GEOG233 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Xenophobia, Sand Art And Play, Disneyfication
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Increased knowledge of host or destination culture reduction of social barriers. Provides a medium for positive social change. Improves self-esteem, community pride, & separate identity (louisiana) Preserves & nurtures local customs, skills & rituals (cultural involution) The other effects - social, cultural & ecological, the changed lifestyle, the loss of cultural identity must be accepted as long as the money flows in. Tourism is not a charitable institution for the host area: it is business, for which one is prepared, explicitly or implicitly, to make quite a few sacrifices. Equal attention is not yet being paid to social and cultural impacts of tourism. Rather it is assumed that communities will adapt or change, or at least, accept tourism as a necessary evil which should be tolerated because of its other benefits. (craik 1991) More emphasis on environment impacts and economic impacts because it is easier to measure. Demonstration effect (can be positive but leads to heightened economic expectations.