Apr 27
EFFECTS OF TOURISM
Pros and Cons of tourism
| POSITIVE |
NEGATIVE |
- Income for local people
- maintains essential service
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- Seasonal employment
- Low wages
- Rural depopulation (Low wages, but house prices are high. Need to move to a larger settlement for higher wages, lower house prices.)
- Pollution
- Congestion
- Erosion of lake shores
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How to sustain tourism
- restricting number of cars and visitors
- education on ‘how to maintain a sustainable tourism’ to local people and tourists
- fundraising to repair damage
Effects on tourism by LEDC
| POSITIVE |
NEGATIVE |
- foreign currency for investing in improving local services
- more jobs
- infrastructure
- visitors
- tourists educated about dangers to nature
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- profits go to tourism companies, and not much to the local community
- foreign companies will bring foreign skilled workers, so the local people will only be able to do the low-skill, low-paid jobs.
- pollution and disruption
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Tourism Field Work at Kamakura
- Our aim was to know where tourists come from.
↳Kamakura Daibutsu Fieldwork Project (PDF File)
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