Impacts of tourism Positive and Negative effects in Castleton

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Impacts of tourism

Positive and Negative effects

I have discovered that many locals heavily rely upon tourists to earn their livings and to afford to live in such an expensive area as Castleton, where a small cottage will cost about £100,000. Locals running services for tourists do inflate their prices therefore creating much profit, particularly in the summer months. This is not a problem for locals as their lives and livelihoods have certainly been protected by the attraction of the quaint village in the countryside which is appealing to many city dwellers, i will go into detail on these issues later in this section of my project.

There is also a downside to this for the locals.

The locals don't have many services for themselves in the village, there are virtually no shops for locals. Also tourists cause many other problems such as traffic – the roads are often congested, litter and noise. There are also some conflicts over land use.

The locals do have some benefits from the tourist industry, such as good public transport links, but they wish for something to be done about the many problems in the village.

I am using the my primary data and some of my secondary data to do this part of the fieldwork. At the differant sites differant thing were observed about the litter, the noise, the buildings, the crime, the erosion, the traffic, the pollution, the vegetation, the wildlife and the amount of pedestrians in these areas.

Point 1

Point 1 is situated near a bride leading into Castleton. It has an average amount of litter, a high noise level because of the river that runs by it and the fact that it is on a main road. It has no buildings in the area, there was also no visible crime in that area. There is no road and pavement erosion and neither were in need of re-surfacing. There was little traffic on the road, we think this is beacuse most of the traffic had     already arrived in Castleton for the day. There is little vegetation because it was mainly a road and path. There was not much visible wildlife in this area but some birds were seen by the river. there were no pedestrians in the area.

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Point 2

Point 2 was situated near a traffic island in the centre of Castleton opposite the main car park entrance. It had a more than average amount of litter in the area and the noise level as quite loud because of it being situated near the main carpark. Their were many buildings in the area which mainly consisted of shops, pubs and cafes. There was no visible crime in the area and there was little erosion because it was the main road through Castleton. There was quite a large amount of traffic moving through the area because of ...

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