GEOG 3490 Chapter 8: tourism and sustainability chapter 8
2 Oct 2017
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Many discussions of tourism begin (and often end) with a consideration of economic impacts, focusing on the economic benefits that tourism development can bring. As we have already discussed in previous units, these economic benefits frequently leak out of (or never arrive in) the communities that receive tourists. Economic benefits are nonetheless still an important feature of tourism for many residents of the third world. But economic impacts are not the only type of impact that matter tourism affects the lives of people in host communities in myriad, complex ways socially and culturally, not just economically. cultural impacts of tourism. The first concept, acculturation, suggests that when two cultures interact the dominant culture will overpower the weaker culture. The weaker culture will change as individuals adopt the practices, consumption patterns, and tastes of the dominant culture. Within the context of tourism, this is referred to as the.
