ATTRACTIONS include Lake Windermere,
landscape, walking, water sports, fishing
and cultural sites like Beatrix Potter's house
IMPACTS: - Traffic (Congestion/Parking) - Honey-pot
Sites (Overcrowded and eroded) - Housing (Prices too
high for locals to buy) - Environment (Lakes polluted)
SOLUTIONS: - Traffic (Bypasses/P&R/Waffles) - Honey-pot
Sites (Signs/Bins/Paths) - Housing (Trying affordable houses
for locals but difficult) - Environment (Speed Limits on lakes)
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE:
- Diversifying/ Share It
Scheme/ Volunteering
Holidays
Mass Tourism
- Jamaica
ATTRACTIONS include
beaches, weather, climate,
landscape and culture.
BENEFITS: - 20% over all GDP from tourism
- 20% locals employed directly in tourism
industry - Use of local resources begins
ripple effect helping to spread out money.
PROBLEMS: - Overcrowding of beaches - Natural
areas spoilt by littering etc - Trans national
corporations from MEDCs involved so profit leaves
the country. - All inclusive hotels mean ripple effect
doesn't happen. - Low paid jobs go to locals.
SOLUTIONS: - Community Tourism
(Homestay/ Local Tours/ Buying Local
Produce) - Eco-tourism helps the
environment as well as benefits locals.
ISSUES: - Grey/Black water pollution - Oil Spillages
- Disturbing wildlife - Destruction of natural sites.
SOLUTIONS: - Visitors and companies must have
permits to visit the area and to carry out any
activities. - Boats limited to 500 people (exclusive so
charge highly) - SSSI's to protect important areas.
Eco-tourism -
Galapagos Islands
50 volcanic islands off
South America,
belonging to Ecquador
Trips cost average of $6000 so
a lot is made from few tourists.
Don't require mass tourism
Locals MUST be employed
so money and jobs provided.
$25 a day from each tourist goes to
conservation trust which funds
conservation projects in national parks
Tourist are educated
on conservation and
become stewards
Locals employed in tourism
so don't need to farm and
spoil the islands