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Sustainable Tourism Planning and Development
Chapter 7
Tourism Impact
By
Aj. Wachara Chaiyakhet
Department of Service Industry, Hatyai Business School, Hatyai University
What can we get
from tourism?
Economic
growth
Conservation
Awareness
Quality of life
Job creation
Experiences
Restoration
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got two sides
• Creates employment opportunities
for local people.
• Promotes cultural awareness and
can help preserve local culture and
traditions.
• Income from tourists can be used
to develop local infrastructure and
services.
Positive effects of tourism
• Foreign currency can help local
people.
• Natural features that attract tourists
in the first place can be protected
using income from tourism.
Positive effects of tourism
• Tourism can have a negative
environmental impact. This is at a
range of scales. The increase in air
travel has contributed towards
increased carbon dioxide emissions.
On a local level natural features
that attract tourists are themselves
under threat due to human
actions.
Negative effects of tourism
• Often local people are employed in
low skill, poorly paid work in
unsatisfactory working conditions.
• Travel agents, airline companies
and hoteliers benefit more than local.
• Help destroy local culture and
traditions
Negative effects of tourism
Tourism Impact will effect to …?
Three types of impacts
derived from tourism
Environmental
Impacts
construction of
general
infrastructure
tourism
facilities
roads
airports
rail
port
resorts
marinas
golf courses
shops
restaurants
hotels
Environmental Impacts
Environmental Impacts
Socio-Cultural
Impacts
changes in value
systems and behavior
threatens
indigenous identity
family relationships
collective traditional life
styles
ceremonies and morality
community structure
Socio-Cultural Impacts
Socio-Cultural Impacts
Economic Impacts
of Tourism
Benefits to both host
countries and tourists'
home countries
A region to promote
itself as a tourism
destination
Economic Impacts of Tourism
Economic Impacts of Tourism
Factor that influence tourism impact
Economic
Natural
disasters
Political
Pestilence
Infrastructure