Global tourism Flashcards
Factors affecting tourism development and management
1
Q
Explain what could affect tourism development and management?
A
- opportunities and constraints of nature and build environment
-Development and constraints of the national and built environment
-opportunities:Attract tourists and generate economic benefits
-constraints:Limit development and visit in order to conserve area - Sustainable
-reduce,reuse and recycle waste
-Use resources that help environment and economy - Risk and resilience
-Risk
(a)Natural disasters and extreme weather
(b)How can these affect tourists?
-Destroy infrastructure, hotel,attractions and transport facilities
(c)Repairing and replacing damaged infrastructure may be costly
Residence
-Recover soon from extreme weather event
-Government have resolves of money to help with rebuilding programme prevention measures - Carrying capacity and overtourism
-overtourism:it occurs when there are too many tourists in a destination causing negative social and environment issues within the destination
-carrying capacity:the maximum of visitors a destination/attraction can welcome without causing environment damage/spoiling the tourism experience
5.seasonality
-peak season
-off-peak seasons
6.Government objectives:Policies set by the government