Social and Cultural Impacts of Tourism geography
- Created by: Caitlinyx
- Created on: 27-04-13 18:11
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- Social and Cultural Impacts of Tourism
- Raise standard of living
- Schools
- Hospitals
- Medicine
- Sharing local foods
- Sharing traditions
- People WANT to experience other people's lives - appriciation
- Tourists interest can cause monuments being preserved, e.g. Great Wall of China
- Maldives split locals from the tourists
- Pressure on local services
- House prices rise
- Locals don't know everybody anymore
- Traditional dances modified for tourists
- Watered down culture
- See you have wealth - begging and stealing
- Ignoring local language and speaking english
- Encouraging prostitution and maybe crime
- Ignoring local fress codes - e.g. Dubai
- Drinking, offensive and loud
- Not behaving in religious places
- Peak times
- Congestion
- Food
- Sewage problems
- some just go to a small part of the community
- Cultural displays turn to novelty
- Traditional items lose value
- Raise standard of living
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