UNWTO Flashcards
The visitors expend the money they have brought from their origin providing income for the area they visited.
Tourism expenditure
The 3 tourism impacts
Economic, sociocultural, and environmental
Have to do with the economic benefits and costs in engaging in tourism.
Economic impact
Gains and losses in the society and culture of the host community and the tourist who come from the experiences.
Sociocultural impact
One of the reasons for the travek in tourism is the allure of environmental of the destination.
Environmental impacts
Includes earning of local communities from employment, sale of souvenir items, local food produce, and beverages services in restaurants, room rentals, tour guiding, entrance fees at sites and the likes.
Economic impact
SOCIO CULTURAL POSITIVE IMPACTS
•Cultural exchange
•preservation of cultural heritage
•economic development •cross-cultural understanding.
SOCIOCULTURAL NEGATIVE IMPACTS
•Destruction of natural and cultural resources
•overcrowding
•displacement of local communities
•social and cultural change
•exploitation of labor