The Alternative Forms Of Tourism

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

Las Palmas, the capital of Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands in Spain is a beautiful place to visit during the holiday. A subtropical climate, mild to warm temperatures which stay quite the same throughout the entire year and sandy beaches tempt tourists every year. These great features promote the tourism in Las Palmas. Literally tourism, or in this case, mass tourism, is a move of people around the world. It is all about presenting the character of a touristic destination and providing great facilities in order to satisfy customers (tourists) desires and their changing, dynamic needs, mainly focusing on their preferences. If tourism was not provided in Las Palmas, people would go bankrupt as tourism states 32% of GDP in

This article brings to our knowledge and explains about the overall impact of tourism by taking the four species of macropodids (Onychogalea faenata, Macropus rufogriseus, Wallabia bicolor and Macropus giganteus) in a sanctuary as their study samples. A few negative impacts were observed on different methods of approach and study and so it is concluded that, tours in vehicles would be better to minimize those impacts rather than on foot. The study of this article proves to be worth reporting as it exposes and creates the awareness in general about the negative impacts on different species due to increasing human population and their approach towards them.

According to Burkart and Medlik (1974), mass tourism can be defined as a large numbers of people visiting a destination at a time. Jafari’s (1989, 2001) platform model explains the transition of the tourism industry with 4 stages. These 4 stages are: Advocacy, Cautionary, Adaptancy and Knowledge-Based platform. The first stage would be Advocacy platform, this was when travelling was encouraged as it does not only benefits the tourism sector but also other sectors such as the economic sector which is the increase of revenues and employment and the sociocultural sector which creates the opportunity for other to learn about the different cultures around the world. The following platform would be Cautionary platform; this is when people start to be aware that there are not only positive impacts but also negative impacts for the tourism destinations unless there is careful planning and regulation imposed. For example, it creates jobs that do not require much skill set and it is mostly only seasonal. Adaptancy platform would be when solutions start to arise in order to reduce the negative impacts of tourism and also this is when there is an emergence of alternative tourism.

a. What is your understanding of the concept of 'critical thinking' and why are these skills important for post-graduate studies in tourism? (250 words) Critical thinking is the quest to find out what assumptions are behind a question or a concept. The method for this examination has been around since Socrates and it also has roots in other ancient philosophies. Critical thinking is essential in any educational discipline because it is the process by which questioning and then learning take place.

The concept of Ecotourism ( a concept pioneered during the early 1970’s to combat the negative impacts of mass tourism) is defined as “environmentally conscious, enlightening travel, to relatively undisturbed natural areas in order to enjoy and appreciate nature, while promoting local environmental conservation…and providing local socio-economic benefits through the participation of the local communities”. Responsible ecotourism programs are those that (1) minimize negative aspects of mass tourism on the environment, (2) contributes to environmental preservation efforts, (3) is economically beneficial for the local population and, (4) educates the tourist themselves. Ecotourism today is one of the tourism industry 's fastest growing subsector, with an estimated global annual growth of 15-19%. With this much money involved, governments as well as, tourism corporations heavily promote ecotourism programs, with their claims of environmental and social sensitivity but, there exist well founded concerns on its actual environmental impact, and whether it is viable as a solution to the world 's environmental problems. In this paper we will try to dissect the supposed benefits brought by ecotourism and provide an alternative and more viable solution.

Brown (2008) states that volunteer tourism includes different aspects and environmental protection is a kind of volunteer tourism. According to Brown (2008), volunteer tourism, or voluntourism, refers to the tours which provide travelers opportunities to participate in voluntary activities and enable them to communicate with local people. The participants have different mindsets on voluntourism (Brown, 2008), some of them is volunteer-minded while the others are vacation-minded. The main reasons for the participants to participate in this type of tourism are cultural immersion, to help the less privileged and seeking friendship and educational opportunity for children. It is generally accepted that voluntourism brings some benefits to the participants

In recent times, with the improvement of people’s living standards, the demand of traveling is increasingly rising. According to the UNWTO, the number of tourists traveling oversea yearly is over one billion (World Tourism Organization, 2016). Not only has this massive figure made tourism one of the key industries, it also makes up 10% of worldwide GDP and 6% of the total export turnover of the world (T. Rifai, 27 September 2015, personal communication). Tourism is a “fertile ground” for all nations in the world, especially developing countries to boost their economic growth, preserve their own proud culture and protect the environment. However, apart from these advantages, the disadvantages that it brings are undeniable. Tourism has both positive and negative effects on the economy, environment and society.

