Impact of Tourism on the Environment (Negril) Negril is situated on the western end of the island of Jamaica. It is known as the 7 mile beach even though it is slightly longer than 6.4 km in length. Negril is also called the tourism capital of Jamaica. Tourism is travel for business‚ leisure or recreational purposes and therefore has many impacts on the environment: as natural habitats both aquatic and terrestrial are being destroyed and damaged when hotels and roads are being built‚ causing pollution
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1. Country Background 2. Literature Review of Sustainable Tourism At the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro‚ Agenda 211 was adopted by 182 countries and sets out a comprehensive blueprint of actions to be taken globally‚ nationally and locally by organisations of the United Nations (UN)‚ governments‚ and major groups in every area to bring about sustainable development. Stakeholders of the travel and tourism industry including world organisations‚ governments and industries started to include
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the most important tourism destinations in the Pacific Asia region for its unique landscape and shopping convenience. According to statistics‚ a total number of 41921310 people visited Hong Kong in 2011‚ that is 16.4% more compared to 2010 (Hong Kong Tourism Board 2012).Total tourism expenditure was 263142.71 million HK dollars and shopping accounts for most of them because it is the main purpose for individual visitors (Hong Kong Tourism Board 2012). Therefore‚ to sustain tourism prosperity while
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Impact of tourism on Kenya Academic English Impact of Tourism in Kenya Tourism is the phenomenon arising from temporary visits (or stays away from home) outside the normal place of residence or usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure‚ business‚ and other purposes. Tourism implies that a person takes a journey‚ which can be of a day or various days‚ and that can be within a national boundary‚ which be classified as a domestic tourist trip or a journey which crosses
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Tourism is global phenomenon that has evolved tremendously in the past century. These transformations have depended on and benefited from the emergence of Western Capitalism and capitalist economies (Chambers 2010: 15). Initially restricted to the tourism of the “preserve of elites” (Urry 1991: 4) the “Grand Tour” has over time become an easily accessible universal experience‚ defining the characteristics of the modern man and consequently is the “largest industry in the world” (Urry 1991: 5). Although
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Tourism development in the Republic of Belarus September 2012 Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction 3 Research question 4 Research objectives 5 Literature review 5 Tourism from a Global Perspective 6 Republic of Belarus as Tourism Destination 6 Methodology 6 1. Tourism Development in Belarus. 8 2. Current Tourism Conditions and Infrastructure in the Republic of Belarus 9 3. Belarus National tourism Strategy for Agro-tourism 11 4. Problems the Belarusian tourism is
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Working title The role of food tourism in sustaining regional identity: A case study of Kerala‚ India. Background The theme of this project is to look at the role of food tourism in Kerala‚ India and in particular with reference to regional identity. There are two main questions that will need to be answered in order to understand this. Firstly is food important in sustaining the regional identity of Kerala and if so in what way. The secondary question is whether tourism affects or is affected by
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globalization of tourism. When most of the islands became independent from foreign rule they needed to build up a working economy. Some of the bigger more resource rich island nations started to produce and export goods but many of the smaller island states did not have this opportunity. When tourism started to grow‚ both types of islands benefitted a lot from it‚ but it was the most important for the smaller islands that had basically no foreign income at all. Step by step the importance of tourism grew in
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1. Introduction 1.1 Defining Tourism If we consider about tourism‚ we think mostly of people visiting a place for having a leisure time‚ learning about different cultures‚ visiting relatives or friends and participating in some business activities or keeping a further study. For further considering‚ Tourism is a multidimensional and multifaceted activity which touches many lives and different economic activities for recreational‚ leisure or business purposes. It is the sum of the phenomena and
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INTRODUCTION Malaysia has long been one of the world’s best kept tourism secrets. It is an ideal tourism destination in so many different respects as it offers a wide range of diverse attraction to suit all tastes and most importantly‚ at relatively affordable prices. Figure 1: Map of Malaysia Lying just north of the equator‚ Malaysia is located at the south of Cambodia and Vietnam and north of Singapore and Indonesia. More than one thousand islands are part of Malaysia with some 38 designated
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