20- using a range of examples examine how tourism has had both positive and negative impacts on local culture.

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20- using a range of examples examine how tourism has had both positive and negative impacts on local culture.

“For a tourism-based economy to sustain itself in local communities, the residents must be willing partners in process. Their attitudes toward tourism and perception of its impact on community life must be continually assessed.”

 (Allen et al.1988)

As tourism expands and reaches the remote corners of the earth its impact on local culture is inevitable. The arrival of foreign values, money and goods alters the cultural landscape, sometimes permanently. Often that impact is negative forcing locals away from their traditional lands, lifestyle and heritage. However the impacts could be positive as well.

The word culture in general, refers to human activity; different definitions of culture reflect different theories for understanding, or criteria for valuing, human activity. Anthropologists use the term to refer to the universal human capacity to classify experiences, and to encode and communicate them .

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A goal of developing the tourism industry in a community is maximizing selected positive impacts while minimizing potential negative impacts.

It is essential to identify the possible impacts. Tourism researchers have identified a large number of impacts.

Here is a table outlining the general impacts of tourism on local culture and communities;

In order to answer my coursework title, “examine how tourism has had both positive and negative impacts on local culture”, I will be looking at a variety of places where tourism has

had an impact on ...

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