Question

1) List and explain 5 positive and 5 negative impacts of tourism.

2) Explain the relationship between hospitality services and tourism.

3) What has been the role of globalization in tourism development?

4) Discuss at least two challenges for tourism in lesser economically developed countries.

Answer 1

SOL 1 :   POSTIVE IMPACT OF TOURISM

• Employment opportunity for local people .
• Income for the local economy .
• Increased demand for loacal food and crafts .
• Helps preserve rural services like buses , village shop etc .
• Tourist mainly come to see the senery and wildlife , so there is pressure to conseve habitat and wildlife .

NEGATIVE IMPACT OF TOURISM

• Traffic congestion and pllution .
• Damage to the landscape .
• Local goods can become expensive because tourist will pay more .
• Jobs are mainly seasonal and low paid .
• Demand for holiday home makes housing too expensive for local people .

SOL 2 : Tourism and Hospitality go hand in hand , the hospitality offer services like accomodation , transport , food , leisure and recreation . Tourism is the activity by the tourist where they engage themselves in such services offered by hospitality industry .The hospitality industry is the service supplier to tourism .

SOL 3 : Globalization and Tourism are very dependent on each other . Thanks to globaliztion people from across the world can easily exchange ideas and values whether they are political,environmental,cultural or technological . This exchange has enabled the circulation of massive knowledge amongst the people of world . People now understand each other better regardless of language , religion or cutural differences and it has helped tourism industry to grow at a very high speed .

SOL 4 : Two challenges for tourism faced by lesser economically developed countries are :

• Tourists from across the world wants to travel the countries where infrastructure of the country is good , country people are more educated and lesser economically developed countries fail in these departments .
• Hospitality services of lesser economically developed countries are not so good as compared to developed countries which effect the tourist and tourism .