Sociocultural Benefits

Sociocultural Benefits
1. Promotion of cross-cultural understanding
Direct contacts between tourists and residents can serve to dispel sterotypes
-stereotypes文化差異

2. Incentive to preserve culture and heritage
Tourism stimulates the presentation or restoration of historical buildings and sites.
-Directly: through the collection of entrance fees
-Indirectly: allocation of general tourism revenue

3. Fostering of social wellbeing and stability
-Creating jobs
-area beautification
-airports, public transportation
-provide entertainment, shopping, restaurants choices
-introducing electricity, anti-crime measures, paved roads
-offering better services and health standards

4. Commodification 商品化
Strategies to minimize the commodification process:
Frontstage: an area where commercial and modified performance are provided for the bulk of visitors.
Backstage: an area where personal or intragroup activities occur, such as non-commercialised cultural performance.

5. Prostitution
Become a formal or informal business sectors as a result of tourist demand

6. Demostration effects
Problems occur when:
Residents gravitate towards the luxurious goods paraded by the wealthier tourists.

Results:
-produce envy, jealousy, anger
-theft, mugging and murder
- tension between older and younger as younger reject local culture as inferior, favouring modern influences

Factor contributing to sociocultural costs:
1. Extensive inequality in wealth between tourists and residents
2. Cultural and behavioural differences between tourists and residents
3. Overly intrusive or exclusive contact
4. Dependency
5. High proportion of tourists relative to the local population
6. Rapid growth of tourism
7. Different expectations with respect to authenticity

Environment benefits
1. Protect and enhance their environment assets

Environment Costs
1. Permanents environmental restructuring
2. Generation of waste residuals
3. Tourism activities

Management Implications
1. Sustainable tourism development 可持續
2. Policies to prevent over-exploitation
3. All tourism-related activity causes a certain amount of stress. Issue is not to avoid but reduce to an acceptable level.
4. Acceptability is impacted by the perception of benefit received.
5. Need to control the carrying capacity
6. Impacts are incremental and long-term.