IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN CHAMONIX
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- Created on: 29-05-13 21:02
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- TOURISM IN CHAMONIX
- ECONOMIC IMPACTS
- Creates lots of jobs
- E.g. 2500 people work as seasonal workers every year
- Companies make lots of money from it
- E.g. Compagnie du Mont Blanc - runs ski lifts and rail transport - turnover of €50 million
- Creates lots of jobs
- SOCIAL IMPACTS
- Types of jobs changed from farm labouring to jobs in restaurants and hotels
- Tourist developments have increased the risk of avalanches - more deaths from avalanches, e,g, 12 people killed in 1999
- ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
- Large numbers of tourists cause traffic - increases pollution
- E.g. study from 2002 to 2004 showed traffic pollution was worse there than in the centre of Paris
- Huge amount of energy used to run facilities for tourists - increases carbon dioxide emissions, global warming
- Large numbers of tourists cause traffic - increases pollution
- ECONOMIC IMPACTS
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