EXPL 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Taleb Rifai, Economic Inequality, Michel Martelly
9 Nov 2014
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Socio cultural impacts: changes in value systems and behavior, threatens indigenous identity, changes in community structure, family relationships, traditional lifestyles, ceremonies and morality, children selling things/working or going to school, shows, songs, etc, western hotels in communities families from there have to work. Negative impacts leakage: the amount that is not received locally after taxes, airline fees, imports bought, how much money leaves the host country, about 80% of profit of all inclusive" packages go to international companies, it goes to some other place in north america, the amount of money spent by tourists that leave that country, thailand 70% left country, caribbean 80%, india 40, us only us remains in developing country"s economy. Economic dependency: % of workforce directly or indirectly reliant on tourism (dependent on tourism, gambia 30, seychelles 21, jamaica 34, maldives 83, tourism has costs and benefits.
