Effects Of Tourism

Tourism has taken a toll on many Native Hawaiians and is a huge human rights issue today. Most Hawaiians dislike tourism greatly due to the selfishness and greediness tourists bring to their home country. The pastor at a small rural church on the island of Kauai, Reverend Kaleo Patterson, has witnessed and dealt with numerous Hawaiians who struggle with the issues of tourism. Numerous vacation resorts that attract tourists have taken over gravesites of Hawaiians that have passed away. Due to this problem ancient Hawaiians have to partake in reburials. Tourism causes destruction to coral reefs and rivers because of mindless pollution. Reverend Patterson has protested and given public hearings in effort to acknowledge her fury on tourism. Tourism has brought an uncontrollable worldwide business that has no sympathy or thoughtfulness for the original people of Hawaii.

The second effect is sociocultural. According to Dogan (1989), tourism development has a great effect on the socio-cultural characteristics of residents like habits, daily routines, social lives and beliefs, and values. They may lead to psychological tension. Firstly, there are many positives from tourism development. Brunt and Courtney (1999) mentioned that tourism can result in improved community services, additional park, recreation and cultural facilities and encouragement of cultural activities. Tourism also encourages cultural activities and improve cultural heritage (Gilbert & Clark 1997). However, this may lead to some negative like traditional family values ( Kousis, 1989); cultural commercialization ( Cohen, 1988); crime (Brunt &

Tourism plays a vital role in economic development in most countries around the world. The industry has not only direct economic impact, but also significant indirect and influential impacts. There is agreement among experts that the travel and tourism sector is the fastest growing of global economy. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism receipts surpass US$ 1 trillion in 2011, growing about 3.8%up from 2010 (WTO, 2012).

Britain has been over the news due to the British exit the European Union, which this event is known as Brexit (Hunt, 2016). This decision brought a large impact on every country in Britain, but the Britain has not started negotiate with European Union about adapting regulations to minimize their negative consequences. Before people can list potential impacts of Brexit on Britain’s tourism, it is important for people to understand how well the Britain was doing in the tourism industry. In addition, it is important to analyze and understand what type of tourism impacts on Britain. So, people would know how Brexit will change its policy and what impacts will bring to their current life. It will provide an idea of how the changes of regulations will impact different countries and the region. Thus, it provides an understanding of how tourism helps to develop the Britain in terms of environmental impacts, socio-cultural impacts, and economic impacts.

Socially there was a loss of the local identity and values where the local communities had to change their festivals and religious rituals to conform to expectations of tourists. Authenticity loss was incurred due to the adjusting to the taste of tourists. Brazil and the UK also experienced a culture clash where the attitudes of the locals were affected. Visitors had to be welcomed through irritation, and potential antagonism and negative attitudes towards tourists also grew among the locals (Terrero, 2014).

The current research paper covers the main effects of global tourism, both positive and negative. International tourism is a significant sector of business. For some countries it is one of the main sources of national income. The most important positive economic effects of tourism are as follows: increase in budget revenues, production expansion, stimulation of investments, and improvement in the population’s welfare. Tourism influences social and cultural lives of people in a positive way by stimulating the development and revival of local cultures and encouraging intercultural exchange.

The significance of tourism in the Isle of Man began when sea-bathing first came into fashion, benefiting lots of seaside places such as the ‘Holiday Isle’. Tourism had a social, cultural and economic impact on the Island, and the development of it; creating more jobs which in turn resulted in an improvement in the economy. A growth in population and visitors to the island coincided with the rise in crime, a more mixed community and a change in infrastructure. Tourism also put the Isle of Man on the map and made it popular with lots of people especially from the North of England. This was due to the Industrial Revolution and Steam Packet making it an easy, accessible and cheap place to visit. This essay will assess how tourism brought change to the island and the effect of those changes. The impact will be measured by the immediate impact on the island, how many people it affected and if it left a legacy for the Island today.

These social impacts affect on the local people of host communities of their direct and indirect association with tourists. Tourists come face to face with the object of exchanging information and ideas. This situation is more important for international understandings. The tourist is mobile, relaxed, free spending; enjoying the leisure and absorbing the experience of being in a different places whereas the local people are stationary and employed in the tourist industry, spend a large portion of the time for needs and desire of visitors. The demonstration effect is also an aspect of the direct social impact of tourism. Tourist influences the behavior of the host population. The local people tend to observe and learn the life style of the richer visitors from affluent societies and try to emulate their way of life. However expansion of tourism, cause cultural commercialization, increase in crime rate, gambling, drug abuse, prostitution is common. Thus impacts of tourism on traditional life styles are important, where these traditions are considered from the basis of the tourism

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

There is deep resentment between small West End hoteliers against hotels on the beach that receive water before the entire community could be equally served. The big hotels that are serviced first are usually the primary polluters of the often overflowing and inadequate sewage plants. So, the tourism

The main positive economic impacts of tourism relate to foreign exchange earnings, contributions to government revenues, and generation of employment and business opportunities. These are discussed briefly here; further information on economic contributions from tourism can be found at the World Travel & Tourism Council 's home page.

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, but can easily be affected by several issues ranging from economic and political issues to safety and security concerns. Health issues are closely related to safety concerns, which can have a major negative impact on tourism. A current health issue that is affecting the tourism industry in the US, Caribbean, and Latin American countries is the Zika virus. The Zika virus is spread by the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquitos. It can be spread from a pregnant woman to her unborn fetus, which can result in microcephaly, along with other birth defects. Zika can also be contracted by having sex with an infected partner or by a blood transfusion. Currently, there is no treatment or vaccine to prevent being infected with the virus. According to the CDC, the best prevention method is to do everything possible to prevent mosquito bites.

Allows government to have money to do road works, school construction and all other governmental works.

The result of the study can be a source of information for future studies in which the centre of exploration are the locals residents’ mindset towards socio-cultural tourism impacts and how the industry development affects their quality of life in both positive and negative ways.

This report will analyse the relative advantages and disadvantages of tourism priorities in Libiza. Tourism has become a significant sector that has an impact on development of economics of the countries with touristic cities in the world.