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Understanding Tourism Impacts: Positive and Negative Effects on Local Communities

Explore the economic, socio-cultural, and environmental impacts of tourism. Learn how tourism can boost economies, preserve cultures, and contribute to conservation, while also causing issues like wealth concentration and environmental damage. Understand the balance between positive and negative effects on local communities.

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Understanding Tourism Impacts: Positive and Negative Effects on Local Communities

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  1. Tourism Impacts

  2. Class Objective • Understand and recognize the tourism industry/development has both positive and negative impacts on local communities • Provide and explain two • Environmental • Economic • Socio-cultural impacts of tourism

  3. Tourism Impacts • Economic • Positive and negative • Environmental • Positive and negative • Socio-cultural • Positive and negative

  4. Economic Impacts • Positive • Foreign exchange earnings balance of payment • Taxes and duties • GDP • Measured using a multiplier effect • Direct • Indirect • Induced • New jobs entrepreneurial activity Diversification of economy

  5. Economic Impacts • Negative • Leakage • Import • Export • Types of jobs • Concentration of wealth • Real estate speculation • Over-dependence

  6. Socio-cultural Impacts • Positive • Improved international understanding • Preservation of culture/heritage • Revitalization of indigenous cultures • Standard living

  7. Socio-cultural Impacts • Negative • A new form of colonialism? • Demonstration effect • Erosion of local values • Undermining of social standards • Commodification

  8. Environmental Impacts • Positive • Contribution to conservation/preservation • Increase of environmental awareness • New laws improved planning and management • Alternatives to more damaging development activities

  9. Environmental Impacts • Negative • Pollution • Erosion and physical damage • Resource base • Visual and structural change

  10. You should be able to… • Understand and recognize the tourism industry/development has both positive and negative impacts on local communities • Provide and explain two • Environmental • Economic • Socio-cultural impacts of tourism

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