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THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM - Coggle Diagram
THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
THE SOCIAL DIMENSION
The scope of the social dimension of sustainable tourism
Foreign tour operators
Destination government
The tourist
Local tourism industry
Host community
The focus is the ‘host community’
The desire to ‘protect’ host communities from the excesses and negative effects of tourism.
To develop more sustainable forms of tourism:
Equity (stakeholders)
Equal opportunity (employees and tourists)
Ethics (tourism industry ,suppliers, host population, tourists)
Equal partners (tourists treatment)
The potential impacts of tourism on host cultures and communities
Heritage
Language
Religion
Traditional arts
Host population
Values and behavior
Traditional lifestyles
Host-guest relationships
The relationship between tourists and local people has 5 major features:
It is short term. Relationships are superficial.
Tourist are under pressure due to short time period which make them irritated for any delay
Host-tourist relation tend to lack spontaneity
Host-guest relations are often unbalanced in nature
Tourist are often segregated from local people
These characteristics impose a negative impacts to the concept of sustainable tourism.
The key to the socio-cultural impacts of tourism is the relationship between hosts and guests.
THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION
LEAKAGE
Depends on the economic background:
High leakage
Areas in developing countries with economy based largely on primary production such as agriculture
Low leakage
Well-established major tourist destinations in developed countries
When the private or public sector purchases goods or services from sources outside the community, that money is no longer subject to the multiplier effect and the economic benefits leak out of the community.
Economic benefits and costs of tourism
BENEFITS
Job creation
Injection of income into the local economy through the multiplier effect
Keep local business viable
Regeneration of the economies of towns and cities
Stimulates industrial investment
COSTS
Jobs are low paid/seasonal
Opportunity costs (money invested cannot be used for other purposes)
Congestion
Need to invest in expensive infrastructure
Overdependence on tourism
THE ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSION
The scope of the concept of the environment
Natural resources
The natural environment
The built environment
Wildlife
The farmed environment
Major potential impacts of tourism on the natural environment
Natural resources
Pollution
Erosion
Visual impact
Floral and faunal species composition