Tourism: Good or Bad?
What is a Tourist
The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people “traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes”. (WIKIPEDIA)
Tourism in Switzerland:
Task:
Use the pictures and links below to create a poster for Visit Switzerland. Your poster should appeal to a wide range of people so you will need to show more than just skiing.
Skiing:
Luxury Chalet in Verbier:
The Environmental and Social impact of the Ski Industry
A history of Verbier.
The environmental impact of ski resorts.
Adventure:
Culture:
Shopping
Benidorm: The Impact of Tourism
Task:
1) Why do you think Benidorm is so popular with tourists?
2) What positive things does tourism bring to Benidorm?
3) Use the photograhs and information below to describe the negative impact that Tourism has had on Benidorm.
4) Do you think that the negative impact will affect the tourist industry? Will it put people off visiting?
5) What could be done to prevent the negative impact of tourism?
Benidorm today:
Benidorm video Timelapses from Javier Guijarro on Vimeo.
Benidorm in 1925:
Benidorm has more than 130 hotels, with 30,000 swimming pools across the resort. Dry almost all year round Benidorm depends on extracting water stored underground. As its level drops, seawater creeps in poisoning surrounding farmland. Water is being removed from aquifers 2 or 3 times faster than it can be replenished (Dr Jose Luis Rubio, European Society for Soil and Water Conservation) . A single golf course in the area consumes as much water as a town of 10,000 people in the area (Xavier Font, Leeds Metropolitan University)
source www.responsibletravel.com
Tourism in Gambia
Gambia for the tourists:
Task:
1) Describe the location of the Gambia in a much detail as you can.
2) Use this page from the BBC weather centre to describe the climate of the Gambia. Include information such as average temperature, hottest and coldest month, temperature range, wettest and driest month, average rainfall. What climatic region is the Gambia in? (eg polar, temperate, tropical desert…..)
3) Why do tourists visit the Gambia? Make a brainstorm (spider diagram) showing the reasons that people visit the Gambia. Once you have added as many reasons as you can, you should highlight all the physcial attractions in one colour and the cultural ones in another colour. The Gambian Tourist Board website is a good place to find information to answer this.
Gambia for many of the Gambian people:
Sustainable Tourism and Eco Tourism
Your next ECO TOUR starts here.
Sustainable Tourism and Eco Tourism activity from geogrpahyalltheway.com
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