Sociological Side Of Tourism Essay

The tourism industry has been around for any centuries dating back to the Roman Empire and earlier than that. During that time traveling was mostly used for business or is was something they had to do compared to today’s trend of traveling more for pleasure than business. As the tourism industry continued to grow to what it is today, we are able to look at and study how tourism can have a positive and/or a negative effect on the destination and the surrounding areas. When studying tourist destinations you are able look at it from the sociological, economic, environmental and marketing factors. On the sociological side of the tourism industry, we are able to look at how tourism can effect people’s choices on destinations and the city host. …show more content…
“The ability of society and the environment to absorb and benefit from the impacts of tourism in a sustainable way” (Goeldner & Ritchie, 2012). The environmental and sociological side of tourism should be able to work together because of respect. With new environmental laws being made, people are being required to stop damaging the environment like taking parts of coral reefs and also to report or stop other people of damaging the environment. Without the environment we will lose the other three components. We would lose the people because it is either unsafe for people to be there or their no beauty left in the environment. On the economic side, if there is no environment that brings people in then there isn’t any money to be gained for that town. Lastly, if there isn’t an advertisement that shows travelers the land then they will not know that it even exists. On the negative side of the environment and tourism is that it contributes to disease, economic fluctuation and transportation and develops excess demand for resources that could destroy the natural resources that are already