GEO 802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sex Tourism, Dipo, Affordable Housing
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Try to limit the number of visitors so they don"t exceed the number of people. It requires psychographic analysis: allocentrics: preserve culture and way of life, midcentric: very cautious of everything they do, make judgements, psychocentrics. If tourism is planned well, it can increase living standards of people: affordable housing, good drinking water, electricity supply, access to medical services. Stimulates renew a sense of local pride: span bull running festival pamplona, path where bulls run, tourists come to learn about culture, heroism (brave guy) getting ready for marriage. Shows that you can take good care of a lady. It creates cross-cultural exchange and support: easy to form opinions about people (hijab, when you travel, you begin to learn the reasons, removing stereotypical barriers between different groups of people. India and pakistan, 3 wars: 10,000 visas (india), rapprochement between people as a way of promoting peace, mend broken relationships.