The Growth Of Tourism
• Tourism is part of the tertiary sector, which involves providing services
• A tourist is someone who travels for pleasure or business. They stay away from their usual residence for over 1 day, but
less than a year.
• The tourism industry facilitates the tourists by attracting accommodating and entertaining them
- Domestic tourism: taking part in tourism within your own country
- International tourism: taking part in tourism outside of your own country
Types of tourism:
• Mass tourism: large scale tourism that involves many people visiting the same location. (e.g. Benidorm, Spain)
• Adventure tourism: tourism involving travel to remote of exotic locations in order to take part in physically challenging
outdoor activities. (e.g. Mount Everest, Nepal)
• Dark tourism: tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy (e.g. Auschwitz, Poland)
• Cultural tourism: visiting a place to engage with culture, people, history, art, architecture, religion… (e.g. Riga, Latvia)
• Eco tourism: visiting natural areas and aiming to have a low or positive impact on the environment, people & economy.
Reasons for increase in global tourism:
• Paid holiday: many companies give paid days off work for holidays • Technology: roads, internet, airplanes
• Shorter working hours: people have more free time • Elderly: old people have a lot of free time, can
• Wages increased: People have disposable income, meaning they spend savings
can spend more • Cars: People can travel shorter distances by
• Media: Social media can inspire people to visit certain place + info cars (e.g. Europe)
is easy to find • Air fares: budget airlines (e.g. Ryanair &
• Government policy: governments could invest a lot of money into Easy jet)
tourism
Negative impacts of tourism: Positive impacts of tourism:
• Foreign exchange leakage: many of the profits made • Direct & indirect employment
through tourism exit the local economy to go back to • Environmental awareness
the company headquarters in other parts of the world • Tax revenue: can stimulate economic
• Demonstration effect: tourists with liberal attitudes growth, create jobs...
clashing with conservative societies • Local traditions are shared
• Overdependence: some areas can become over reliant • Multiplier effect
on tourism for economy (problems when there is • Conservation: highlights significance of
economic recession) environment
• Inflation: higher prices of goods for local people • Improved infrastructure
• Carbon emissions: air travel is one of the biggest • Foreign direct investment: huge
emitters multinational companies and hotel chains
• Increased waste and sanitation + pollution invest in new projects in countries
• Social tensions: Local people become less tolerant of • Cultural exchange
tourists
• Seasonal employment: leaves people unemployed at
certain times of the year
• Tourism is part of the tertiary sector, which involves providing services
• A tourist is someone who travels for pleasure or business. They stay away from their usual residence for over 1 day, but
less than a year.
• The tourism industry facilitates the tourists by attracting accommodating and entertaining them
- Domestic tourism: taking part in tourism within your own country
- International tourism: taking part in tourism outside of your own country
Types of tourism:
• Mass tourism: large scale tourism that involves many people visiting the same location. (e.g. Benidorm, Spain)
• Adventure tourism: tourism involving travel to remote of exotic locations in order to take part in physically challenging
outdoor activities. (e.g. Mount Everest, Nepal)
• Dark tourism: tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy (e.g. Auschwitz, Poland)
• Cultural tourism: visiting a place to engage with culture, people, history, art, architecture, religion… (e.g. Riga, Latvia)
• Eco tourism: visiting natural areas and aiming to have a low or positive impact on the environment, people & economy.
Reasons for increase in global tourism:
• Paid holiday: many companies give paid days off work for holidays • Technology: roads, internet, airplanes
• Shorter working hours: people have more free time • Elderly: old people have a lot of free time, can
• Wages increased: People have disposable income, meaning they spend savings
can spend more • Cars: People can travel shorter distances by
• Media: Social media can inspire people to visit certain place + info cars (e.g. Europe)
is easy to find • Air fares: budget airlines (e.g. Ryanair &
• Government policy: governments could invest a lot of money into Easy jet)
tourism
Negative impacts of tourism: Positive impacts of tourism:
• Foreign exchange leakage: many of the profits made • Direct & indirect employment
through tourism exit the local economy to go back to • Environmental awareness
the company headquarters in other parts of the world • Tax revenue: can stimulate economic
• Demonstration effect: tourists with liberal attitudes growth, create jobs...
clashing with conservative societies • Local traditions are shared
• Overdependence: some areas can become over reliant • Multiplier effect
on tourism for economy (problems when there is • Conservation: highlights significance of
economic recession) environment
• Inflation: higher prices of goods for local people • Improved infrastructure
• Carbon emissions: air travel is one of the biggest • Foreign direct investment: huge
emitters multinational companies and hotel chains
• Increased waste and sanitation + pollution invest in new projects in countries
• Social tensions: Local people become less tolerant of • Cultural exchange
tourists
• Seasonal employment: leaves people unemployed at
certain times of the year
