Tourism Flashcards
(29 cards)
How many worldwide jobs in tourism?
- 1/11 jobs r tourism
How much of tourism is world export?
-10%
-2024
What drives this?
-Growing levels of wealth (spare money for travelling)
-Better and cheaper transport
-MNC (travel for work)
-Mobile communcation (indipendant travel easier)
began 1960s
What are long haul flights?
6 hours +
better planes
Examples of mass tourism?
-Cruise holidays
-Resorts in Spain
Cruise passengers 1999 vs 2019
-9 million
-25 million
How much average cruise passenger spend in local country?
-£40
How much more CO2 cruise vs long haul flight?
per mile
-0.17kg
How much rubbish by each cruse ship passeger daily?
3.5 kg
0.8kg avg Caribbean
How much china spend on forgein holidays?
- $229 Billion
vs Uk $60 billion
Negatives of tourism?
-Most hotels owned by EU
-40-80% money spent goes to MNC’s that own hotel chain or airline (not locally)
-
What is Mexico?
NIC
How many vist mexico?
19 million
How many mexicans work in tourism?
5 million
How does tourism support mexico?
-Direct employment (hotel, airport)
-Indirect employment (sell more food/building materials)
Cancan, Mexico:
1970s vs now
-Small fishing village
-Largest mass tourist resort in Caribbean
How many hotels does Cancun have?
mexico
-150
-35,000
How much made from tourism in Cancun Mexico?
$4.36 billion
How negitively affecting Cancun?
-Tourist enclave
- Tourists no need to leave hotel or spend money locally
-Private beaches (locals have no access)
-Beaches owned by state but controlled by hotels
How many jobs tourism made in Cancun?
-52,000
-175,000 indirectly
Tourism in Cancun negitavely affect workers?
-Seasonal (only good weather)
-Workers suddenly laid off
What is Cancun built on?
-Long thin sand barrier (Cancun-Nizuc)
-Lagoon behind flled with mangrove forest
Tourism negitavely affect environment?
-Sewage from resort spreads disease in coral reefs
-Dredging on beaches 1970s-80s
-Mangroves cleared + polluted lagoon
-Plants removed from beaches to make attractive (more easily erroded)
-Subsidence due to high rise hotels
more vulnerable to natural disasters
What hurricane affected Cancun most?
-Wilma 2005
-Damaged $19 million (hotels)
-Eroded 20m sand from beach
-Beach replenished 2016 (cost $19 million)
