Understanding the World of Tourism: Positive and Negative Impacts on Economy, Environment, and Socio-Cultural Aspects

This essay explores the contemporary tourism industry and its impact on the economy, environment, and socio-cultural aspects. It discusses the positive and negative effects of tourism on different regions, including affordable prices, consumer relations, transportation, cleanliness, cultural heritage, and more. The essay also highlights the negative impacts of tourism, such as the leakage effect, damage to natural resources, and disturbance in natural ecology. The subject is relevant to courses in tourism, hospitality, and environmental studies.

Understanding the World of
Tourism

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Tourism refers to an activity that specially focuses on pleasure. In this, the tourism industry
provides accommodation, information, transportation and various other services to people that
help and enable them to get better relaxation. This has commercial purposes that help tourism
easy and comfortable tour. In context to this, the tourism industry refers to a broad term which
has various businesses included for providing their goods and services and facilitating business
with a different activity from home environment. There are various type of business in this
industry which includes event organizing, food and beverages, lodging, accommodation and
others. The industry needs to deliver satisfactory services with better effect. Some various
restaurants and hotels work efficiently to deliver the quality of services that can attract a large
number of customers for a longer time. People like to travel to a destination for different
purposes like business purpose, educational purpose, entertainment purpose and others. This
essay includes the travel and tourism industry within the UK which includes the development of
contemporary tourism along with the positive and negative aspects of environmental impact,
economic impact and socio-cultural impact (Kong and et. al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
Contemporary tourism refers to tourism at the International or National level. In this,
resources have been identified that there are various trends, issues and factors that can impact the
growth of this industry development of tourism. The industry has the potential to influence the
growth of this industry by providing various services and goods to deal with challenges
effectively. There are various kinds of business within this tourism industry that are essential to
promote their services to influence customers for earning profit (Torres and et. al., 2019).
Honesty and loyalty are important factors for the growth of the tourism industry towards their
customers. It is necessary to provide quality services to customers that can have a positive
outcome for tourism purposes. Promotional activity helps the tourism industry to grow high that
influence and attract a large number of customer base to come and consume their sources for
satisfactory level. There is a various factor in this tourism industry that can help to grow within
the UK that are going to be discussed further (Bristow and et. al., 2020).
Transportation- It is essential for every restaurant and hotel where consumers transport
from one place to another and change the location easily. This process is known as the

transportation system. Without this transportation system, consumers are not able to arrive at the
destination place and consume services or goods which they prefer for. So, it can be said that for
any restaurant and hotel, there is a need to ensure about the location and the transportation
system can influence the consumer to get easy access for consumer their services and goods
(Kwok and et. al., 2017).
Reasonable price for customers- This is also a factor that is effective in the industry and
allows a large customer base to consume goods and services at a reasonable price. This can be
effective and allow the consumer to pay for this without hesitation. For example- a low luxury
hotel targets their standard customer who can spend enough that they should not feel that they
are paying more for consuming their services. This can be effective and allow them to consume
services at the right price. It is essential to set the price according to the target customer that their
target customer can see the price of goods and services affordable for them and can easily
consume for their satisfaction (Chen and et. al., 2017).
Customer relations- Tourism Industries should ensure that they should make a better
relationship with their customer which can allow them to attract them for consuming their
services again and again. This can be helpful for a business industry that they can deliver their
services and goods to their customer for making a better profit. Through behaving better and
making good relationships can attract the old customer and this may also enable them to
influence another new customer for consuming services due to the establishment of better
relationship (Altinay, 2019).
It can be observed that the tourism industry has both positive and negative impacts on
the economy the primary positive impact can be observed that due to the multiplier effect.
People like to travel more and this creates an opportunity for a job in the tertiary sector. It is
highly helpful for the development of the primary and secondary sectors. This multiplier effect
enables the customer to spend on tourism which is differently distributed to the economy of the
country directly or indirectly. When money is generated through the industry, it creates income
for people in continuous series of conversion of money from tourism (Pawlusiński, 2018). For
example- when money is generated by tourism, it can help in the business development along
with the development of the country. Another positive impact of tourism can be observed as an
Employment generation within the region. The travel and tourism industry also includes food
and dining services, accommodation services along transportation which needed several

