HTT 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Carrying Capacity, Mcdonaldization, Commodification

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Hospitality and Tourism Management
• Course: HTT 150
• Professor: Tom Griffin

Document Summary

Htt 150 lecture 14 tourism impacts, benefits and policies. Social - interpersonal relations, safety, language and health. Cultural - heritage, rituals and religious beliefs: positive, better understanding between cultures, revival and development of culture (ex. Improved standard of living caused by income from tourism: negative, community is treated as a playground", extra pressure on resources (ex. Water, land etc. : resentment, doxey"s iridex model. If impact is not managed, locals may start to hate tourists: euphoria small number of tourists and host welcomes tourism, apathy visitors increase and relationship is more formal. Irritation visitor numbers increase significantly and locals become concerned: antagonism open hostility from locals, loss of cultural pride. Inferiority because of wealth gap between tourists and locals: staged authenticity over re-enactment of historic events, demonstration effect locals start imitating the behaviour of tourists, mcdonaldization, commodification standardizing souvenirs (ex. The same bag can be printed with different names of places: trinketization making cultural artifacts commercial (ex.