overlook on the long term economic, environmental, social and cultural interests of the local population. So, it means that marketing consider both the tourist demand and effect to society as
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.
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.
Tourism is the one of economic and social activities that increasingly vital. Number of travellers domestic and international is increasing. In fact, several countries in present world develop tourism sectors as primary sector which generate national income. According to Salah Wahab and Cooper (2003). Tourism is also sector which involves role that mutually link between government, private sector and also public.
At the present time, one of the inseparable parts of the economic growth is considered as tourism industry. Commonly, tourism is the movement of people to other places for business or leisure purposes as well as covers their activities. Holloway and Humphreys defines that the places where tourists come and spend their money are called as “tourist destinations” in other words “receiving areas”. Many countries have been improving tourism to overcome economic difficulties since it is growing fast. The industry activities have been demonstrated a general positive trend in the economy and it has already become the inherent part of economic development. In host countries, tourism has led to such positive consequences as the improved infrastructure,