Understanding the World of Tourism: Development, Impacts, and Concerns

This essay explores the development of contemporary tourism and its significant factors, positive and negative economic and environmental impacts, and socio-cultural impacts. It also discusses concerns and recommendations for shaping the future of world tourism.

Understanding the World of
Tourism

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Tourism is identified as the activity of touring and travelling, basically it is set of inter
related activities of tourist while making travel planning to the specific place. Also, it refers to
the point which covers the aspects from economic and monetary states of concern. The tourism
industry comprehend all activities which comes under the visitor economy (Kanwal and et.al.,
2020). In order with the same those activities are aligned with tourists like staying in hotel,
visiting tourist attraction and ordering meal.
This essay will evaluate the development of contemporary tourism and significant factors
aligned with them. Further, it would be discussing the positive and and negative economic
impact of tourism. It will be also analysing the environmental positive and negative impacts over
drawing attention to tourism sector. At the end of this essay it would be determining the positive
and negative socio culture impact of tourism by highlighting the major concerning to several
examples.
Development of contemporary tourism and its crucial factors
Contemporary tourism is one of the most significant highly misunderstood phenomenon
globally. It can be something which is intended by most of developed countries and is considered
as the instrument for economic growth for both emerging as well as developing economies.
Tourism is one of the largest industries which is also works as agent of cultural change and
epochal contributor to environmental changes (Ergashev and Farxodjonova, 2020). The
development of contemporary tourism states about the human actions are directly linked with
joining things in their lifestyles. The main purpose of developing contemporary tourism is based
on study to develop tourism industry in miserable countries. While utilizing the economic,
environmental and socio-cultural strategies for travellers helps to identify the impulsive nature of
tourism. Although, it is essential for determining tourism and tourist from technical perspective
as such it is important to re-examine tourism by means of temporary mobility.
Significant factors
There are some factors which affects the contemporary development of tourism, those
factors are described below for clear understanding of their impacts.
Political factors

Cost is the major aspect which affect the tourism development, it can be Hike in price,
exchange rate, inflation which directly impacts over tourism packages (Stankova, Tsvetkov and
Ivanova, 2019). The political instability is the most challenging part for this sector.
Economic factors
These factors are relevant with most high priority factors in the segment as such
generation of income, enhancing the employment and earnings in foreign exchange rate within
the develop countries.
Social factors
These factors are concerned with individual impact on tourism, quality of residents,
cultural affects the transformation in values or norms that are from tourism.
Technological factors
Technological trends are immensely growing in the industry which may attract various
tourist attention towards such specific offerings (Dogru and et.al., 2020). Such transportation and
modern trend facility make it more interactive.
Positive and negative economic impact of tourism
The economic impact refers to improved tax revenue or personal income, standards of living and
employment opportunities for peoples.
Positive
New facilities for tourist would be beneficial for locals and advantage for them to get the
benefit from such outcomes. Tourism generates the variety of business and forms broad range of
employment opportunities (Streimikiene and et.al., 2021). On the global scale tourism is the
largest and fastest growing industry and such trends is moving further following the various
technological terms.
While in travelling the demand for local food and crafts will automatically increase and
people will get the opportunity (Damnjanović, 2021). It boosts the revenue of economy and
develop thousands of job, create the better infrastructure of country, and plant sense of cultural
exchange among citizens and foreigners. While number of job builds in the specific areas is most
significant.
Negative
Foreign companies recruit non-resident employees in terms of paying low wages and
contribute to the economy (Bruneckiene and et.al., 2018). The outcomes it forms is in the

