What good and bad impact does tourism have on an area?
Hello people, I really need some help on my geography coursework to do with tourism. I’ve done mos tof it but I need a some help on the good and bad impact of tourism. I’ve done some, but I really need more! Please could you help me out by listing about 5 good and bad impacts or if thats too hard as many as you can think of.
Good
More jobs.
Better economy.
Better entertainment in the area.
Meeting new people.
Bad.
Inflated prices.
Parking issues.
Noise.
Privacy.
Bad:
Traffic
Crime
Overuse
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Good
More jobs.
Better economy.
Better entertainment in the area.
Meeting new people.
Bad.
Inflated prices.
Parking issues.
Noise.
Privacy.
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Tourism brings good and bad things, pollution from all the Tourist buses particularly where we are in London. And many places are now trying to limit how many visitors because of the impact of litter and pollution on ancient buildings and landmarks. Good, i guess it brings money into many places economies and in fact i think that many tourists keep the west end theatre land going as they seem to be the bulk of people who watch these shows. Personally i wish there weren’t so may here in London. I find trying to vie to get somewhere quite hard, but there you are that’s just me.
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tourists also want to take mementos home with them to remind them of their trip… i know that in the case of Uluru [the most famous rock of Australia] tourists used to chip pieces off to take with them- this cause a lot of damage and now you can’t get too close to Uluru or climb on it. tourists can cause a lot of biological damage.
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Hi
Best of luck with your geography studies, I always enjoyed that subjcet at school.
My ideas as below, hope they help.
Positive impacts of tourism on an area –
- Jobs provision
- Economic knock on effect throughout whole local econony
- Local businesses benefit
- Inmigration of workers and visitors who may stay, hence boosting population numbers
- Publicity for area
- Could earn revenue for local councils through tourist tax
- Public transport improves to meet visitor needs, which benefits
negative impact of tourism on the area
- Stretches infrastructure / roads (a classic example of this is the Loch Lomond roadside near Glasgow on a bank holiday Monday).
- Jobs may be very seasonal and low paid (typically, hotel work, shops or tourist attractions).
- Environment may be damaged. especially in a senstive environment such as mountains (often the debate in french alps as new areas are developed for skiing with lifts/ gondolas being fitted).
- Numbers of visitors may lead to overcrowding (another example of this is Lake District, some of the joy is actually ruined by the number of visitors).
- Monetary benefit may be confined to specific businesses or very small area (sure the economic benfit from Euro-Disney is mostly cofined to Disney corp? )
- Local house prices may be pushed up by visitors wanting to buy second homes, or people investing in homes for rental. This means that locals cannot afford to buy homes in their own area.
I think this is actually quite an interesting question and sure you will get some answers to help you.
Cheers
MGB
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In 1996, my wife and I went on a cruise.
One port of call was Cozumel, an island off Mexico.
This was so beautiful.
Our ship was docked about 5 miles from the main town, where I noticed the water was crystal clear.
The ship needed 40 feet of water to dock safely, yet we could see the bottom ofthe sea as if it was a giant aquarium… beautiful.
The taxis lined up, but we decided to walk into town.. good excercise and nothing was forcing us to get there quickly.
Anyone we met as we walked was polite in a nodding way, that is they carried on with what they were doing, and let us continue unharrassed.
The town was quaint, had plenty of bargains and nothing was too much trouble for any of the vendors… so much so that we both expressed a desire to return.
We did… 4 years later!
This time, there were 5 ships docked right outside the town centre, all sorts of shops had sprung up and the place was like Blackpool on a busy day.
Prices had gone through the roof!
Almost every step of the way we were harrassed… "please… come into my shop.. we have bargains… one such was a 3 carat sapphire for ONLY 5,000US$!
We had purchased one one year earlier for 300US$ complete with 18 carat gold setting tailor made for us, so the difference in price was laughable!
The waters around were polluted, the beautiful scenery had been replaced by many ugly buildings, the naivity of the vendors had been replaced by a hard nosed business approach.
There was also repeated warnings of bag snatchers working the town.
We had to queue for everything, including the toilets!
How much do want to go back there?
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good 1 it can bring in jobs 2 money off sales of goods 3 depending on were it is learning for people ie nature ofr culture 4 just knoning you live in a place of intrest can help you be proud of it and try to keet things looking good 5 council will spend there money on it as its an investment bad 1 may bring crime to the place 2 shops seem to increas prices 3 trafic so may do road works to take it all changing the way you live and the look 4 parking will be costly and restricted 5 some people dont think and the sites can be spoilt by trampling and rubbish hope this helped you
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well I’m just gonna point this out since I saw your question and I this this is horrifying in some countries
its kinda weird and awkward but yet terrifying/shocking, and I find it really disturbing *gross*
There are countries with corruption, and I’m just gonna go straight to the point. Some countries have bandits drugging tourists and then taking them somewhere where they steal their organs like liver, heart, lungs, kidneys…
I’m pretty sure 3 out of 4 Americans (I’m Norwegian so 84% of Norwegians are healthy, few poor people in Norway) are healthy, therefore if… lets say a hospital gets in a tourist with a broken leg they might steal their organs as well mabye because they needed it to sell it or lets say mafia paid the hospital to give a person an organ transplant
so yeah theres a lot more freaky than that but thats just something I get gross of and it would be good for those who are stealing but It is illegal and wrong, they steal the organs from living people, my self I’m just terrified by the thought
So I think that and the whole thing about countries being in corruption is something important on tourism, definitely something that should be made a stop on
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St Ives,Cornwall. Overcrowded on a summer weekend. Traffic jams,pedestrian jam in main street.Sewer system overloaded.Tourists look thro` windows of the pretty cottages, annoying the residents,Lots of litter dropped in the street.noise from late night drinkers.
Provides income for pubs,hotels,souvenier shops.Pushes up local house prices, making money for estate agents.
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Good: Cash flow into the economy,. Bad: More trash, pollution, sanitary problems, crime problems, traffic, etc.
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Good:
1.More economic activity and GDP
2. More employment
3. More interaction with outsiders for gaining knowlegde.
4. More sales
5. More hotel business
Bad:
1. More traffic
2. More living expenses
3. More Diseases
4. More inflation
5. Less balanced economy
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GOOD:
Jobs
Better Economy
Benefits Local Businesses
Immigration = A Better Economy and the unemployment rate falls and population increases
Publicity
Better Public Transport
BAD:
Crime
Pollution – Noise, Litter, Traffic (Vehicle), Air
Unemployment
Too many illegal immigrants
Inflation (e.g. In Zimbabwe inflation is now at 100,000%)
Privacy
Too Much Tourism (Overcrowding)
Environmental Damage
i did Leisure and Tourism at GCSE and i didn’t really like it lol anyways hope it helps you and that you do well.
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