Unit 10 Travel

Pros and cons of tourism

Miss M.Bastas

Pros and cons of tourism.

Tourism promotes the creation
of employment in
local areas and communities.

Tourism permits a
Tourism helps locals learn
Governments
money
Natural landscapes
can use
Positive
cultural exchange between
more about their own culture from tourismto buildNegative
schools
heritage may be dam
local people and tourists so
and traditions and also helps and improve hospitals.
huge numbers of v
they can learn from each other.
them preserve it.
tourists and their ac

Tourists can damage wildlife Profits dont always stay in a Tourism developments can have
when they feed or hunt
local area. They go to a
a negative impact on the
animals.
bigger municipality.
local environment.
e.g Building a hotel on the coast.
Local
communities benefit from
improved infrastructure and
facilities created with money
from tourism.

Local artisans can sell their

products/ crafts to tourists
and improve their living
conditions.

Tourists can help local

communities through voluntary
Ecotourism can have a
work.
negative impact on protected
e.g work as a language
wild-life areas
teacher at a local school
e.g Geysers del Tatio.

A difference in values between

tourists and locals can cause
a conflict
e.g. How
tourists act or how they dress in
front of the locals.
Developments may be
owned by multinationalsmanagement positions may
be occupied by foreign
workers.

Many tourism jobs are

seasonal, low skilled,
part-time and low paid.

The local population c

new skills through to

Local infrastructure is not

enough to cope with large
numbers of tourists
e.g. Water and waste.

Profits from tourism ca

maintain cultural he
and traditions

Tourists can frustrate locals Tourists can pollute an

and affect their daily
places of great impor
lives because of the noise,
locals and to the co
drugs and alcohol they bring. i.e A wildfire in Torres

Read the following statements in relation to tourism and tourists and decide if they are positive or
negative.