Tourism
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- Created on: 01-06-14 12:42
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- Tourism
- Types of tourism
- Leisure, holiday and festival - beach, city breaks, activity or adventure, health, heritage and cultural
- VFR - visiting friends, family and relatives
- Business - meetings and conferences
- Why is tourism growing?
- Social
- Communications and IT, working conditions and changing fashions
- Economic
- Wealth, transport and exchange rates
- Political
- Relaxation of border controls to encourage tourism, attraction of the money to be made from visas and departure tax.
- Social
- Tourist destinations
- Physical
- Bright, clear skies, beautiful scenery, popular beaches, clean,sandy beaches
- Human
- Hotels nearby, good transport, famous landmarks, water sports provided
- Physical
- The Butler model: Blackpool
- Stage 1: Exploration (early 19thCentury) - only wealthy could afford to visit, still a hamlet
- Stage 2: Incolvement (1846) - railways provided cheap travel enabling working class to go on holiday
- Stage 3: Development (1870's) - workers granted annual holidays, factories closed and thousands visited, Tower, promenade, Piers and arcade built
- Stage 4: Consolidation(interwar, 1918-1939) - workers given holiday pay, Europe's leading coastal resort, 150,000 permanent population
- Stage 5:Stagnation (After ww2) - didn't have money for holidays
- Stage 6: Rejuvenation (2003) casinos and conference centres built, hotels refurbished Stabilisation (1990) Sea life centre opened Decline (mid 1960's) cheap package hoilday's and cheap air travel.
- Impacts on tourism
- HIC's:Ibiza
- More jobs available and bring money to the local community however there is a lot of noise and bad publicity and higher risk of crime (drugs)
- Sandy beaches, peaceful resorts, full of culture, better transport links
- LIC's: Nepal
- Young men leave villages to become guides, teenagers drop out of school early, deforestation,basic food prices go up, not enough male labor, improvement on schools.
- HIC's:Ibiza
- Eco-tourism: Trinidad, West Indies
- Tourism which respects the environment and benefits the local community
- Environmental
- only 10% accessible to visitors
- On-site recycling and waste water
- Social
- 50 staff live and work on estate and get free loans for building Food supplied by local farmers
- It should:
- Help conserve local environment, use resources sustainably, benefit local people, educate tourists how to not damage environment
- Types of tourism
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