Myanmar: the problems created by tourism
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- Created on: 16-05-14 09:53
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- Myanmar: the problems created by growth of tourism
- background
- Over 60 percent of Myanmar people are in extreme poverty
- Military dictatorship
- the foreign currency gained from touism is mainly spent on military spending
- military spending accounts for nearly half of the government budget
- less than 44 pence per person per year is spent on health and education
- Economic
- travel and tourism industry jobs account for 3 per cent of total employment
- Myanmar attracts between 100,000 - 200,000 foreign visitor a year
- tourist boycott
- 1996: some thought it did more harm than good
- population displacement
- moer than 1 million people have been displaced from their homes
- this is in order to: 'beautify' cities, supress dissent, and make way for tourist developments e.g. hotels, airports and golf courses
- hundreds of thousands of people have been used as forced labour to clean up existing tourist attractions
- in 2004 'sea gypsies' were rounded up and forced to live on land and perform traditional dances for foreign tourists
- moer than 1 million people have been displaced from their homes
- environmental degredation
- Maynmar boasts a huge variety ecosystems
- tropical islands, rainforests, mangroves and great rice-growing plains in the south
- snow-capped peaks in the north
- the haste to develop tourist and other aspects of infastructure has has often taken little account of the environmental repercussions
- Maynmar boasts a huge variety ecosystems
- Seasonality
- best season for climate is November to February (not too hot and lowest levels of precipitation)
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