Comparative Analysis: Tourism in Kenya and South Australia Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the tourism industries in Kenya and South Australia, evaluating the economic, social, and environmental impacts of tourism in both regions. It explores the positive aspects, such as job creation, cultural preservation, and increased GDP, as well as the negative consequences, including environmental pollution, social issues, and economic disparities. The report further discusses strategies to mitigate the negative effects while maximizing the positive impacts of tourism. These strategies include product diversification, stricter regulations, and a focus on eco-tourism to ensure sustainable development and preserve natural resources. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the importance of responsible tourism practices for long-term sustainability in both countries, referencing various academic sources to support its findings.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Positive impact of various factors on Kenya..............................................................................3
Negative impact of various factors on Kenya.............................................................................3
Strategies that can be used to minimize the negative impacts while maximizing the positive
impacts.........................................................................................................................................4
Positive impacts of various factors on south Australia................................................................4
Negative impacts of various factors on south Australia..............................................................4
Strategies that can be used to minimize the negative impacts while maximizing the positive
impacts.........................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Travel and tourism industry is the booming and fast growing industry. In this report, it
will be discuss on the Kenya and south Australia tourism industry. The positive and negative
environmental, social and economical impacts of the tourism on both countries. The kinds of
strategies are required to reduce the negative impacts while increasing the positive.
Positive impact of various factors on Kenya
Economic factors:
 Tourism creates employment opportunities for the local people of Kenya. Tourism promotes healthy relationship with other countries which also increase the trade
across the countries (Barrows, 2011).
Social factors:
 With the help of tourism the tradition and cultures of local people can be preserved. Tourism helps in understand the culture of various countries which improves the life
Style of the people in Kenya.
Environmental factors
 Kenya is the land of biodiversity. It has various natural attractions like, Maasai Mara
reserve, wild life safari, beaches etc.
 Kenya offers eco-tourism which do not have negative effects on the environment.
Negative impact of various factors on Kenya
Economic factor:
 Due to unskilled jobs, seasonal job and they are poorly paid (Bansal and Eiselt, 2004). Livelihoods are lose by the local people because of tourist facilities.
Social factors:
 The local people treated badly by the tourist because of their color. Lack knowledge of English local traditions are disappears (Chon & Yu, 1999).
Environmental factors:
 Due to high transportation the pollution is increasing day by day.
 Footpath increased by the frequent travelers.
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Strategies that can be used to minimize the negative impacts while maximizing the positive
impacts
 Negative impact can be minimize by supporting certain things. for this product range
diversification is necessary. For this Kenya government can open new adventures spot
this will increase the tourist activities throughout the country.
 There is need to reduce the no. of tourist in some areas apart from this government can
charge double entry fee for vesting them, this method increase the income of that place
and will reduce the tourists as well (Cook, Hsu & Marqua, 2013).
Positive impacts of various factors on south Australia
Economic:
 In south Australia 522,500 jobs are directly generated in the year of 2013 because of
tourism industry.
 Because of Travel and tourism industry the GDP of the country is increasing day by day
and this has positive impacts on the new employment opportunities. Directed contribution 1.8% generated by the visitors exports.
Social:
 Because of travel and tourism there is improvement in the structure which is beneficial
for the local community of south Australian people. Interchange between guest and host create a outstanding culture in south Australia this
increasing the awareness on global scale (Kotler, Bowen & Makens, 2010).
Environmental:
 Because of natural beauty the south Australia is the first preference of travelers.
 Because of Secure and safe destination tourist wants to visit more often.
 Kangaroos, whale, island watching
 South Australia is known for world class natural assets.
Negative impacts of various factors on south Australia
Economic:
 The jobs which is crated for the local people because of tourism that are seasonal and
limited and they are paid very poorly.
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 Some of the tourism destination affected by the natural disasters, terrorism and recession
(Richards, 2013).
Social:
 Some problems occurred in south Australia because of visitor bad behavior such drug and
alcohol problems, crime level and prostitution increased.
 Tourist interaction also lead to an erosion of values and traditional culture of south
Australia some human right also infringe because of tourism.
Environmental:
 Natural resources such as water supply, beaches, island, heritage sites etc are affected by
the tourism (Investigating the travel and tourism industry, 2014).
 Traffic pollution in south Australia also increasing day by day because of high traffic and
noise pollution.
Strategies that can be used to minimize the negative impacts while maximizing the positive
impacts
 Australian government can focus on the eco-tourism this will preserve the environment
and wildlife.
 Australia government need to make some strict law which can prevent the natural beauty
and natural resources.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, we came to know about the positive and negative impact of
tourism on Kenya and south Australia country. In this report, strategies also discussed which can
reduce the negative impacts of tourism.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Barrows, C. W. (2011). Introduction to Hospitality Industry. New York: Wiley & Sons.
Bansal, H and Eiselt, H. A. (2004). Exploratory research of tourist motivations and planning,
Tourism Management, Vol. 25, Issue 3, pp387-396.
Chon, K. & Yu, L (1999).The International Hospitality Business: Management and Operations.
London: Routledge.
Cook, R., Hsu, C. & Marqua, J. (2013). Tourism: The Business of Hospitality and Travel.
London: Prentice Hall.
Kotler, P., Bowen, J.T. & Makens, J.C. (2010). Marketing for hospitality and tourism. London:
Pearson.
Richards, G. (2013). Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives.
Online
Investigating the travel and tourism industry. (2014). [Online]. Available
from<http://travelandtourismindustry.weebly.com/development-of-the-tourism-industry-since-
the-1960s.html>.
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