Commodification Impacts on Tourism

Just like modern day tourists, the tourism industry has been on a steady, fast paced journey due to technological evolution. With the affordability and easy accessibility, traveling potential has greatly increased. Sometimes, it is the destination that matters along with the people you go on the voyage with. This paper will analyze Isla Holbox as a cultural destination.

The progression of technology and its presence in society has strongly molded the way people live their lives today, and the way they will continue to live their lives years from now. But with this advancement of science and increased order, there is a consequence that seems to be a heavy price to pay: the loss of human emotion and freewill, and the submission to organization and commands. The tourist industry is one such manufactured machine, so to speak, that influences people's views in certain aspects. One of these aspects, culture, is a main focus of post-modernist writer Bryan Turner, who believes that "tourism invents and demands empathy...makes cultures

Tourism is a dynamic and competitive industry that requires the ability to adapt constantly to customers' changing needs and desires, as the customer’s satisfaction, safety and enjoyment are particularly the focus of tourism businesses. In her book Rosalie Schwartz defines tourists as “sedentary people who leave home for pleasure and intend to return.” But “leisure creates work, it requires the work from others to ensure tourists find the pleasure they’re looking for.” Schwartz thesis in the book is that tourism in Cuba completely changed the social and economic aspect of the island; the author focuses in three tourist peaks in Cuba starting in 1920s, 1950s, and finally the 1980s.

Throughout my academic career, I have taken courses in Research Methods, Public Policy, International Relations and Politics and History of Alternative Tourism. Through this coursework, I have learned the importance

The Dominican Republic is the right example in the Caribbean for a relative late tourism development. In comparison with other island destinations, the Dominican Republic was politically affected and became unstable (Freitag, 1994: 538).

Veal, A. J., 2006. Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism. 3rd ed. Beijing: China Renmin University Press.

We could see how the service sector has boosted the country’s stance in the Caribbean and has promoted recognition world wide. Much of the countries focus is now towards increasing their tourism as it is a large percept of the countries GDP. Investors look at this sector a see potential to do business with eh Dominican Republic. The Dominican government looks at these opportunities and capitalized those relationships for the growth of the country as a whole. Tourism has become an asset that has catapulted the Dominican Republic

Travel started to develop as a business many years ago. This industry began, when the ancient and rich inhabitants of Phoenicia, Rome, Egypt, Greece, and China; out of curiosity and a sense of adventure, about their surroundings, began to travel. Today tourism is a billionaire industry that serves the needs and wants of millions of domestic and international tourists. There is no doubt, that capitalism has played an active role in the developing of this powerful enterprise. However, when this business began, only the rich populations were able to enjoy their summers on the coasts and countryside. As these powerful people continue traveling, their servants have to cater for their patrons travel and accommodations needs and wants. As the Roman Empire decline, this business endured a backlash. In Central America the Incas had to travel to trade with the different racial groups, which were part of their empires to trade and collect taxes from their peasants.

As mentioned by Rimmington & Morrison (2009), the assistance from different parts of the world presents a new and diverse outlook for future research including theoretical innovations and revelations, cultural and environmental aspects, tourist destination and other ecotourism and recreational aspects of tourism and hospitality industry (Brotherton,

Another aspect of impact of tourism on a country’s economy is that it facilitates the expansion of the market of goods and services. Foreigners come to a country willing to spend money on different goods and services, thus increasing the amounts of sales. This is a great chance for producers and service providers to receive larger profits. This concerns not only hoteliers, tour operators, and souvenir shops owners. Public transportation, retail stores of different kind, restaurants, and cafes benefit from international tourism. Obviously, if these industries are in demand, businesses will be expanding. On the one hand, it means that more money is paid to the budget. On the other hand, profits generated by the owners are spent inside the country, affecting almost all the fields of the

Gregory explains about the theme of “Luxury Tourism and the political economy dominated by those with power.” The purpose of this chapter is to provide discussion on the hiring of the natives in the Dominican Republic. The thesis of the chapter is to explain how the riff-raff are arising from the problem of the luxury tourism having little contribution to the local economies.

The first chapter analyses how the economy of the Dominican republic switched from a focus on the sugar industry to a focus on the growing urge for international tourism. One large aspect of the economy of the Dominican republic was the sugar industry, especially in the city of Andres. Gregory writes that, the sugar industry was a large source of income for the Dominican Republic. Gregory states, that as the mid to late 20th century continued, the sugar industry was not supporting the country’s economy at all, so the economy began to switch its focus from the sugar industry in Andres to the increasing interest in international tourism in Boca Chica. Gregory makes an important point, that part of the push for the Dominican Republic to switch to an economic focus on tourism was caused by a push by the World Back to promote tourism as an “economic panacea”. Gregory quotes Malcolm Crick, who states, “Tourism was represented as an easy option for development because it relied largely on natural resources already in place—e.g. sand, sun, friendly people—and therefore required no vast capital outlays for infrastructure.” This shift in the Dominican Republic took off because it seemed like a very easy way for the country to develop economically and make themselves known on a

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry

The tourism from its beginning has manifested itself over the centuries in different shades, but the greatest common denominator was the movement of people to meet their needs. As claimed by Graburn (1983, quoted in Shaprley, 2008, pp. 1-23), ‘Tourism cannot be viewed as one monolithic, static sort of phenomenon’. The history of tourism opened with a restricted number of tourists who could afford to travel for the purpose of leisure and pleasure, in particular during the seventieth and eighteenth centuries with the Grand Tour and development of spas. Over the nineteenth century, the figure of Thomas Cook laid the foundations for tourism understood as a mass phenomenon. However with the arrival of mass tourism in the twentieth century marked the watershed between the elitism of the previous centuries and the tourism accessible to the masses. As argued by Towner (1995, pp. 340) tourism over the latter half of the twentieth century ‘spreading socially from the upper classes, down through the middle ranks and ultimately to the mass working classes’. This essay looks in particular the events that have revolutionized the ‘make tourism’ by European tourist during the twentieth century. It also looks to the influences that the trends examined had on tourist behavior and his openness to new habits in relation to the management of his leisure time. The impact of these innovations towards the concept of tourism in a contemporary way will be analyses throughout the essay leading to a

Sightseers today are more experienced and searching for new destinations and new experience. Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs) have been aggressively pamper the visitors ' necessities to expand their piece of the overall industry despite the fact that their assets are exceptionally restricted. In the tourism business, there has been a developing wonder that travelers visit destinations included through movies which are not specifically identified with DMOs ' tourism advancement. This is another type of social tourism called film-induced tourism. Late research recommends that movies can have solid impact on visitor choice making and movies don 't just give fleeting tourism income however long haul thriving to the destination. A few DMOs have immediately taken these points of interest and have effectively expanded the quantity of voyagers through the enchantment of movies. (Sue Beeton, 2005)