6.The economic impact of tourism? Social and cultural impact of tourism As an industry‚ tourism is a dynamic‚ evolving‚ consumer-driven force. It is the world’s largest industry. It is the employer of 183 million people. This represents 10‚2% of the global workforce. By employing one out of every the workers‚ travel and tourism is the world’s largest employer. As an industry‚ tourism is expected to grow much faster than other sectors. Growing so rapidly‚ tourism presents tremendous opportunities
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Title: Authors: Tutor: Date: Keywords: Eco-friendly Flights? A Consumer’s Perspective Corina Budianschi‚ Farrah Ekeroth & Marija Milanova MaxMikael Wilde Björling May 2012 Eco-tourism‚ consumer behaviour‚ climate change‚ airline industry‚ environmental responsibility Abstract Background: The environmental impacts of tourism have recently become a high-profile topic due to the increasing amount of attention devoted to issues such as climate change. The harmful effects of aviation‚ in particular‚
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Approach The travel and tourism sector creates more jobs per million of investment than any other sector of the economy and is capable of providing employment to a wide spectrum of job seekers from the unskilled to the specialized‚ even in the remote parts of a country. The author in the following report has a brief introduction of tourism and a little bit of the industry. The report also contains what the industry’s growth is and how the visualizes itself in 2020. The Butler’s Life Cycle model
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Positive and Negative impacts of tourism across a wide range of environments Introduction Many definitions explain tourism from different scholars to suit the purposes of respective writers. In this case‚ the following definition of tourism will be of use. Tourism is ‘the activities of people traveling to as well as staying in places particularly outside their respective usual environment for at least not more than one year consecutively for leisure or business and any other purposes (Johnston
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Impact of tourism on Kenya Academic English Impact of Tourism in Kenya Tourism is the phenomenon arising from temporary visits (or stays away from home) outside the normal place of residence or usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business‚ and other purposes. Tourism implies that a person takes a journey‚ which can be of a day or various days‚ and that can be within a national boundary‚ which be classified as a domestic tourist trip or a journey which crosses
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Employment generated by tourism is categorized into direct and indirect. Direct employment is defined as jobs which are specifically created by the need to supply and serve tourists. The obvious example is those jobs created by the opening of a tourist hotel. Tourism‚ however‚ requires a large input from the construction sector‚ and those workers employed on building tourism facilities constitute a backward linkage from the tourism sector. These jobs in relation to tourism may be regarded as being
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The relationship between sport and tourism In order to understand the meaning of sport tourism‚ firstly we need to understand the term sport and tourism. Generally‚ sport can be defined as “all forms of physical activity which‚ through casual or organised participation‚ aim at expressing or improving physical fitness and mental well-being‚ forming social relationships or obtaining results in competitions at all levels” (Council Of Europe‚ 1992). Having said that‚ sport is actually a form of activity
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everywhere in the world. The interest of tourism has risen every year. There are many positive aspects of tourism. However‚ development of tourism has caused many problems as well. The big problems are traffic‚ stressful life for the local people and environmental effects. The positive side is that the tourism is the source of money for the local economy. First of all‚ tourism impacts the people and the culture of particular places. There are places where tourism causes big traffic. In most popular
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Tourism While tourism can be a powerful positive force for change in poor countries‚ it can also be seriously damaging for the local environment and culture. An increase in mass tourism that is not controlled responsibly can ruin areas of natural beauty. Tourism can damage coral reefs‚ pollute beaches and destroy the habitats of wildlife as roads and hotels are built. Ironically‚ damage to these natural resources is likely to reduce future numbers of visitors. Another negative effect is that
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Impact on the ecosystem Impact on wildlife In a study on the impact of tourist vehicles on the Maasai Mara Reserve in Kenya carried out in 1990‚ it was discovered that for the cheetah‚ it rarely fed during peak driving hours; furthermore‚ it waked off when any vehicle approached closer than 21 meters. When the lion was investigated‚ its peak feeding hours was when the tourists’ vehicles went back to their lodges for launch or to rest; it also fed early during the morning and late during the evening
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