TOURISM

TOURISM

1. GROWTH FACTORS OF TOURISM:

   • -Increased standard of living in developed countries
     • -The improvement of transport, increasingly faster and cheaper.
       • -The increase and improvement of tourist infrastructures: hotels, apartments, restaurants, shops ...
         • -The increase in the cultural level that has implied a greater curiosity to know monuments, places and other cultures.
           • -The development of the tourism industry capable of attracting millions of people through systematic advertising.

2. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT OF TOURISM:

   • In the receiving areas, it means high economic income that affects other economic areas, mainly construction, commerce or transport. Is an important factor of economic development and various Spanish regions are a good example of it.
     • On the other hand, it has attracted the population to the receiving areas or, in other cases, it has slowed the march of the indigenous population towards the cities.
       • In coastal areas, tourism causes excessive population congestion in high season, with multiple negative consequences for the quality of life in the area.
         • Thirdly, it promotes the modernization of customs, but in the least countries developed makes the social divide among high-income tourists more evident economic, and the indigenous population, often marginalized from the use of facilities tourist.
           • Finally, tourism has allowed the rehabilitation of environmental areas that they were deteriorating.
             • For all these reasons, the great challenge is to articulate a type of sustainable tourism that makes economic development with respect for environmental values.

3. TYPES OF TOURISM:

   • -Tourism "sun and beach": The climate and the the attractiveness of the beach have mobilized massive tourism in which Spain is a great world power.
     • -Mountain tourism: Focused on the winter months by skiing, although it also attracts a summer (summer) tourism in search of natural landscapes.
       • -Rural tourism: Sometimes linked to mountain tourism. It is based on the search by city dwellers for quiet places with a slower pace of life in the midst of nature.
         • -Artistic-cultural tourism: Based on the search for the historical-artistic heritage and other cultural manifestations such as gastronomy or festivals.
           • -Business tourism: Here tourists move for professional or study reasons. Large cities like Madrid and Barcelona attract tourists of this type.

4. Tourism is called displacement for the purpose of leisure that means spending more than a full day away from home. Since the Second World War, tourism has been experiencing sustained intensified growth in recent decades.

5. MAIN TOURIST SPACES:

   • The tourist emitting countries are the most developed countries. They move more and more and more times due to the high economic level of many inhabitants of these parts of the world.
     • Traditionally, recipient countries have also been developed countries:
       • -EUROPE: For its historical-cultural heritage, its beaches, its mountains ... highlighting the countries of The Mediterranean. By the number of tourists received, France is the world's leading power, and Spain the second.
       • -USA: It is the second tourist power in the world since it has alternated with Spain in recent years. In recent times, the increase in the standard of living, the lower cost of transport and the higher cultural level have meant that less developed countries but with great tourist attraction have become important in receiving centres.