Tourism is the world's largest industry and it is growing rapidly. It is also the world's largest employer. While tourism brings many benefits, including employment, economic development and foreign currency, it can often have a negative impact on local cultures and environments. This book focuses on the latest trends and the pros and cons of tourism.
The information comes from a wide variety of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper reports, features, magazine articles and surveys, literature from lobby groups and charitable organisations.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Tourism Issues
Global tourism: growing fast, International travel increases, UK travel trends, UK tourism at all-time high, Tourism is changing, Major boost for world tourism, Independent holidays, The new seekers, Passport to fun, Risky business, Australia – still top dream holiday spot for Brits, Travel agents and Internet bookings, Branson promises to send tourists into space by 2007.
Chapter Two: Responsible Tourism
The good tourist guide, Are we loving our heritage to death?, An ecotourism glossary, An even greener and more pleasant land, Ecotourism definitions, Sustainable tourism, Holidays from hell, Sun, sand, sea and sweatshops, Tourism and people, Rural community-based tourism, Prevention through awareness, Picking up the bill, Sustainable tourism and ecotourism, What are you really bringing back with you?
Key Facts
Additional Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
• Going on holiday was the most popular reason for UK residents to go abroad. In 2003, two-thirds of visits made by UK residents were to go on holiday, with a record 41.2 million holidays taken. About half (47 per cent) of these were package holidays. (page 4)
• The new backpackers – or ‘global nomads’ – are degree educated, have strong opinions about social justice and world peace, and see travel as a culturally valuable stage on life’s way. (page 10)
• Tourism has become the main money earner for a third of developing nations, and the primary source of foreign exchange earnings for most of the 49 least developed countries. (page 18)
• The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) gives the following definition of ecotourism which has been widely accepted: ‘responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well-being of local people’. (page 27)
• Leakage means income from tourism that leaves the destination country. The World Bank estimates that 55 per cent of international tourism income in the South leaves the country via foreign-owned airlines, hotels and tour operators, or payments for imported food, drink and supplies. (page 32)
• Often as little as 10p in every pound you are spending on your holiday goes into the country visited. In fact cruise ships spend as little as 3p per person in every port they visit in the Caribbean. (page 37)
Responsible Tourism Study Guide
Each book in the Issues series has a study guide. These four-page guides provide a variety of discussion points and other activities to suit a wide range of ability levels and interests.
Publisher: Independence Educational Publishers
Price: £1.50
ISBN: 978 1 86168 335 9
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