What Is Tourism and how has it changed?

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Holidays to far off places and exotic locations are becoming increasingly popular. Describe the reasons for the growth of such holidays and using an example from a less economically developed country, outline the, physical, cultural and economic impacts of the growth of tourism and suggest what could be done to limit the negative effects of increasing tourism and ensure that such growth is sustainable in such places.

What Is Tourism and how has it changed?

Tourism is when people go to visit a place they don’t go to every day, but they are only classed as tourists if they are there for more than one day other wise they are classed as day traveller. Tourism had changed over the last 50years due to many different factors mainly due to the fact that people earn a lot more than they did fifty years ago. So they spend a lot more money on their holidays and spend more money while on holiday. Also the transport has developed in a great way, these days you can get to a place a lot faster than you could fifty years ago, people know see a holiday as being abroad rather than going to a seaside resort in their own country, which was your perfect holiday in the 1950. The main reason behind people preferring to go a broad is because of cheap flights and that fact that places like America and Spain is because these types of places are well advertised and you see offers on them every single day on the television and on the internet.

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Pros & Cons of Tourism

Tourism brings many benefits and problems to Kenya. Some of the benefits it brings are that the tourist put a lot of money in to the country, also when the tourist change their pounds or dollars in Kenya, they can then use the money to improve the country for the tourist and the people who live their. The tourist also bring a lot of jobs with them, some of the jobs can be as tour guides or even just making and selling souvenirs. Also efficient enough to cope with the influx of tourists. ...

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