Tourism Assessment Example - Level 5+

Slide 1: My Tourism geography assessment Tourism is travel for mainly family or enjoyment purposes (FEHS 2006-07)

Slide 2: Section One What is Tourism?????

Slide 3: Jobs in the Tourist Industry • Air Hostess • Souvenir seller • Pilot • Warden • Hotel Manager • Chef • Tour Guides • Lifeguard • Park Ranger • Driver • Restaurant Manager • Waiter/Waitress • Innkeeper

Slide 4: • Tourism is when People visit other countries generally for entertainment or work reasons. • As this graph shows, leisure is the most popular reason. Purposes of Tourism 2003 • Eco-tourism is 80 Leisure 70 When tourists go to 60 Visiting friends and relatives Amount (Millions) A place to see the 50 40 Wildlife or habitats. 30 Business 20 10 Other 0 Reason

Slide 5: Fussy Tourists?! • A Place to stay Tourists like……… • People to talk to • Warm climates • Somewhere to eat • Activities to do • Wildlife • A New culture • Somewhere to relax • Or a Similar culture • A sense of adventure • Comfort • Fun!!! • To be understood • Family safe areas • Places of interest • Safety • Information… The list goes on!!!!!!!!

Slide 6: Tourists like to go in August because it is warmer. Month of All Tourism Trips 2003 14% Jan 12% 12% Feb 10% Mar 10% 9%9% Apr 8% 8%8% 8% May Percentage 8% 7%7% 7% Jun 6% Jul 6% Aug 4% Sept Oct 2% Nov Dec 0%

Slide 7: Exact Visitors in Where do people like? millions This graph shows the top ten most visited countries in the world for 2001, with the amount of visitors in millions. This graph shows that in 2001 France had the most visitors with 76.5 million. Top ten Countries Visitors in millions

Slide 8: The graph shows that…… The most popular destination was France with The most popular 76.5 million visitors. countries are the ones with Famous attractions, activities or a warm Some of The climate. main countries with lots of visitors are the There is a range of main powers. The 58.3 million visitors countries with lots between France , the There are very few of money. popular LEDC most popular on the countries in the graph and Austria, the Top ten. least popular on the graph.

Slide 9: Section Two How can Tourism effect a country?

Slide 10: Good Points of Tourism for the country • Brings in money to the country… • Raises awareness about a countries difficulties… • And It brings knowledge of the outside world to the country…

Slide 11: Good points of Tourism for the Locals • It brings in Job opportunities… • The facilities that are built for Tourists, locals can use too… • It gains money that can be spent on education and other facilities…

Slide 12: Good points of Tourism for the Tourists. • They get cheap food and beer in some places… • The country may be warmer than their own… • They can take advantage of the locals hospitality, they think… • Things may be cheaper there so they may be able to get more for their money…

Slide 13: Some of the bad points  • Tourists often are • Tourists may camp in ignorant of the natives odd places spoiling religions and are the looks of the unintentionally rude… countryside… • Tourists may bring • The facilities for the violence and child tourists are often prostitution to a ugly… peaceful country… • The facilities needed • They often drop litter for tourists travel are causing harm to increasingly bad for wildlife… the environment… environment

Slide 14: Section Three Comparing countries

Slide 15: England an MEDC St Ives in Cornwall

Slide 16: Some info • St Ives is more open to seasonal jobs which means they will be there at one point in the year… • There are several beaches at St Ives… • All the Beaches at St Ives are surrounded by built up areas… • And there is a railway line running from Port Minster point.

Slide 17: Good points of Tourism in St Ives • The locals gain money to enhance the surrounding area… • They can upgrade the surrounding area with the money they gain… • The locals can take advantage of the facilities and equipment brought in for the Tourists for example, bed and breakfast’s and Ice cream vans…

Slide 18: Bad Points of Tourism for St Ives • Tourists trample plants and vegetation destroying animal habitats… • They drop litter which can cause harm to animals and Humans alike… • They carry away sand on their feet slowly eroding the beaches… • And it is an unreliable source of money as it is seasonal…

Slide 19: Spain Benidorm in Costa Blanca

Slide 20: Some info • In August it can get up to 25 degrees Celsius with 9.3 mm of rain… • It is a highly built up area with lots of high rise skyscrapers… • They get on average about 4 million Tourists a year. 1 million of them are British…

Slide 21: Good points of Tourism in Benidorm • They have boosted economically because of the Tourists… • Tourism is worth 10 percent of Spain’s GDP … • The health and looks of the Beaches in Benidorm have Increased as the Government can afford to spend more time and money on them…

Slide 22: Bad points of Tourism in Benidorm • The beaches are being worn away by Tourists feet… • The government in Benidorm are spending £700,000 on the upkeep of the beaches… • Benidorm relies on their tourist industry if that collapses so does their economy… • The culture in Benidorm is changing and becoming more English…

Slide 23: Time to sum it all up…

Slide 24: I think that Tourism is bad because • It has an increasingly bad effect on the Environment through CO2 emissions… • Quite often it is the representatives from the MEDC’s that get the money from the souveniers… • Interesting local cultures are often destroyed through violence and disrespect… • And many stocks of Natural resources, such as wood are depleted to build Facilities