How to Make Tourism More Sustainable?
Questions I have: -Why doesn't Bali invest in water sustainable methods?- Are people who are less financially stable suffering more?
Mass Tourism Westernizing Culture and Over-consuming water supplies@ Bali
Negative Impacts: - Tourists are not conservant A four-star hotel suite uses 300 litres of water each day. -Bali could face a drinking water crisis in 2015," says Wayan Every day, 13,000 cubic metres of rubbish are dumped in public landfills, with just half of it being recycled. Many highways are congested as a result of car growth: every year, 13 percent more cars are sold, despite only a 2.28 percent rise in highways suitable for motor vehicles.Every year, 700 hectares of land are repurposed into hotels, luxury apartments for wealthy visitors, or highways to expand the island's connection network.In 2001, over a number of tourists visiting Bali, decreasing to over 2.5 million in 2000..
Improvements that need to be made:-Include guidelines that tourists must adhere to in a hotel brouchure and enforce penalty fees if are wasting water
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Hotels and resorts provide and enforce recyling parctices to prevent visitors to trash.
Positive Impacts: -Increase in tourists =More $ for the city
-Amazing coastlines, villas, and temples
-An Environmental Protection Act was enacted to safeguard temples from tourism.
Mass Tourism Mistake @ Euro Disney:
Vast Improvements that need to be made: N/A b/c article was old and Disney Euro has already made improvements
Questions I still Have: If it took years of planning why was there issues arisen that nobody noticed at first?- Did staff try to communicate with their employers? -Why did they demand more pay, even if it was 15% higher wages?-Why didn't employers check if their employees were suitable for the job? Why did the employees execute their anger onto children?
Negative Impact: -Only 20,000 visitors came on the first day- Shortfall of 35 million the first staggering on to 960 million dollars -Disney reached an agreement with Saudi's prince: Al-Waleed permitting to purhcase a 25% interest and invested aprox. 500 million towards the Disney Park-Farmers and other locals protested because they wiped out their land and forced them to relocate -Local residents protested - 2 terrorist bombs went off= damaged electrical system -Due to the uniform policy and wages, staff walked out -promoting capitalism-
Positive Impact: -Makes thousands of job opportunities -Relatively fair pay -Closer to Europeans who must go to the United States for Disney Land and Disney World. -Had 10 million visitors annually.
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Real Life Mario Kart @ Tokyo, Japan
-Positive Impacts: -Requires an International Driving License -Takes place on a weekly basis (Sundays only) less traff -Phenomenal approach to bring tourists -Get to dress up in customes ic
In process: How we can collectively ensure safety: -Provide helmets and seat belts -Invest in kart backs -Invest in installment of cameras to capture people violating rules -A threat to people on the road -Planning to add tall "gates"
Negative Impacts: -Taxi drivers can be released from their job if accidentally hit the kart -People disregard rules when recording while driving
Questions I still have?
-Do taxi driver loose their job if hit mario kart?-Did their website provide with locals with more tours and extend to more than solely on Sundays?- Did they take the safety measures they said they would?-What happens if a tourist hits somebody
Beijing's Harmful & Artificial Snow 4 Olympics
Positive Impacts: 300 million new Chinese citizens will be engaged to winter sports -Both organisations have committed to reducing their carbon emissions and reaching net zero by 2040 as part of a UN programme. -The venues will be powered by renewable energy, the bulk of the vehicles will be "fuel-efficient" and run on "clean energy," and natural carbon dioxide, rather than chemicals with high global warming potential, will be utilised for cooling. -China asserts that the majority of the trees that were cut down have been restored.
Questions I have: Is Beijing putting in efforts to reduce their carbon emissions? - Are Beijing residents concerned with water?- Is water safe to drink in Beijing?- Was Beijing lying or did they really replant the tress?
Vast Improvements need to be made: -committed to reducing their carbon emissions and reaching net zero by 2040 as part of a UN programme.
Negative Impacts:- China has cut down 20,000 trees in a natural zone and will make all of its snow artificially with large amounts of water and chemicals-consuming massive amounts of water in a region where Bejing is already a water scarce city-Snow machines chilled an estimated 49 million gallons of chemically treated water. In 1980, the Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York, and now, 95 percent of ski resorts rely on fake snow in some way.
APA Works Cited:
Worldcrunch. “How Mass Tourism Is Destroying Bali and Its Culture.” Worldcrunch.com, World Crunch, 3 Aug. 2012, worldcrunch.com/food-travel/how-mass-tourism-is-destroying-bali-and-its-culture. Accessed 21 Mar. 2022 Disney:, E. (2022). Euro Disney: A Mass Tourism Mistake? Retrieved March 28, 2022, from Google Docs website: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Qq5tfLadPzkkG7ufHMNu-NqdFb7saujR3krDIHMATc/edit.
Shanna McCarriston Feb 9. (2022, February 9). 2022 Beijing olympics: Why there is fake snow at the Winter Games and how athletes feel about competing on it. CBSSports.com. Retrieved March 30, 2022, from https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/2022-beijing-olympics-why-there-is-fake-snow-at-the-winter-games-and-how-athletes-feel-about-competing-on-it/