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Tourism in western India (Goa)
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- 1How big is tourism to Goa?-Over 1million people visit each year
-This has been encouraged as a tourist destination since the 1980s - 2ADVANTAGES:-Extra wealth spread through community(multiplier effect)
-Demand for local produce -farming, fishing, crafts
-New jobs are created in the tourist industry
-Improved communtications - 3DISADVANTAGES:-Farmers lost land to resort devolopments
-Some villages dependent on tourism(unpredictable)
-Each tourist uses 30x more water than a local (this causes water shortages)
-Beaches contaminated by untreated sewage
-Trees cut down, turtles under threat -habitat endangered
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- Higher geography (Western India) FlashCards sobre Tourism in western India (Goa), criado por dargo97 em 27-05-2014.
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