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Tourism Anthropology: The profound impact of travel on local culture
Tourism Anthropology: The profound impact of travel on local culture
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Tourism as a cultural practice moves towards local-centered travel
With the rise of tourism, more and more people are flocking to tourist attractions. What travelers do, eat, stay and buy all affect the living world of local people. Many countries also regard tourism as a good way to develop the economy, believing that it can revitalize urban spaces and promote rural regeneration.
But can tourism really boost the economy?
What should you do when tourism impacts local culture?
This book integrates the research results of anthropologists and analyzes what factors affect the tourism trend of a place.
Why are the cultures of some places devoured by tourism, while others have opportunities for recovery?
Why do some places’ tourism revenue flow into the hands of large financial groups, while others are left to local people?
Most of the early anthropologists' evaluations of tourism were negative. This book takes a more balanced view and points out the positive and negative impacts of tourism development. The negative impacts include: soaring prices and land in tourist areas, which makes local people unable to survive and are forced to Forced to move; festivals and festivals have lost their traditional cultural significance in order to cater to the preferences of tourists; the influx of tourists has brought noise and pollution, exceeding the environmental load capacity and endangering the local natural ecology.
However, tourism also has benefits. It can encourage people to preserve their cultural heritage. In some places, women can reverse the local gender structure because of the employment opportunities in tourism; in some places, the development of ecological tourism can reduce deforestation. Promote environmental conservation; some tribes’ traditional handicrafts are continued because tourists purchase them.
Faced with the threat of tourism development to culture, this book also presents multiple cases to illustrate what strategies local communities have developed to balance tourism and traditional culture.
The impact of tourism on each place is different, and each place's acceptance of tourists is also very different. This book believes that the most important condition that affects local people's adaptation to tourism depends on how independent local people are in deciding tourism. Conditions, such as how and when tourists visit, and which parts of one’s own culture can or should not be marketed or commodified.
The author calls for the following principles to be adopted when developing tourism: sustainable resource management, a true and fair presentation of tourist locations and local people, and ways to evenly distribute tourism benefits to local people.
As Taiwan develops international tourism, through the success and failure cases in the book, we will be able to further think about why we should develop tourism, what kind of tourism we should develop, and what will be the gains and costs?
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