Toursim

• Tourism is travel away from home for business, leisure or to visit family and friends
• Sustainable tourism is tourism carried out in a responsible and respectful manner
• A tourist is someone who travels to a place for a duration of 24 hours or a year
• Reasons for growth in tourism: Development, More income, Social media and internet, More holidays, Increase of older population, society changes and easier to travel
• Cultural environment is how people behave or what they believe in a society
• Social environment is how people behave and how people physically live
• Economic environment is how people spend money economically
• Natural environment is all living species, climate and weather
• Easier to travel: technology airlines, trains
• More holidays: increase of leave days so people can rest and go for a holiday
• Changes in society: people take holiday as a neccesity and not a luxury
• Increase of elder population: Older people spent time and money traveling from their pensions
• development: tourists give foreign currency that develops a country
• Social media and internet: people encourage others by posting where they travel. Internet helps easier booking of flights and hotels
• Increased income: disposable income people can use left over money to pay for holidays
• Advantages of tourism : foreign currency, creates employment, development, protects and preserves local cultures
• Disadvantages of tourism: jobs for locals are poorly paid damage to environment:, pollution, noise ,destruction habitats, local's lose tradition and culture