The Pros and Cons of Tourism

I have discovered that many locals heavily rely upon tourists to earn

their livings and to afford to live in such an expensive area as

Castleton, where a small cottage will cost about £100,000. Locals

running services for tourists do inflate their prices therefore

creating much profit, particularly in the summer months. This is not a

problem for locals as their lives and livelihoods have certainly been

protected by the attraction of the quaint village in the countryside

which is appealing to many city dwellers, i will go into detail on

these issues later in this section of my project.

There is also a downside to this for the locals.

The locals don't have many services for themselves in the village,

there are virtually no shops for locals. Also tourists cause many

other problems such as traffic - the roads are often congested, litter

and noise. There are also some conflicts over land use.

The locals do have some benefits from the tourist industry, such as

good public transport links, but they wish for something to be done

about the many problems in the village.

I am using the my primary data and some of my secondary data to do

this part of the fieldwork. At the differant sites differant thing

were observed about the litter, the noise, the buildings, the crime,

the erosion, the traffic, the pollution, the vegetation, the wildlife

and the amount of pedestrians in these areas.

Point 1

Point 1 is situated near a bride leading into Castleton. It has an

average amount of litter, a high noise level because of the river that

runs by it and the fact that it is on a main road. It has no buildings

in the area, there was als...

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the B6061 which leads to Castleton. There was quite a lot of litter in

this area because of an obvious lack of bins. The only noise in the

area was the cars passing by the car park whcih were quite frequent

and noisy on the roads surface. There were no visible buildings in

this area. There was no crime to be seen in this area. There was

erosion on the paths leading fron the car park to the main footpaths

and it was quite difficult to walk in some areas. There was no signs

of pollution in the area except for the pollution caused by the car

park. The are huge amounts of vegetation in this area including trees,

bushes and grassy areas. Wildlife couyld be seen in this area. There

were little signs of pedestrians in this area apart from the ones

leaving and entering their cars and the walkers using the footpaths.