individuals to run smoothly (Ivanov, 2019). Through this, there is Employment generation and
different sectors can be highly beneficial for economic development. There is also the negative
impact of tourism on the economy which can be observed as a leakage effect. In this leakage
effect, there is a benefit to the multinational business rather than local business (Prentice, 2020).
It can be understood that when revenue is generated through the tourism industry, there are
multinational businesses that get more benefits rather than local businesses. This revenue
invested in foreign firms and companies may have a vital impact on developing countries. It can
be observed that revenue gets neutralized due to the leakage effect in the developing country.
Thailand is one of the examples where due to leakage affect countries not getting benefit to the
local economy. The negative impact of tourism on the Economy can be also through increasing
services prices. This is the negative impact of tourism because many local people live near that
tourism place and due to increase in the number of prices of the product creates difficulty for
easy living of local people. This creates expensiveness for them and leads to an impact on their
quality of living (Dann and et. al., 2019).
There is also some positive and negative environmental impact of tourism. The
positive environmental impact may include the cleanliness of the local region. This is effective
and due to attracting a large number of consumers for earning revenue, this influence
government to invest in cleanliness which can be effective to attract a large number of tourist at
that location. This also helps to earn a large economy from the tourist by installing clean
environment-friendly spots (Huang and et. al., 2018). Tourist likes to visit a place that is clean
and have an environmentally friendly location that enables them to get attracted towards the
location and indirectly create large revenue by maintaining hygiene and safety. This also
influences private and public sector stakeholders to take care of the process of cleanliness in that
region which is highly effective for attracting tourists. Local awareness regarding sustainability
which is a positive impact on tourism can allow the tourism industry to attract a large customer
base for providing environmentally friendly destinations and enable them to invest in those
places and increase the revenue of that country (Buhalis and et. al., 2019). There is a negative
environmental impact of tourism which includes damaging natural resources. Due to
commercialization tourism attracts a large number of customers and also Industrialist to invest in
the places. By using natural resources as their primary benefit for earning more profit, there is an
unnecessary use of natural resources which creates dysfunctional waste management and creates

trash within the city and pollutes the environment. There is also the negative impact of tourism
which is referred to as disturbance in natural ecology. An increasing number of tourists creates
an increased number of pollution due to transportation and other tourism activity. This creates an
abundance of natural resources and disturbed the natural Ecology balance within that region that
is flora and fauna. Komodo Island is an example of disturbed natural ecology due to
unsustainable tourism (Ziyadin and et. al., 2019).
There is a positive aspect of the socio-cultural impact of the tourism industry. Education
is one of the main reasons that help and promote educate tourists about the culture and heritage
of the specific region. Selling the educational culture enables sympathy and helps to reduce
prejudice. There is also a positive aspect that helps in the prevention of cultural resources
through International tourism. It also enables the local community to share their cultural
resources with others and make awareness about their cultural heritage through textile,
traditional dance, art and others. Africa is a country that preserves its tradition and cultural value
with the help of tourism. This provides an opportunity for local talents like actors and musicians
to perform their cultural tradition in front of international tourists which promotes the cultural
heritage of that region (Moscardo and et. al., 2017). There is a negative social-cultural impact
is that there is the burden of infrastructure at that region which can damage cultural area. While
in process of managing a large number of tourists, there is a need to construct infrastructure that
can allow them to stay at that place. In this process, there is damage to the cultural places and
due to misbehavior of tourists, degrade the local monument and privacy of residents. Rome is an
example of a negatively affected country where residents are impacted due to tourism. There is
another negative social-cultural impact is that tourists get fail to respect local costumes that
have also cultural classes in that region. It can be observed that tourism is behaving and taking a
picture with that place where photography is not allowed and like this tourist fails to respect local
customs (Xiao, 2020).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that there is a contemporary tourism
industry that includes various types of businesses. there is some factor that is associated with the
contemporary tourism industry and may include affordable price, consumer relations and
transportation. There is a discussion about the positive and negative aspects of the economy due
to the impact of tourism at various places. There is also discussion about the positive and

negative aspects of environmental effects due to tourism. This essay also includes the positive
and negative aspects of socio-cultural affected due to tourism.

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