L3 ap tourism impacts

What are the impacts of Tourism?

How would you describe this Mediterranean sea side fishing village?

Would you recognise it in 35years time?

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Benidorm, Spain Benidorm in 1960: a fishing village with 6200 residents, two great beaches and a few hotels

Benidorm in 1995: 55,000 residents and 350,000 tourists at it’s busiest times (most of them British).


How has tourism changed over the years?

• Complete the living graph activity 1. Carols a fisherman gets up early in order to take his boat out fishing


1) Carol’s a fisherman gets up early in order to take his boat out fishing

2) Neil gets drunk one night and on the way back is mugged, loosing all his money, credit cards and his passport.

3) Durta, a German tourist will not let her son go to get an ice cream because of the extremely busy roads

4) Miguel goes out to look for work. Only 2 years ago he had regular employment for the summer periods that allowed him the luxury of not working for the rest of the year.

5) Mercedes relaxes on an empty beach after doing her chores, enjoying the afternoon sun.

6) Jose is an ornithologist who now has to travel miles down the coast to see the birds that used to nest here.

7) Linda and Andy decide not to go back to Spain next year. Linda thought it was ‘naff’

8) Juan gets a well paid job as in the construction industry along with his friends.

9) Angels has difficulty finding somewhere to get her travellers cheques changed into pesetas.

10) Jose gets a job picking litter off the beach each evening.11) The local farmers get better prices for their vegetables. 12) The local council decides to build a new and bigger sewage

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What have been the impacts of tourism to Benidorm (Spain)?


What are the impacts of tourism?Watch the video to help with ideas

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-OC1ANy2I8

What about Less Economically Developed Countries?


Some of Mr Pinks’ photos from Morocco (an LEDC) ….


Tourism in Less Economically Developed Countries

CHOOSE THE BEST SET OF WORDS, its either A,B, C OR D.

• When _______ go to Less Developed countries they often don’t leave the hotel ______. Sometimes what tourists wear on the beach offends local ________ .

A. Americans, bar, people B. Tourists, lobby, birdsC. Tourists, complex, tradition D. People, pool, tradition • However tourists do need feeding and often ________ benefit

from selling hotels more ______ and local people may be employed in the _____ working as pool men or waitresses.

A. Fishermen, food, supermarket B. locals, alcohol, marketC. Taxi drivers, petrol, car park D. Farmers, food, hotel


TASK

• Draw a cartoon to show either the positive OR negatives of tourism in an LEDC.


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