The large scale impacts of Tourism include environmental‚ socio-cultural and economic impacts. Impacts can be positive‚ as well as negative‚ but should never be underestimated. The concept of sustainability is factored into these tourism impacts‚ when the size of the impacts become large enough to drastically alter economic‚ socio-cultural and environmental areas of a tourist destination. The importance of these impacts will be analysed and evaluated in this essay‚ keeping in mind that this will
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Discuss the environmental and social impacts of tourism in the UK and consider whether the benefits exceed the costs. Tourism is a fast growing industry and a valuable sector‚ contributing significantly to the economy (“The Social & Cultural Impacts of Tourism”‚ n.d.). It has been generally accepted that tourism is‚ for the most part and with relatively few exceptions‚ beneficial to both generating and destination countries (Holloway‚ 2009‚ p. 114). Some researchers are less sure that this
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a journey can be called a tourist. Over the decades‚ tourism has experienced continued growth and deepening ?diversification to become one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the world. Tourism has become a thriving global industry with the power to shape developing countries in both positive and negative ways. No doubt it has become the fourth largest industry in the global economy. Similarly‚ in developing countries like India tourism has become one of the major sectors of the economy‚ contributing
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Environmental Impacts and Sustainable Development of Rural Tourism The paper intends to study the environmental impacts and sustainable development of rural tourism. As Wall (2006) mentions‚ there are large quantities of research papers on economic impacts of tourism. Besides‚ considerable statistics greatly ease the analyses and measurements. The environmental impacts of tourism have been paid more and more attention in recent years; but due to debate on indicators and some other objective barriers
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term also covers all the activities performed during a travel (movement). A person who travels is spelled "traveler" in the United States‚ and "traveller" in the United Kingdom. Purpose and motivation Reasons for traveling include recreation‚ tourism or vacationing‚ research travel for the gathering of information‚ for holiday to visit people‚ volunteer travel for charity‚ migration to begin life somewhere else‚ religious pilgrimages and mission trips‚ business travel‚ trade‚ commuting‚ and other
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http://goindia.about.com/b/2013/04/03/how-are-safety-concerns-affecting-foreign-tourism-in-india.htm How are Safety Concerns Affecting Foreign Tourism in India? If recent news reports are to be believed‚ the writing is on the wall. There has been a 25% drop in the number of foreign tourists visiting India over the last three months‚ following a widely publicized spate of sexual attacks on women. Even worse‚ the number of foreign female tourists has decreased substantially‚ by 35%‚ over the same
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Tourism in India - 13 million child labour in tourism sector India Booming in Child Labour! Its shameful to know that India as an emerging market or power has rampant growth of child labour as well. Tourism in India is booming….growing….scaling new heights…country is earning well in foreign exchange but there is dark side to this story. As per the International Labour Organisation‚ 13 million children are employed in tourism sector in India which is gross violation of law and illegal. The law
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India is famous as the land of stunning beauty and overall history that can be seen in its culture‚ tradition‚ and geography. There are lots of tourism opportunities in this country as like: Wildlife‚ hill station‚ beach‚ ancient Ayurveda‚ backwater‚ Adventure‚ Cultural‚ monument‚ village pilgrimage‚ monsoon‚ etc are predominant tourism options available in this country. India’s exhilarating beauty has been attracted to visitor since long years. Each part of India is worth exploring and worth enjoying
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school | Economics of Tourism | Research Work | | Hassan Rafique | 11/30/2011 | An insight to the economic potential of Pakistan in terms of tourism | Table of Contents A General Abstract…………………………………………………….. 3 Heritage Tourism………………………………………………………. 4 Religious/ Spiritual or Pilgrimage Tourism………………………….. 4 Cultural Tourism……………………………………………………….. 4 Adventure or Eco Tourism……………………………………………. 4 Wildlife Tourism………………………………………………………… 5 Sports Tourism…………………………………………………………
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Tourism in India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Every year‚ more than 3 million tourists visit the Taj Mahal in Agra‚ Uttar Pradesh. Tso Moriri Lake‚ Ladakh Tourism in India is a large industry. The World Travel and Tourism Council calculated that tourism generated $121 billion or 6.4% of the nation’s GDP in 2011. It was responsible for 39.3 million jobs‚ 7.9% of its total employment. The GDP of the tourism sector has expanded
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