1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Kandampully (2000) define tourism as a unique product composite with tangible and intangible services by tourist’s experience. Travel and tourism is the second largest global industry with daily international revenues of approximately US$2 billion, and investment of 12 percents of world GDP (Balakrishnan, 2009). That is why travel and tourism considered as one of the fastest growing industries based on WWTC, 1995. Tourism is the second most important money spinner for Kelantan besides agricultural sector. It contributes about 30 percent(%) of the Kelantan’s GDP in the year of 2015 and USD 3.25 million was generated by the state from the tourism industry (Zuhaimy Ismail, 2016).
Based on the statistical analysis of the tourist’s summary profile by Suliadi et al. (2016), the total number of international tourists that came to Kelantan during the year of 2014 was 573,649 and a total of 852 international tourists came to Kelantan’s Tourist Information Centre (TIC) to find information about Kelantan. Kelantan is located in the west peninsular Malaysia, sharing the border with Thailand (Department of statistics,
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The majority of tourist came to Pasar Siti Khadijah because of their famous tourism activity such as food, traditional clothes and other attraction. According to Kelantan State Government in year 2016, it is expected to receive six million of tourist arrival in the state. As one of the top tourist attraction spot in Kelantan, Pasar Siti Khadijah has been visited everyday by the tourist. Based on article environmental management of a tourist destination, it stated that tourist demand for a better environment quality at tourist destination and also the destination choice is influenced by the environmental attractiveness of the destination. According to research finding, there is a gap between tourist environmental awareness and their corresponding
The most important aspect of tourism development is to bring in the necessary behavioral and attitudinal change in the society to make it tourist friendly and create a strong receptive atmosphere. People’s participation through Panchayati Raj Institutions, Urban Local Bodies, Co-Ops and NGOs shall be encouraged for development of tourism and to create public awareness to achieve a broader goal of high quality tourist services. 7. A mechanism should be in place to register travel agent at local level for the tourist .So that they will get a genuine travel service to visit different places in day time .The
An increasingly common motivator for travel is for one to have the ability to experience a culture different than their own in a more involved and intimate manner than say a book, film, or websearch could provide. As a result of these desires, when individuals travel they are likely to partake in other ethnic or cultural traditions in an effort to expose themselves to something different than our own traditions, something “foreign”. New emerging trends in tourism, such as the increase in the popularity of observing or participating in ethnic or cultural activities and events, has piqued the interest of scholars. Studies pertaining to these concepts are often called cultural heritage tourism or CHT.
Obviously, food and wine tourism brings some impacts on the destinations. In the report, we will introduce from three main points of impacts which are economic impact, environment impact and culture impact. Meanwhile, there are some other impacts will be mentioned in this report although they only apply a few effect on the destination. First of all, we will introduce the economic impacts of the food and wine tourism, this tourism brings series of relevant industries. For example, hotel,restaurant, rent a car and guide tour. As we all know, with the developing of tourism industry, an increasing number of people will come to the destination, that means they need more space to live, eat and enjoy the views of that destination. At the meantime,the
The natural beauty and the cultural serenity of the island have been attracting travelers from all over the world. The welcoming people and the excellent hospitality offered by the resorts are praiseworthy to say the least. The planned infrastructural development of the island has ensured a stance wherein the numbers of tourists have been hosted easily but at the same time the cultural elegance of the place has been preserved effectively. A great place to visit on a family budget holiday, Bali is undoubtedly one of the
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.
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.
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,
Anthropology and Tourism: A Sociological Comparison There are multiple similarities and differences between anthropology and tourism. Similar because they both involve observing the culture of another society, but different in how it is conducted and how it can affect people. Anthropology is meant to be respectful, ask for permission, and make sure that there is no obstruction of boundaries. The main goal of anthropology is to research and understand the way people do things and how the society works. Tourism, on the other hand, can be seen as obtrusive and offensive to the host’s culture.
From ancient times Sri Lanka has been an attractive tourism region. its known as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean because of its location in the Indian Ocean and attractive coastline. In ancient times sri lnka was known as cylon. Sri Lanka has a zone of 65610 square km with 1585 km coastline. Because sri lanka close to the equator its has a hot and wet climate. There are many palm-studded beaches and has a hot wet climate of average temperature of 20-30 c degrees. The main tourist’s attraction regions are beaches and its cultural tourism places. One of the reasons why tourist like sri lanka is that it is less hazardous country. Sri lanka has a population of 20.33 million people. There are four main ethnic groups in sri lanka, Sinhalese,
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
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
Japan is a country with countless attraction and points of interest, whether its heritage, food, popular culture or dark tourism, Japan as a tourism destination can offer many things. Because of the saturation of culture there are many types of tourism which apply (Berger 2010). Cultural tourism, adventure, ecotourism, food and family tourism and even sex tourism to name a few and with the increasing relevance of Otaku1 culture in the western world, Japans popularity as a holiday destination has increased drastically. The popularity of Japanese tourism can largely be attributed to the growing cultural interest displayed by the visitors which means that cultural exploration is one of the more significant reasons of visitation.
Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia. Consists of more than 18,000 islands, Indonesia provides a beautiful views, cultures, and tourist resort. The capital of Indonesia and the largest city is Jakarta, located in Java Island. The Indonesian’s currency is rupiah. Indonesia is a republic country, and the government system is democracy Absolutely, Indonesia also have a lot of tribes with different languages and religion. Indonesia got the freedom from the Netherlands in 1942, and Japan in 1945.
The economy can be clearly identified as the most beneficial aspect of tourism. “According to recent statistics, tourism provides about 10% of the world’s income and employs almost one tenth of the world’s workforce” (Mirbabayev, 2007). In Australia alone, Tourism contributed $87.3 billion in 2012, and employed 908,434 (7.9%) people (Kookana & Duc Pham, 2013). Tourism is “one of the most profitable and rapidly developing industries in the world” (Popushoi, 2004). Every year the number of tourists increase dramatically and consequently the revenues from tourism will increase substantially.
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.