Tourism
- Created by: Emily Malfoy
- Created on: 28-03-15 12:51
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- Tourism
- Tourist Resort Life Cycle
- Exploration
- Few tourists and tourist facilities
- Area is unspolit
- Development
- Becomes a recognised tourist destination
- Bigger companies build facilities
- Area is developed and advertised
- Involvement
- Local people start to create some basic tourist facilities
- Consolidation
- Growth in tourist numbers starts to level off
- There may start to be conflict between tourists and locals
- Stagnation
- Tourist facilities become old and run down
- Tourists are starting to choose to go elsewhere for their holidays
- There is more conflict between tourists and local people
- Rejuvination
- Area gets invested in to modernise the facilities
- Tourist numbers start to go up again
- Decline
- Tourist numbers continue to go down
- Locals with tourist related jobs become unemployed as demand falls
- The area gets a bad reputation
- Exploration
- Eco tourism
- A type of sustainable development that encourages tourists to be environmentally friendly
- Want to reduce impact of tourism on natural environments
- Guidelines for ecotourists
- Protect the environment, e.g: don't drop litter
- Don't interfere with wildlife, e.g.: don't feed animals
- Conserve resources, e.g: take short showers instead of long baths
- Be involved in the local community and don't contribute to economic leakage, e.g: stay in locally owned hotels
- Respect local customs and traditions, e.g: try to learn some of the language
- Mass Tourism
- lots of tourists going to one area often at the same time of year
- Advantages of mass tourism
- Jobs in tourism created for locals, e.g: waiters, tourguides
- Improvements in infrastructure to accommodate tourists also benefit locals
- Tourists pay tax which the government can invest in areas such as education
- Tourists may learn more about the heritage and culture of the place they are staying in
- Disadvantages of mass tourism
- People may not buy from local businesses leading to economic leakage
- Jobs in tourism are often seasonal and low paid
- tourists may use up lots of the countries resources such as water
- Extreme tourism
- Happens in an environment with extreme conditions that make it harder for human survival
- Target market is younger people who have the physical strength to take part in an extreme holiday
- examples of extreme tourist environments: Death Valley, USA; Antarctica; Amazon rainforest, Brazil
- Tourist Resort Life Cycle
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