Case Study - Mass Tourism - Kenya
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- Created by: Jenny Henry
- Created on: 26-04-13 17:11
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- Case Study - Mass Tourism - Kenya
- Facts
- Over a million tourists visit each year
- Location: Equator
- LEDC
- Positives
- Can do sustainable safari's
- Income used to improve infrastructure - airports
- Benefits locals (creates jobs) benefits tourists (can tarvel to Kenya)
- Creates jobs for locals e.g. working in restaurants / hotels
- Foreign tourists bring in money - reinvested into country e.g. schools/healthcare and services
- Negatives
- Activities such as hot air balloons
- Disrupt migratory and breeding problems (animals)
- Shadow off balloon is mistaken as a predator to the animals
- Disrupt migratory and breeding problems (animals)
- Safari's disrupt and scare animals
- Damages the soil which causes disruption to farmers
- Large multinational hotel chains usually run by MEDC's (profit returns to MEDC not Kenya)
- Banks in MEDC'S benefit because they lent Kenya millions to create new resorts
- Kenya have to pay this back with a lot of interest - they are in dept
- Tourists dress innapropriatly against islamic / muslim cultures (on beaches - bikinis)
- Activities such as hot air balloons
- Physical Features
- Beautiful beaches - attracts tourism
- Spectacular views (mountais e.g. Mount Kilimanjaro)
- Savanna Grassland
- Human Features
- Govvernment wants to encourage tourism to create income
- Fascinating cultures
- Masai paid to perform
- Tourists visit Masai and patronise their culture and devalue it
- Tourists haggle down prices
- Provides income for their family and country
- Tourists visit Masai and patronise their culture and devalue it
- Facts
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