TOURISM AND SOCIETY

Tourism and Society



Tourism and Society

The Effects of Tourism and Structural Emergency

The impacts of tourism on the local level, have been studied and classified by different authors, in general can be seen in the economic, political, social, cultural and environmental (Appadurai, 2002, 16). The economic impacts can be classified into positive and negative, the former refers to foreign exchange earnings, employment generation, improving infrastructure, encouraging entrepreneurship, regional economic dynamics among the most significant negative impacts include the increase imports, labor market distortions, constraints on public investment, inadequate infrastructure, public services, inadequate housing, inflation, high land speculation and real estate.

In the socio-cultural impacts are seen in changes to population structure, changing the culture and traditional values, increased prostitution, insecurity, crime, drug trafficking, exclusion and marginalization, social stratification, with loss of position by the local population, the indigenous population often turns into servitude of the new owners of the land and the largest tourism companies, generational clash, the new generations to be employed in the tourism industry to perform other of traditional, ethnic conflicts and xenophobic, great contrasts between poverty and wealth (Baranowski, 2004, 56).

Politically presented modifications to the traditional structures by incorporating new power groups, the new owners of the land and plant affecting tourism in the forms of organizing and exercising power in regions where tourism developments are based, creating conflicts of various kinds.

In the environmental impacts occur at different times and settings, directly observed loss of mangroves and wetlands, overcrowding of buildings, scenic pollution, alteration of ecosystems, solid waste pollution and emissions to air, mass transit has great influence on the latter, deforestation and destruction of flora and fauna in general, overuse of the soil, dumps raw sewage into the sea by ships or cities themselves in the landscape, among others.

As space tourism as creator and destroyer of consumer spaces has a major influence and changes in general regional structures, generates large concentrations of migratory processes derived from rural to tourist activity centers, with the logical consequences with respect to water utilities, drainage, housing, electrification, etc.., promoting the construction of cities that usually manifest themselves developing countries with high degree of disorder and chaos (Bruner, 2004, 23).

In short, it is important to carefully analyze the effects of tourism and its influence on the generation of new economic, social, political, and environmental space to determine if the products could be characterized as emerging development in its broader content.

Tourism to equate the mass movement of people who have existed throughout history as barbarians, which normally exert negative influences to the communities that are the subject of these invasions so it must be because of fear or at least review the terms in which these demonstrations are presented to avoid possible impacts contrary to the harmonious development of society.

Comparing tourism analogy with barbarians the authors state their position very accurately on tourism as a social phenomenon, note that both the tourist and the barbaric mass mobilizations have different purposes and meanings but very similar in their effects on the ...