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Tourism and Social Media - Coggle Diagram
Tourism and Social Media
Positive
Tourists can easily access the information through the Internet; for example, tourists can get information about a destination, provided by people who have experience of it, and decide from different opinions.
source of information for tips and real experiences. In this way social media conditions people's decisions regarding destination picking.
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trust in what a young person explains and shares about their own personal experience with their own reduced budget than what an agency tells you.
Negative
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Overtourism
Social and/or cultural conflicts, as well as socialization, between visitors and residents.
Worsen tourist experiences in tourist destinations and lowers the quality of life of local residents.
Examples
Town of Wanaka in New Zealand saw a tourism increase by 14% when promoters invited social media influencers to visit the lakeside city.
Six-month shutdown of Boracay island in the Philippines beginning last year on the order from president Rodrigo Duterte.
2 million tourists arrived in Iceland last year, in contrast to the country’s population of less than 350,000. Much of the increase is attributed to social media.
Machu Picchu. 1.2 million people visited the site in 2014. This year Peruvian officials instituted a strict ticketing policy, giving visitors access for a limited number of hours.
Maya Bay saw approximately 2.5 million visitors in 2018, and averaged roughly 4000 visitors per day to its small surroundings. The crowds and boats destroyed large parts of the coral reefs which, in turn, killed off much of the rare sea life in the area too.
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