Impacts of Urban 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.

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.

1.2 List the key attractions and experiences that entice visitors to your town/city. In addition to answering this question, a 30 second to 2 minute promotional video clip highlighting the key attractions and experiences in your town/city must be included as a part of your submission.

Many things will affect people’s decision to travel, the destinations they choose and for how long they stay. Different destinations are affected by different factors, here we will explore these factors and the destinations they effect.

Gillian Dale (2010). Travel and Tourism level 3 Book 1. Oxford: Pearson Education Limited. 122-124.

When these tourists come to vacation in LA, they already have a picture in mind of what they’re coming to see. They think of Los Angeles and may have thoughts of the “Glamorous Hollywood,” with images in mind of red carpets, celebrities, and rich movie stars parading up and down the streets in flowing gowns and tuxedos. They most likely are coming with a list of popular attractions and famous landmarks that they will try to cram into their itinerary. MacCannell says: “Modern international sightseeing possesses its own moral structure, a collective sense that certain sights must be seen.” This “moral structure of tourism” he discusses is how specific attractions are seen as important enough to be a “must see” in a tourist’s trip to a destination. These attractions have been deemed worthy, and in a sense make up what is known to be as an authentic replication of the location. Through this list they hope to experience and witness the authentic Los Angeles. MacCannell states that: “Modern Humanity has been condemned to look elsewhere, everywhere, for authenticity, to see if we can catch a glimpse of it reflected in the simplicity, poverty, chastity, or purity of others.” Yet how can tourists believe that this true authenticity will be found at a place such as Griffith Park? It showcases amazing views of the city, but does not let us see what Los

Many years ago, Athens, Greece, was viewed as a necessary part of any tour of Europe. Then the city developed an image of a smoggy city choked with traffic. During the _____ stage of its attempt to reposition Athens as a culture-filled destination for conventions, the Greek government realized package tour operators (a source of much of the tourist traffic in Greece) were unimpressed by the proposal to paint the facades of the buildings in Athens and to plant 100s of trees and bushes.

Urbanization has changed their function from social gathering places to tourist

MacCannell makes it very clear that creating and restoring tourists’ destinations, promoting certain experiences, and offering every tourist their own idea of history. It helps create an economy of human experiences and memories that each tourist can hold near to them.  MacCannell explains that tourism is “cultural production” meaning you need a tourist attraction. There are 3 main components that make up a tourist attraction: a marker, a sight, and a tourist. MacCannell goes on to explain that the marker is the most important part of a tourist attraction because without the marker the tourist would not recognize the site which at that point would not exist.

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 &

“The Myth of Venice”: How Cultural Strongholds in Early Modern Europe led to the makings of a Tourism Magnet

Choosing the location of a phenomenal monument could be the most important decision an agency will ever have to make. Just by the location, visitors will have preconceived notions of trust, happiness, sadness, or skepticism. One well-known example of this is Mount Rushmore. The location of this famous monument can be used to show both beneficial and detrimental elements of location. “It’s easy to feel affection for Mount Rushmore’s strange grandeur.” (Downes) The

The use of natural resources to attract tourists, if successful, leads to the obligation of an infrastructure upon ‘nature’. Over time, it is the manmade structures that maintain the desirability of the tourist resort, not the natural features that prompted the original.(Ryan, 1991) Thus by focusing too much on attracting tourists

In a sense the circulated images that cities use for promotion, leads tourists to believe that these representations are absolute thus ingraining potentially false beliefs about a destination. Also, Morgan and Pritchard (1998) argue that there is a powerful force behind the media promotion of tourism images. They claim that images are social products that function ‘to reinforce ideas, values and meaning systems at the expense of alternative ways of seeing the world’ (Morgan and Pritchard 1998:5). By exposing the restrictive power of tourist images one can look critically at promotional material that permeates our everyday lives.

The World Travel Organization predicts that it will triple in size by the year 2020, becoming one of the largest industries in the world. This growth will provide many employment opportunities for people with the right qualifications.