What converts an area into a tourist attraction

• Beautiful scenery such as volcanos, mountains, beaches.

• Vegetation• Natural resources• Variety of places to stay for a while eg:

hotels infrastructure, cabins, cottages, etc• Infrastructure development such as:

airports, boats (eg:catamaran),bus station, communication

•Exciting activites:

RAFTING

HIKING

SKIING

HORSE RIDING

TREKING

• Areas to relax•Thermals•Spas•Gyms, where you can do relaxing activities. Eg: yoga, swimming, thai-chi

Places to visitPlaces to visit

• Places to visit:

• -Museums

• -Historical monuments

• -National parks and zoos

• Visiting villages

• Shopping's center

• Casinos

CASINO

What advantages does this tourism bring?

• -Employment

• -Money recuaded in the city is used to built houses, hospitals or school.

• A better standard of life of the workers in the main tourist attraction of the year.

• -Places which are visited become popular.

• -Culture of the place

• infrastructure development

(roads, water, electricity, telecom and cybercom

• cultural preservation

• economic incentives

• to preserve food, fashion,

• festivals and physical history,

• The cultural preservation is very important because this is a way of attracting people to a place.

• environmental protection

incentives to preserve nature,

wildlife and urban cleanliness

• The enviromental protection is a very important fact because if the place isn´t clean the tourism is going down.

• foreign exchange

generates economical resources

The foreign exchange is the change of money in our society.

But…

What disadvantages does this tourism bring?

• environmental destruction

• The enviromental destruction is affecting our society now and the people must change this, becuase it is destructing our world.

• Pollution

Contamination / garbage

• The poluttions affects the enviroment and its consequences affects the society and also the enviroment

• cultural destruction

modernization freezes culture as performers,

• The cultural destruction is when some places are destructed along the time or by the people

• seasonal employment

• If people don´t have a work, they could not have money for maintening theirselves and for their families.

• marginal employment

low skill, low wage, menial services,

• development of illegal and/or destructive economic activities

markets for drugs, endangered species, paid sex

• outside decision making • decisions made outside of the area,

corporate dollars controlled by the elite

People who has a good economic situation can go to certain places like: luxurious hotels, and poor people can´t.