Responsible tourism/travel is about making better places for people to live in and better places for people to visit. It also means that you travel lightly, with a small carbon footprint, respecting people and places, while making a positive contribution where possible. Ecotourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry worldwide. It has spawned voluntourism, wildlife tourism and geotourism (tourism to areas of geological interest.) There’s also a growing interest in ‘sustainable tourism’, whereby tourism businesses that aren’t essentially nature-based. Including hotels and airlines, are finding ways to operate more sustainably.

Planning and development are both extremely important factors within the tourism industry and can have both positive and negative effects on the environment, local communities and tourist destinations. “Destination planning aims to limit the negative impacts of cultural tourism upon the history and lifestyles of the local community. An understanding of sustainable tourist development allows for the development of culture without loss of its authentic identity” (Maidment. T. 2012). This statement discusses the importance of planning to avoid having any negative impacts on environments and communities. Because the effects of tourism are so severe to destinations, many natural and cultural resources have been destroyed, therefore tourism planning is vital to preserve and maintain these places for future generations.

Travelling can sometimes have a bad reputation, but there are responsible travel companies out there and eco-friendly travel is possible. In fact, if you are smart at picking your destinations, using guides like The Outbound Collective, you can put money into local communities and help people in the remote and poor parts of the world prosper. By visiting these destinations, you can help preserve them and grow the local economies.

Three different types of tourism that I will discuss are dark shrines, dark conflict sites, and dark camps of genocides. Therefore, dark resting places are based on the act of remembrance for the recently deceased. Dark shrines are often located close to or at the scene of a death, and usually within a short period after the incident which led to the death. Also, dark conflict sites are where war and battlefields fit into this category and their use of tourism sites have been known about for centuries. Tourist have visited the scene of the Battle of Waterloo even as it was being fought in 1815. Additionally, dark camps of genocides are seen as occupying the darkest edges of the dark tourism spectrum, death camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, and Buchenwald attract thousands of visitors each year. Thus, people are drawn to these dark tourist sites because is where they can remember the deceased last moments at the place that they’ve pasted. Also, people are motivated because, either is part of their history or because people want to see where certain people died. As a result, it becomes a popular activity and more people decide to past by and pay their “respect” or take a few pictures to capture the moment. Also, people should be allowed to go to these places if it were of an influential person or if it significantly became a part of the town or country’s history. Correspondingly, I don’t believe they should be closed off to tourist, especially if

Ecotourism is directed towards natural, fragile and relatively undisturbed environments, intended to support conservation efforts, economical benefits for local communities, observe wildlife in natural environments and as an educational alternative (Scheyvens, 1999). Developed and maintained to remain sustainable indefinitely, causing no change, alterations or degradation to the environment and surrounding areas (Reynolds and Brathwaite, 2001).

According to the World Tourism Organization, tourism is the world's number one export earner, ahead of automotive products and petroleum, with more than 600 million people travelling to foreign countries during 2000, spending more than US$ 400 billion and all the tourism receipts internationally have total to more than US$ 500 billion. With all the people on the move, available space and time, affordable airfares, new, exciting destination and globalization, clearly resulted to the growth of tourism (Burns, 2005).

Miami is one of the most popular cities visited by all types of tourists from around the world. Visitors mainly travel by air and arrive at Miami International Airport. In 2016, Miami welcomed 15.7 million overnight visitors (i.e. tourists) from around the world. Those tourists spent $25 billion, with 70% of that money coming from international visitors (Mody, 2017). Many people also embark on cruises from PortMiami to destinations around the world. Whether the visitor is coming to spend a few days in the city or is “driving-through” for a cruise, most tourists prefer to visit during October through April, when the weather is less humid (Maxwell, 2016).