IMPACT OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY

• THE POSITIVE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF TH - Income, Tourism Income, Employment, Balance of Payment, Investment and Development.
• INCOME - the tourism and hospitality industry obviously generates income within a destination country. Nations wanting to increase their income have used tourism and hospitality as a means for reasonably quick development.
• TOURISM INCOME - In general comes from wages and salaries, interest, rent and profits.
• EMPLOYMENT - from local to national, benefits as well from tourism and hospitality. In general, the tourist industry offers more employment opportunities than other economic sectors. Generating employment is perhaps the greatest advantage of tourism and hospitality on a developing economy.
• BALANCE OF EMPLOYMENT - Tourism and hospitality has a major influence on the countries balance of payments it is an accounting of flow of goods, services, and funds in and out of the country during a given period.
• INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT - Once an area has become economically successful, businessmen and government agencies may be influenced to invest in tourism and hospitality and other industries in that area. This is known by economist as an "accelerator concept"
• NEGATIVE ECONONOMIC ASPECTS OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY - Inflation and Land values, High leakages, Overdependence on tourism and hospitality, Seasonality.
• INFLATION AND LAND VALUES - Retailers realizing that their profits can be greatly increased by catering to tourist increase their prices on certain products.
• INFLATION AND LAND VALUES - Inflation within destination areas is also caused by increasing land values.
• HIGH LEAKAGES - It occurs from the cost of goods and services that must be imported to satisfy the needs of tourist. leakage occurs from a variety of sources.
• OVERDEPENDENCE ON TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY - Some destinations have made themselves vulnerable to changes in tourist demand by becoming overdependent on tourism and hospitality for their livelihood.
• SEASONALITY - Some destinations have made themselves vulnerable to changes in tourist demand by becoming overdependent on tourism and hospitality for their livelihood.
• SEASONALITY - Many hotels experience greatly reduce revenues during the off season.
• Social impacts of tourism and hospitality - Explorer, Elite, Offbeat, Unusual tourist, Incipient mass tourist, Mass tourist, Charter tourist.
• EXPLORER - this type of visitor is interested in being and active participant observer among the population. The explorer easily adapts to local lifestyles and does not need special tourist accommodations.
• ELITE - this type of tourist is few in number. He can afford to pay well for unusual vacations. He is well traveled and usually known as "The jet setter" his arrangements are either made by a travel agent or maybe pre-planned.
• OFFBEAT - this tourist adapts well to simple accommodations and services provided for the occasional guest.
• UNUSUAL TOURIST - these tourist loves some exotic cultural sites, and unusual or primitive sites as long as he can quickly and safely return to more familiar surroundings and group.
• INCIPIENT MASS TOURIST - this is a visitor who looks for the amenities of western societies in hotels and other travel related facilities he is a mixture of both pleasure seeker and business traveler.
• MASS TOURIST - he comes from the middle class. He arrives in the destination with other tourist there is a diversity of taste among them and their attitude is "you get what you pay for".
• CHARTER TOURIST - comes "en masse" with others of his kind creating an extremely high amount of business and receiving a high degree of standardization in services and products. The interaction between the visitors and the host is limited and impersonal.
• POSITIVE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY - It creates a new medium for social change and multicultural understanding.
• POSITIVE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY - it encourages adoption to the realities of modern life and works toward improving the host countries environment and lifestyle options.
• POSITIVE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY - it promotes knowledge and use of foreign languages and it improves health conditions and disease control.
• ;NEGATIVE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY - It creates changes in the traditional forms of employment and it creates community problems such as "prostitution" is being involved.
• NEGATIVE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY - It creates a continual exposure to other multiple individuals that affects local lifestyles and Tourist often display negative behaviors that can be considered socially and economically inappropriate.
• "ACCULTURATION" - is defined as those changes that occur in a culture through borrowing from other cultures.
• POSITIVE EFFECTS OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY CULTURE - Intercultural communication and Renaissance of native culture.
• INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION - Mobility, which is a prerequisite of tourism and hospitality is necessary for different social groups nationalities and cultures to meet and interact. Cross cultural communications between tourist and their host may promote changes in local culture while preserving or revitalizing local ethnic and cultural identity.
• RENAISSANCE OF NATIVE CULTURE - Tourism and hospitality may be important to the host country to remind its people of its history and culture folk culture festivals are organized to attract visitors. Traditional art forms have been revived in several countries. The establishment of the model culture villages (living museums) has contributed largely to the renaissance of native traditions and crafts.
• ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY - The history of tourism and hospitality closely shows that the environment has contributed to the birth and progress of tourism and hospitality. It is expected that some change in pre-existing forms will be necessary to accommodate mass tourism.
• POSITIVE ENVIROMENTAL IMPACT OF TH - CONSERVATION and DEVELOPMENT OF ATTRACTIONS.
• CONSERVATION - and preservation of the environment not only benefit the local area but they also determine the future of tourism and hospitality.
• DEVELOPMENT OF ATTRACTIONS - Several countries around

  the world are identifying areas which have the potential to attract

  tourist.
• Negative environmental impact of tourism and hospitality - ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS, GEOLOGICAL CONFLICTS, RESIDENT CONFLICTS.
• ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS - Some of the problems affecting the quality of the environment are destruction of the vegetation, pollution, and the destruction of wildlife.
• ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICTS - The destruction of the vegetation occurs because of the large number of tourists who trample on the vegetation. Problems associated with wildlife results from killing of animals such as birds and the disruption of the normal habits a feeding and breeding.
• GEOLOGICAL CONFLICTS - Tourism and hospitality affects geological formations. Some tourist collect minerals rocks, fossils, and corals from tourist attractions and others destroys natural formations by vandalizing.
• RESIDENT CONFLICTS - A number of conflicts frequently occur between residents and tourist or tourism developers. The increasing value of land often forces residents to move away from the area of their home.
• RESIDENT CONFLICTS - Conflict between tourist and the local residence may also arise because of damage to the area brought about by littering, vandalism, and travel congestion.