Impacts of Tourism on Society: Sociological Theories and Practices

Sociology and
Tourism

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCE..................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
There are many social benefits of tourism which helps to demonstrating the positive
social impacts which include give strengthening, helps to preserving the local culture and
heritage and many more (Afza, 2019). The main aim of this essay is describe the relationship
between tourism and society and its impact on each other. Tourism refers to the practises for
travelling or going somewhere for fun, this business providing and arranging the holidays and
services for the people who are able to visiting the different place (Andrade, 2022). It can be
stated as a cultural, economic and social phenomenon which involves the movements of an
individual person from their native place for different destination, when someone goes for the
vacations it also considers in tourism. It helps the society to create more job opportunities
increase revenue and wealth, it is stated the tourisms which impact the society and economy,
environment which helps to enhancing the quality of life among the people by creating the jobs
which support to generate the income and enhancing the living standard of the people. Now
tourism industry is increasing day by day and it is majorly male dominating industry and women
are not having an equal right and freedom (Xiang, Fesenmaier and Werthner, 2021). This gender
equality in tourism industry create the negative impact on the society. The general sociological
are related to the social problems, causes, changes, human behaviours and many more. The
sociological of tourisms is a process which helps the explain the generating tourism motivations,
roles, building strong relationship etc. Tourism industry support the governments and local
communities to provide many opportunities to develop their economy and revenue. But During
the time of COVID-19 travel and tourism industry start taking several precautions for combat
with a Pandemic.
MAIN BODY
The global tourism is based on the movements of people from their usual environment
which helps to interactions between the people (Canosa, van Doore and Graham, 2022) .Along
with tourism involves the cross-cultural interactions among the people of different nations which
helps to building the good relationship and understanding the peaceful relations. Tourism and
society both are interrelated to each other, travel industry provide the travelling experiences or
services to the people which consist the accommodation, transport, food and many other
services. Tourism are classified into three parts such as domestic, inbound and outbound,
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