Sustainable Tourisim Flashcards
Key terms (8 cards)
Tourisim
The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people “traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes”[
Sustainable Tourisim
Meeting the needs of the
present tourists and their host communities and environments whilst protecting and enhancing tourist, Community and environmental needs in the future. (using tourist sites in a way today that won’t harm opportunities for tourism in the future)
Environmental impacts
These can be positive or negative changes to a location
(environment) due to the presence of tourism in an area,
e.g. vegetation trampling is a negative environmental
impact.
Social Impacts
The impacts of tourism in a social context might be negative such as second home ownership leading to loss of affordable homes for local communities in National Parks.
They may also be positive such as the development of facilities in destinations that local community residents may use as well as tourists. These can also include cultural impacts.
Economic Impacts
Impacts upon the economy result in changes to jobs, income and prices These may be negative or positive, seasonal or long-term.
Growth Pole
A place or region where a high level of investment (money spent in an area) means more economic growth. This economic growth may spread, to a lesser extent, to the wider surrounding area.
Multiplier effect
When a new or expanding economic activity in an area creates new employment and increases the amount of money in an area. Then this attracts further economic development, creating more employment and more wealth.
Example: When a tourist attraction opens up, hotels and restaurants are built. If these are successful, more shops and restaurants are built making more money.
Direct Impact
Jobs that are created directly from the tourist activity (hotels, leisure, restaurants, transport).
