4. Mass Tourism

The Travel Boom - a Global Phenomenon

It is not only Tenerife which is benefitting from tourism - people are travelling worldwide in search of pleasure, entertainment, adventure and recreation.

Tourism can be considered as a phenomenom of globalisation and some would regard it as one of the most important motors of globalisation. As with all aspects of globalisation there are some winners and a range of losers. Ecological aspects are often neglected. Concepts for sustainable tourism have hardly any chance of realization against market forces.

Task:
1. Describe the worldwide tourist flows with the aid of the fig. above.
2. a) Which phenomenon is shown by the two pictures Above France and Above the English Channel?
b) What is the connection with tourism?

 

However, tourism strengthens local and regional areas and leads to highly effective changes. This apparent contrariness of globalisation, "the simultaneous strengthening of the local and regional in an innovative correlation with the global" (Gebhardt et al. 2007: 716, translated) came along in tourism at the beginning of the 1990s. A global infrastructure allows travelers the experience of new, different and exotic destinations for tourists.