The Impact of

Tourism
Chapter 1
 Objectives
At the end of the discussion, the students must be able to:
1. determine the economic effects of tourism;
2. discuss the social impact of tourism;
3. explain the impact of tourism on culture, and;
4. analyze the environmental effects of tourism.
 Introduction
The rapid growth of tourism in the twentieth
century has produced both problems and benefits
for destination countries. Although tourism can
bring many advantages to a destination country,
it also brings with it serious long-term problems
which without careful control and planning, can
threaten the society.
 Tourism Victims and/or Benefactors

01 Economy 03 Culture

02 Society 04 Environment
 01
The Economic
Effects of tourism
 The Economic Effects of Tourism

BALANCE OF
INCOME PAYMENTS

INVESTMENT
EMPLOYMENT AND
DEVELOPMENT
 INCOME

Tourism Income – come from wages and salaries, interest,

rent, and profits.

Tourism is both an income generator and an income

redistributor

National Income – the sum of all income in a country.

 EMPLOYMENT

DIRECT EMPLOYMENT – generated as a result of providing

goods and services directly to tourists. (hotel manager, flight
crew, restaurant staff, ship stewards, travel agent, taxi driver)

INDIRECT EMPLOYMENT – supplies goods and services to

the tourism industry (food wholesalers, furniture and fixture
manufacturers, laundry shop, labor agencies)

INDUCED EMPLOYMENT – generated by the spending of

people who earn their money in the tourism industry.
 BALANCE OF PAYMENTS

BALANCE OF PAYMENTS – an accounting of the flow of

goods, services, and funds in and out of the country during a
given period.

DEFICIT – if a country pays or agrees to pay more money than

it receives.

SURPLUS - if a country receives more money that it sends or

exports.
INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

ACCELERATOR CONCEPT – once an area has become

economically successful, more businessmen and government
agencies may be influenced to invest in tourism and other
industries in that area
The Negative Economic Effects of Tourism
INFLATION AND
SEASONALITY
LAND VALUES seasonality of demand is
increase in the price of reflected in hotel
products and on land occupancy rates

HIGH LEAKAGES
import of goods and OVERDEPENDENCE
services; ON TOURISM
advertising
 02
The Social Impacts
of tourism
refers to the changes in the quality of life of residents
of tourist destinations.
 The Positive Social Effects of Tourism
SOCIAL CHANGE AND ADAPTATION TO THE
MULTICULTURAL REALITIES OF MODERN
UNDERSTANDING LIFE AND IMPROVEMENT
OF THE HOST COUNTRY’S
bringing together of diverse people LIFESTYLE
to help them understand one another the improvement of facilites and
lifestyle

USE OF FOREIGN IMPROVED HEALTH

LANGUAGE CONDITIONS AND
fosters contact with other groups
of people DISEASE CONTROL
 The Negative Social Effects of Tourism
SOCIAL SATURATION COMMUNITY PROBLEMS
congestion of businesses, prostitution and other criminal
over crowding activities.

CHANGES IN SOCIAL
STRUCTURE, BEHAVIOR NEGATIVE DEMONSTRATIVE
AND ROLES EFFECTS
lowering of status of agricultural polarization of host from tourists
workers, migration of the population,
breaking up of families.
 03
The Impact of
Tourism on Culture
ACCULTURATION – changes that occur through
borrowing from other cultures. (technology,
language, and values)

CULTURAL CONVERGENCE – tendency of the

world cultures to become more alike.
 The Positive Effects of Tourism
on Culture

RENAISSANCE OF INTERCULTURAL
NATIVE CULTURE COMMUNICATION
tourism helps remind the promotes better
host of its history and culture understanding of one another
The Negative Effect of Tourism
on Culture

DESTRUCTION OF A COUNTRY’S
WORK OF ART
-artifacts, traditional objects, family heirlooms are
being bought from the locals, and sold at a higher
price in foreign lands.
-mass production
-lowering of spiritual relevance
 04
The Environmental
Impact of Tourism
(human and physical
environment)
 Positive Environmental Effects
of Tourism

CONSERVATION DEVELOPMENT RESIDENT

OF THE OF BENEFITS
ENVIRONMENT ATTRACTIONS locals get to live in
beautiful areas
 Negative Environmental Effects
of Tourism

ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGICAL RESIDENT

CONFLICTS CONFLICTS CONFLICTS
destruction of the vegetation hotels>houses
some tourists collect rocks, minerals,
pollution (land, air, water, noise) fishing/hunting areas
and fossils; others destroy natural
destruction of wildlife become smaller
formations by vandalizing
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