GEO 802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dust Storm, Undeclared, Mariculture

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 802
• Professor: Abednego Aryee

Document Summary

Geo week 6: the socio-cultural impacts of tourism. Biological capacity focuses more on the awareness of the environment, whereas social capacity deals with the visitors experience and their mindset towards it. Large number of tourists -> reconsent the potential effects. Temple: worship lord -> elements -> protected by unesco. Majestic design, people without technology, balance, symmetry, asian discovery -> attract tourists. Control the number of tourists -> manageable -> don"t exceed the capacity. How is social carrying capacity different from biological carrying capacity. Tourism is planned well planned well , it can increase living standards of people: positive impacts to the community, government improve the social amenities, ex; roads, schools, hospitals, etc. It can help to it can help to conserve cultural heritage It can help to develop and maintain cultural facilities. It creates overcrowding: too many visitors, high volume traffic and congestion -> negative tourist experience, ex: queue to visit disney -> stress and inconvenient -> tired.