Leisure And Tourism.

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Humanities GCSE Coursework

Leisure And Tourism

Introduction

“Britons are among the most unethical travellers in the world, ignoring global environmental damage and riding roughshod over local population and their needs.” This is the hypothesis my assignment will explore to find out if it is truthful or not. I will also relate to other statement such as “All inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, Africa, and Sri Lanka attract up to a million Britons every year-up from 400,000 in 1996-but many visitors never get beyond the fortified gates built to keep locals out. Such holidays encourage little additional spending.” The locals of countries that have tourists from Britons visiting are not happy with the way they respect the culture and traditions of the country “People generally do not make an effort to learn a countries record, and if they come across the information, they will generally not be deterred.” British tourists travel all around the world, but if the hypothesis reflects on the behaviour of the tourists is another question and so I will use this piece of work to find out the answer. I will do this by using a questionnaire and ask 10 people of random ages. Then I will use the results and put them into graphs. Then I will come to a conclusion on if the hypothesis is truthful or not. The main hypothesis and other statements are all from “The Observer,” which is a national newspaper. The date of the article was the 28th October 2001.  

Section 1

The damage that tourists can cause to the environment may not sound like a lot but when you find the facts it builds up. The damage tourists can cause is that trees are cut down to produce more facilities for the tourists i.e. hotels. These are built due to pressure of the demands of tourists as they demand more facilities and so when more tourists are attracted then more tourists are attracted to the attraction and so then more hotels and facilities are required for the more tourists.  Beachfronts are destroyed as hotels are built for tourists, as they also want the hotel to surround a nice landscape. Forests are cut down including endangered rainforests. These forests are cut down, habitats are destroyed and at the same time animals become endangered. Also more buildings are built which may cause mire pollution depending on the building. This leads to more greenhouse gases and pollutes the air causing acid rain and people with asthma are t risk from health problems. The worst thing about tourism is that it also destroys cultures.  The local people of The Gambia say that tourism is a “two way experience.”  They complain about tourists walking around half naked and not dressed properly dressed. They complain of tourists walking around like it’s there own place. This annoys the locals as they try to sell the tourists clothing etc but the tourists just do what they want and so damaging the culture and so the culture is changed. Most tourists for example in The Gambia stay in Rich hotels and so use their facilities and so they don’t have to go out and buy things. So nearly all the profit made goes to the government and so the people in the markets etc don’t benefit and so the locals don’t benefit from tourism.

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Section 3

Eco friendly tourism is basically tourism that is friendly to the environment for example you staying in a tent as a tourist is eco friendly tourism as you are not damaging the environment in anyway, so this is eco friendly. This compared to staying in a hotel which is not eco friendly as to build the hotel in the first place as trees, habitats would of been destroyed. Eco friendly tourism could help as there would be less damage to the environment as in rainforests being cut down, habitats being destroyed, animals being endangered and more pollution etc. ...

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