Mass Toursim - Notes
Mass Tourism
Nhu Huynh Thi Nguyen
The World Tourism Organization’s definition of tourism is: people who are traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.
Definition of mass tourism: Mass tourism is the act of visiting a destination with large amounts of people at one time. It means a large number of people, often on package holidays with accommodation and travel included.
What is mass tourism – and how did it become like it is today?
- It’s just as the definition says
- Mass tourism could only have developed with the improvements in technology, allowing the transport of large numbers of people in a short space of time to places of leisure interest, so that greater numbers of people could begin to enjoy the benefits of leisure time. – Good advertising, better technology and transportation, higher salary, wanting to know more about the unknown places, people are more stressed and would like to relax, many companies so they are fighting over the customers by lowering the prices.
Pros and cons about mass tourism.
Pro:
1. Income from tourism/entrance fees may pay for management, conservation and repairs.
2.helps to promote the region to outsider investor
3. puts you "on the map",
4. the region builds more attraction for tourists that are often beneficial for the locals
5. people learning about your culture & way of life
6. you have the opportunity to meet people from other places and learn from them.
7. Low income jobs can be converted to provide a better living (e.g. fising boats used for coastal tours).
8. New infrastructure (airports roads, water and electricity supply) can benefit industries and local people.
9. Increases the size of the domestic economy (e.g. Spain was transformed from poor Mediterranean country).
10. Greater awareness of the need for, and interest in conservation of landscape, vegetation and wildlife.
Cons:
1. A
Nhu Huynh Thi Nguyen
The World Tourism Organization’s definition of tourism is: people who are traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes.
Definition of mass tourism: Mass tourism is the act of visiting a destination with large amounts of people at one time. It means a large number of people, often on package holidays with accommodation and travel included.
What is mass tourism – and how did it become like it is today?
- It’s just as the definition says
- Mass tourism could only have developed with the improvements in technology, allowing the transport of large numbers of people in a short space of time to places of leisure interest, so that greater numbers of people could begin to enjoy the benefits of leisure time. – Good advertising, better technology and transportation, higher salary, wanting to know more about the unknown places, people are more stressed and would like to relax, many companies so they are fighting over the customers by lowering the prices.
Pros and cons about mass tourism.
Pro:
1. Income from tourism/entrance fees may pay for management, conservation and repairs.
2.helps to promote the region to outsider investor
3. puts you "on the map",
4. the region builds more attraction for tourists that are often beneficial for the locals
5. people learning about your culture & way of life
6. you have the opportunity to meet people from other places and learn from them.
7. Low income jobs can be converted to provide a better living (e.g. fising boats used for coastal tours).
8. New infrastructure (airports roads, water and electricity supply) can benefit industries and local people.
9. Increases the size of the domestic economy (e.g. Spain was transformed from poor Mediterranean country).
10. Greater awareness of the need for, and interest in conservation of landscape, vegetation and wildlife.
Cons:
1. A