Destination Management Activities
Must involve both the customer and the local community. There must be a clear attempt to meet the realistic and sustainable needs of customers.
What is customer focus?
Impacts are not constant; they are a dynamic concept and evolve as destinations grow and change.
What are change and development?
Works to promote careful use of environmental resources while maintaining ecological integrity.
What is the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)?
Buying and selling currency.
What is foreign exchange?
Preservation of customs and crafts, strengthened cultural identity, cultural bonding, and understanding. Encouraging travel, mobility, and social integration. Providing community facilities and services and services, empowering the local community.
What are positive socio-cultural impacts?
Developing sustainable practices should be integral to any tourism organization
What are sustainability and responsibility?
Scenery, wildlife, and landforms such as mountains, caves, and sand dunes.
What are natural assets?
Minimization of negative impacts of tourism, preservation, conservation, regeneration of local environments and natural destinations, and sustainable use of resources.
What are environmental tourism objectives?
Employment roles that are not permanent and may be set up as and when there is a need, such as street vendors, informal guides, rickshaw drivers, and food delivery drivers.
What is informal tourism employment?
Changes to traditional family structures, conflicts with host community and social problems, demonstration effect, and loss of cultural identity.
What are negative socio-cultural impacts?
Challenge against should be encouraged by all tourism providers.
What should be done against poor tourist behavior?
Historic buildings and ancient monuments.
Built assets.
Protection of local culture, benefit to local, regional, and national economy, and visitor satisfaction.
What are socio-cultural objectives of tourism?
An increase in prices over time that leads to a reduction in the value of money.
What is inflation?
Members of the host population copy behavior of tourists.
What is the demonstration effect?
Helps contribute to the positive impacts of tourism on local communities and can be part of a long-term strategy to help visitors make responsible travel choices.
What do local people and products do?
Income derived from visitors can support educational programs and ensure conservation and preservation of local landscapes.
What is a positive impact of tourism on the environment?
Entry fees, area zoning, and restrictions.
What are efforts to reduce environmental impacts?
Income generation, increase in foreign exchange, job creation and training, economic development, infrastructure development, and the multiplier effect.
What are positive economic impacts of tourism?
Altering a cultural practice for tourists
The number of individuals who can be supported in a given area within natural resource limits, and without degrading the natural social, cultural, and economic envir9nment for present and future generations.
What is carrying capacity?
Pressure on local resources, traffic congestion, land degradation, pollution, and destruction of wildlife.
What are negative environmental impacts of tourism?
Strengthening long term economy, creating economic benefits for local people through education and training, providing full and productive employment opportunities, expanding GDP, and creating economic benefit for local people and improving their quality of life.
What are economic objectives?
Leakages, low skills, low pay, over-dependency, seasonality of employment, loss of traditional employment, and increased living costs and taxes.
What are negative economic impacts of tourism?
Treating culture as a commodity/product.
What is commodification?