Tourism: Culture and Primary Products
Disadvantage of Tourism in Nepal
1. Cultural destruction
2. Primary products
3. Environmental destruction
4. Marginal employment
5. Low benefits
6. Development of illegal and/or destructive economic activities
7. Outside hiring
8. unable market
9. Health tourism has it own set of unique challengers
10. Cruises
11. Package programs
12. Seasonal employment
"Disadvantages of tourism"
Disadvantages (depending upon implementation some of these can turn into advantages)
• cultural destruction, (modernization (world mono-culture), freezes culture as performers, loss: language, religion, rituals, material culture.)
• primary products (sun, sand, surf, safari, suds, ski, sex) (little value added, neo-colonialism)
• environmental destruction (game drives, resorts: golf, ski, beach, desert, world as play ground, SUV.)
• marginal employment (low skill, low wage, menial services, prostitution, drug trade, gambling, hustlers.)
• low benefits (no job security, no health care, no organizing, no work safety rules or enviro standards.)
• development of illegal and/or destructive economic activities (markets for drugs, endangered species, etc.)
• outside hiring (skilled middle and senior management recruited out of the area and transferred in.)
• concentration employment (walled resort enclaves.)
• seasonal employment
• outside decision making (decisions made outside of the area, corporate dollars corrupt government.)
• unrealistic expectations (divert young people from school and brighter futures.)
• anti-democratic collusion (industry support of repressive governments)
• land controlled by the elite (people relocated, agriculture eliminated, prohibited from N.P.)
• negative lifestyle's (STD's, substance abuse, begging, hustling)
• diverted and concentrated development (airport, roads, water, electricity to tourist destinations, development not accessible to locals),
• little forex stays in country (airplanes,
1. Cultural destruction
2. Primary products
3. Environmental destruction
4. Marginal employment
5. Low benefits
6. Development of illegal and/or destructive economic activities
7. Outside hiring
8. unable market
9. Health tourism has it own set of unique challengers
10. Cruises
11. Package programs
12. Seasonal employment
"Disadvantages of tourism"
Disadvantages (depending upon implementation some of these can turn into advantages)
• cultural destruction, (modernization (world mono-culture), freezes culture as performers, loss: language, religion, rituals, material culture.)
• primary products (sun, sand, surf, safari, suds, ski, sex) (little value added, neo-colonialism)
• environmental destruction (game drives, resorts: golf, ski, beach, desert, world as play ground, SUV.)
• marginal employment (low skill, low wage, menial services, prostitution, drug trade, gambling, hustlers.)
• low benefits (no job security, no health care, no organizing, no work safety rules or enviro standards.)
• development of illegal and/or destructive economic activities (markets for drugs, endangered species, etc.)
• outside hiring (skilled middle and senior management recruited out of the area and transferred in.)
• concentration employment (walled resort enclaves.)
• seasonal employment
• outside decision making (decisions made outside of the area, corporate dollars corrupt government.)
• unrealistic expectations (divert young people from school and brighter futures.)
• anti-democratic collusion (industry support of repressive governments)
• land controlled by the elite (people relocated, agriculture eliminated, prohibited from N.P.)
• negative lifestyle's (STD's, substance abuse, begging, hustling)
• diverted and concentrated development (airport, roads, water, electricity to tourist destinations, development not accessible to locals),
• little forex stays in country (airplanes,