THE SOCIAL

DIMENSION
Sustainable Toursim
The Socio-Cultural Impacts of Tourism

Heritage
construction of Building using non-
traditional architectural styles.
Improvement of the quality of
museums
Theft of Artifacts by Tourists
Greater attention paid to
conservation Censorship of heritage stories
 Language

+ _
Greater interest in conserving Introduction of foreign words
traditional languages if they are into the vocabulary
seen as an attraction for tourists.
Miscommunication
 Religion

+ _
Growth in respect for Loss of spirituality at
the host religious sites that
community's religion become dominated by
from tourists. tourists.
 Traditional
Arts
+ _
Development of new markets Pressure to replace traditional
for traditional crafts and art crafts with other products which
forms tourist demands

Renaissance of traditional art Trivialization/modification of

forms traditional art forms to meet the
desires of tourists.
 Traditional Lifestyle

Increased awareness of lifestyles The growing influence of

elsewhere in the world foreign media

New Eating Habits e.g. Fast

Food
 Values and
Behavior

Adopts positive aspects of tourist Growing in Crime

values and behavior such as in the
case of the treatment of animals.
Reduce level of personal
morality.
 Host Community

In-migration of dynamic Domination of the community by

people to live and/or work in immigrants from outside the
the community community.

Reduce depopulation.
 Sex
Tourism
The hedonistic young tourist whose holiday plans are motivated by a desire to have sex with new
partners.

The so-called Shirley Valentines' married women who travel to particular destinations in the hope of
short-term romance and sex with local men.

Women and men travelling to destinations in the hope that they will find a local sexual partnet whom
they will pay with gifts and cash.

Women travelling to a destination with the single intention for sex with local men.

Men taking trips to destination to have sex with children of the same-sex.

Men taking trips to have sex with men from the local community.

Men taking trips to have sex with children of the opposite sex

Men taking trips to have sex with prostitutes.

Towards to a more Socially
Equitable Tourism
 All
Stakeholders
in tourism
should be
given fair
treatment
 Employees having
equal opportunities
irrespective of their
age, sex, race or
disability.
 Increasing the
opportunities for
everyone in the
world who wants to
take a holiday to be
able to do so.
 Local people and
staff being treated
as equals rather
than inferiors and
servants in relation
to the tourists.
Managing tourism
so the local people
can maintain their
dignity and sense
of pride in
themselves and
their communities.