declining of traditional employment which appears when individual shift from mining, farming
to working in tourism sectors. The negative impact of tourism also cope up with decline in
traditional employment that falls out when employee move from such industries to another
which creates several difficulties for them to work in such industries.
One of the most negative impact to the tourism is over dependency, it may be concluded
as such the taste and fashion changes in cultural or due to range of external pressures (Goffi,
Cucculelli and Masiero, 2019). Numerous of tourist travelling to the specific destinations might
reduce all of a sudden which can lead to loss of employment or business closures.
Positive and negative environment impact of tourism
There are numerous ways by which tourism could have the positive and negative impact
in the terms of environmental concerns of destinations and in some circumstances it forces to
environmental change.
Positive
In UK, amount of former industrial sites as well as areas of abandoned land is been
preserved and build as tourist spot of attractions which expanse disused canals in renovation for
further utilizing for tourists purposes (Page and Connell, 2020). However, for increasing the
awareness of requirements for careful environmental management is very supportive for
reducing the negative impact of tourism in the several years.
Tourism can also help to make further renovations by raising funding to work towards historic
buildings like castles, cathedrals and churches by ensuring them about as the concerns of
preservative for future generations.
Negative
It is to be accepted that various forms of travels and tourism sectors are having the drastic
impact on environment (Dias, González-Rodríguez and Patuleia, 2021). The modes of transport
such as cars, trains and aircraft consumes fuel which produces the emissions and lead to resulting
in atmospheric pollution.
While in increasing amount of destinations likewise historical cities and national schemes
or parks are being established for reducing the amount of pollution and congestion drive from
motor vehicles. Thus, the ride schemes and numerous ideas influence visitor to use mode of
public transportation.

Congestion as well as overcrowding are concerned as the most disastable factors in
environment of tourism. In the case of congestion it is usually applied to the perils associated
with most of the cars are being used for travelling to particular destinations (Cabinova and et.al.,
2018). Overcrowding appears in the circumstances when the volume of visitors at the destination
enhances at which enjoyment is totally disrupted. It can be formed in the circumstance when
there is too much of crows at the tourists spots such as beaches, walking around at the historical
towns and trying to reach at viewpoint at natural attraction.
Positive and negative socio cultural impact of tourism
Positive
The one of the most significant factor can be concluded as the visitor visit to the specific
place and destinations have bee opportunities for visitors to learn and enhance their knowledge
and appreciate the culture, traditions (Page and Connell, 2020). Tourist benefit from the specific
and improved facilities which is provided for them. Such it includes attractions, facilities and
gain the great respect for the lifestyle of other people living in such areas.
In some cases, they help to preserve the traditional customs of others such as dance, music and
building the demand for locally produced drinks and foods. Also, they stimulate the production
as well as sale of arts and crafts to meet the necessary outcomes of visitors. At the same time
they make contribution to continuous process of traditional skills. It plays key role in reinforcing
the identity for the specific region.
Negative
The most common issue with this is the mater of seasonal employment or it can be more
realistically unemployment (Machnik and Lubowiecki-Vikuk, 2019). Most of the tourists are
developing their own strategies to maintain the flow of visitors throughout the year and reducing
the affect of seasonal unemployment. Such issues are most common in areas of mass tourism,
larger cities as in certain destinations with the less developed world. In some destinations there is
little or no conflict among the local and tourist.
People now recognize that tourism will bring loss in time period cultural identity and
specifically in region which is having the rapid increase in mass tourism (Hannam 2018). It is
easily accessible to provide international food and drink tourist are familiar with, rather than
encouraging eating food aligned with area. Whereas the cultural negative impact of tourism is

scaffolding of events, music and dance specifically for traveller in way which make the fun of
such culture of the places (Cudny, 2019).
CONCLUSION
From the above essay it had been analysed about development of contemporary tourism
and its significant factors such as Political, economic, Social and Technological. Moreover, it
had been briefly discussed about the positive and and negative economic impact of tourism. In
order to the same also analysed the environmental positive and negative impacts driving
attention towards tourism industry. Furthermore, it has been summarized the positive and
negative social and culture impact of tourism, describing through the points which shows how it
affects in the industry. By recommending the special areas for concerns tourism may use some
trends to shape the future of world tourism. Also, they should drive the attention from people in
ways to develop their interest in culture, food and sport by formatting the ways in which people
approach their choice for holidays.

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