Tourist activities the way they are usually defined in the industry, basically entails transportation and also hosting of tourists within local communities that is tourist destinations, whereby, tourist products are utilized. None other industry has such a structure where the consumers go where the products are instead of the products being moved to the consumer in his/her own locality. This unique tourism industry structure brings around also a distinctive social effects upon the local community where the tourists visits, which includes but not limited to disruption of the local community culture, customs and lifestyle, spread of diseases which are infectious, modifications in the local demographics and also changes in the local housing as well as labour market.
The main product of the tourism industry is not a product that is created by the tourism industry; rather in many times it is the heritage, legacy and wealth of the local community which serves as a tourist attraction. The main business activity in the industry is promoting the appealing features of the local community, move visitors into the local community handle hospitality and direct the activities of the visiting tourists, and offer the tourists products and services to buy in the course of their stay in the community. If in any case these business activities are degrading the local community’s wealth and heritage the that community will suffer more directly compared to the consumer (tourist), who in case will return back to his/her own community with no accountability or awareness of negative impacts of his/her tourist activities undertaken. (Drake, 1991)
Tourist activities could possibly specifically, degrade social and the natural wealth of a given local community. The invasion of huge numbers of foreigners who are not informed into a local social system can easily undermine the pre-existing social values and relationships. To address these issues new concept and model have been formulated to being about sustainable tourism.
We are going to examine three of these new concepts which are;
1. Ecotourism
2. Coastal tourism
3. Community participation tourism
The main product of the tourism industry is not a product that is created by the tourism industry; rather in many times it is the heritage, legacy and wealth of the local community which serves as a tourist attraction. The main business activity in the industry is promoting the appealing features of the local community, move visitors into the local community handle hospitality and direct the activities of the visiting tourists, and offer the tourists products and services to buy in the course of their stay in the community. If in any case these business activities are degrading the local community’s wealth and heritage the that community will suffer more directly compared to the consumer (tourist), who in case will return back to his/her own community with no accountability or awareness of negative impacts of his/her tourist activities undertaken. (Drake, 1991)
Tourist activities could possibly specifically, degrade social and the natural wealth of a given local community. The invasion of huge numbers of foreigners who are not informed into a local social system can easily undermine the pre-existing social values and relationships. To address these issues new concept and model have been formulated to being about sustainable tourism.
We are going to examine three of these new concepts which are;
1. Ecotourism
2. Coastal tourism
3. Community participation tourism
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