Outline Describe the typical social‚ cultural and environmental impacts experienced by tourist destinations in developing countries Social impacts * Increase in variety of jobs available * Seasonal employment * Price inflation * Economic leakage Cultural impacts * Market for traditional crafts and/or rituals grows * New patterns of dress and behaviour may cause problems Environmental impacts * Provision of new intrastructure‚ e.g. roads * Increased pressure
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fulfilled. TOURISM IMPACTS Tourism impacts are the effects that tourists and tourists activities have on a destination. We will be looking at three main types of impacts that tourism can have on a destination. They are environmental‚ socio-cultural as well as economic impacts. The word impact gives a negative meaning however tourism impacts can be both positive and negative on a destination. Environmental Impacts (physical – what can be seen) – It is not possible to develop tourism without incurring
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Indigenous Tribes and climate Change Impacts: The Environmental Impacts of climate Change and Loss of resources Kirsten Chu Overview This research analyzed the different types of informational content of a sample of various reources using a basic grounded theory methodology. This research was conducted to correlate with the issue: How Inuit communities are subjected to environmental influence due to climate change. The Analysis revealed that many changes in the environment have impeded the everyday
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Selected Issues Research Project The economic and environmental impact of growing tourism on local populations and resources at Galapagos Islands December 11‚ 2011 Ecotourism‚ one of the most important and stronger trends nowadays is rapidly growing at Galapagos Islands in Ecuador‚ since we can now refer to Galapagos’ tourism as “mass tourism” there are now several consequences that need to be taken care of. Certainly it has become in one of the most important profit maker for the country
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The cultural impacts of tourism on the host communities The impact that tourism has on the cultural lives of communities is one of the most important issues debated by tourism researchers and academics today. There is an increasingly growing concern that tourism development is leading to destinations losing their cultural identity by catering for the perceived needs of tourists. Although they take longer to appear‚ the cultural consequences of tourist activity have the potential to be much
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GENERAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF NUCLEAR BOMBS According to the movie‚ TRINITY AND BEYOND: THE ATOMIC BOMB MOVIE‚ on July the sixteenth year 1945‚ at a site called "Trinity"‚ a plutonium bomb ’ was piled and taken up the top of a tower. This plutonium bomb ’ was exploded thereby generating a very high measure of flash light and a fireball that radiated through 0.6 kilometers (0.37 miles) in 2 seconds. The detonative energy or power was equivalent to 18.6 kilotons of TNT. This fume grew up
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Environmental and Social Impacts of Offshore Wind Farms in Botany Bay; When planning offshore wind farms the following impacts are studied to make sure the purposed project has a net benefit environmentally. Steps can then be taken to manage any negative impact resulting from the construction of the wind farms. Environmental Impact: Botany Bay has a diverse marine life the impact of the wind turbines on the environment; have surprisingly shown to produce artificial reefs. A recent study;
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star restaurants‚ and the success of cookbooks which always reach a high volume of sales. It has obviously revealed that people do not eat to live‚ yet‚ people live to eat (www.slowfoodpiedmont.org). In Malaysia‚ food is tightly connected to the social and cultural lives since it is a multiracial country that consists of 3 main races‚ which are Malays‚ Chinese‚ and Indians as well as other minority aborigines. Various types of cuisine have become a natural
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The tourism industry has grown exponentially over the previous twenty years‚ it is now a worldwide industry‚ both in terms of tourists and host destinations‚ and ‘is no longer confined to the developed countries that traditionally provided the demand for world travel’ (Page & Connell‚ 2006‚ pp.4). World leaders have long been recognising the huge economic advantages that a booming tourism industry can bring to their nations‚ and vast amounts of money have been invested set up the infrastructure to
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Environmental Impact by the Lapita Ursula V. P. Belyayeva Abstract The Lapita initial expansion was around 3500-3200 BP our goal is to investigate what initiated the expansion of the Lapita people from Near to Remote Oceania. By using push factor‚ we believe that the push condition was the over intensification of resources due to population pressure‚ which caused marine‚ agricultural and fauna depression and initiated the Lapita dispersal. From various archaeological studies‚ pollen can demonstrate
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