Tourism Is A Growing Industry
Overview
In 1950 just twenty-five million people crossed a border as tourists. By 2012 the figure had passed one billion in a single year, and it keeps climbing. Cheaper flights, longer holidays and fatter wallets have turned travel from a luxury of the rich into one of the largest industries on Earth, earning over a trillion dollars a year. For many countries a beach, a reef or a ruined temple is now their most valuable resource.
In this lesson you will learn why tourism has grown so fast, how the Butler model tracks a resort from quiet discovery to overcrowded decline, and how to weigh the jobs and foreign currency tourism brings against the pollution, leakage and cultural strain it causes, before judging the strategies, including ecotourism, that try to keep it sustainable, using a named country as your case study.
Objectives
- The factors that have led to the growth of tourism as an industry.
- The Butler model and its strengths and limitations.
- The benefits and problems caused by tourism, at a range of scales.
- An evaluation of the strategies and techniques used to sustainably manage tourism, at a range of scales.
- One detailed specific example of a named country or area to include: • reasons for the growth of tourism • the benefits and problems caused by tourism • the strategies and techniques used to sustainably manage tourism in the named country or area.
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- Which factor has NOT helped global tourism to grow? A. rising real incomes B. cheaper jet air travel C. less leisure time D. heavy marketing of holidays Answer: C
- In the Butler model, the stage where visitor numbers peak and the resort shows strain is: A. exploration B. involvement C. stagnation D. rejuvenation Answer: C
- Economic leakage in tourism refers to: A. money re-spent locally B. the share of spending that leaves the destination C. water lost from hotels D. tax paid to the host government Answer: B
- Which is an example of sustainable tourism management? A. building as many hotels as possible B. removing all visitor limits C. ecotourism with small visitor numbers D. ignoring the carrying capacity Answer: C
- The maximum number of visitors an area can take before damage occurs is its: A. multiplier effect B. carrying capacity C. leakage rate D. balance of payments Answer: B
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