Tourism and Environment

Question: In many Places around the World, communities have expressed serious antagonism towards tourists or tourism. Using specific examples try to identify the causes of some community backlash and suggest action, which might lead to a better relationship with the local people. Answer: In the year 2010, Malaysian Government launched Economic Transportation Program based on which the country is aimed to turn into the high-income economy within 2020 (Hall Page, 2014). Malaysian Government has chosen eleven selective industries within this economic transportation program among which tourism industry has received a high priority (Bishop, 2014). The tourism industry of Australia has rendered a revolutionary development in the economic and social system. On the other hand, it has also been noticed that tourist destinations such as Nicaraguan are facing the community antagonism due to the entrance of tourists from other countries. After the entrance of tourism industry in Nicaraguan, the agricultural, commercial and finance prospects of Nicaraguan has immensely being affected. As a result, tourists and the tourism sector have become a matter of antagonism for the local communities who have been deprived of maintaining their regional commercial business policy in different industries due to the tourism business (Buckley, 2012). However, this particular essay has provided an in-depth understanding about different reasons of community hostility among the various places of community relation to the various industries for tourists as well as tourism business. Causes of Community Antagonism Towards Tourists and Tourism: Standardization: As per the needs and desires of the tourists, the local inhabitants of various holiday destinations have to change their standard of living (Fotis, Buhalis Rossides, 2012). The regional culture, food facilities, way of living and accommodation are molded as per the habits of tourists. As a result, the local communities feel themselves insecure in order to maintain their livelihood amidst a large number of strangers. For an example, Fraser Island is one of the most attractive tourism destinations of Australia (Kim, Uysal Sirgy, 2013). The people of Fraser Island are well habituated to lead their livelihood based on the ocean. After developing the tourism industry in Fraser Island, the regional people are gradually losing their self-identity (Briassoulis Van der Straaten, 2013). Regional People have to Face Challenges in Leading their Lifestyle Properly Businesspersons from other countries have established their business in the surrounding of this Island in order to draw the attention of foreign tourists. As a result, regional people are really facing difficulties to keep up their livelihood effectively. Their regional business is hampered due to the entrance of outside businesspersons around the holiday destinations. Cultural Clash: Cultural clash is one of the major causes for raising enmity in the mind of local communities for the tourists. The people who visit to a holiday destination for spending their leisure hour are from various cultures and religions (Ghimire, 2013). As a result, linguistic barriers, psychological barriers, cultural barriers take place among the regional people and visitors (Hall Page, 2014). Communication Barrier Affects the Flow of Interaction Automatically, the community people show their reluctance to entertain those visitors who are having communication barriers with each other. For an example, if the residence of Australia intends to visit Redang Island in Malaysia, both the Australian and the Malaysian would have to face immense difficulties to communicate with each other effectively due to their language barriers (Ltkov Vogt, 2012). This is one of the biggest reasons of being holistic towards the visitors for the local communities. Job Level Friction: Local community people like to lead their daily life being dependent on various regional businesses (Goodall Ashworth, 2013). These businesses are at lower level in comparison to the tourism industry. The regional business includes agricultural business, handicraft activities, sailing and so on. After the entrance of tourism business, a large number of people show their interest to become involved in the tourism business due to the bright prospect (Tang, 2015). As a result, the flow of agricultural and handicraft business activities become demolished day-by-day. Economic Inequality: Economic inequality is the effect of job level friction. Due to this job level friction, community is divided into two categories (Spenceley, 2012). The people who engross themselves in the regional business have to face numerous difficulties to earn their bread and butter (Kumble Pineda, 2013). On the other hand, the persons who have become involved in the tourism industries are able to see economic progress in their daily life style (Murakami, Kawamura Suzuki, 2013). As a result, a barrier is unexpectedly created among the community people. Some Recommendations for Making better Relationship with Local People and Tourists Tourism Industries Should Maintain a Community Relation Before establishing a business in tourism, the operating managers should maintain the community relation (Hsu, 2014). The regional people should get necessary job opportunities from the travelling operators. Job security may render a good relation with the community people and the tourists (Macerinskiene Pineda, 2013). As a result, local resident would automatically show their interest to make an effective communication with both the tourism business operators and the tourists. For an example, if Sidney has been considered as one of the most prestigious holiday destinations of Australia, the travelling operators of Sidney should provide necessary benefits and facilities to its local inhabitants (Murphy, 2013). The Regional Culture and Habits should not be Neglected It has been observed that tourist destinations are endowed with the culture and food habits of visitors. As a result, the regional people have to be accustomed with the culture and habits of the visitors (Hudson Thal, 2013). They suffer from insecurity. In order to overcome this kind of situation, travelling operators should change their management strategy (Uysal, Perdue Sirgy, 2012). Visitors, who come to the holiday destination only for few days in order to spend a leisure hour, should be habituated with the culture and lifestyle of those regional people (Jalilvand Samiei, 2012). As a result, tourism business organizations would not have to suffer difficulties for maintaining their business process. Regional Business Should be Provided Importance Long with the tourism industry, the importance of regional business should never be denied. Malaysia is able to develop their economic growth due to the tourism business in various attractive geographical boundaries (Ishii, 2012). At the same time, it is also undeniable that a large number of people of Malaysia are highly dependent on agriculture (Magnan Pineda, 2013). Therefore, after the entrance of tourism industry, people tend to avoid agriculture as their livelihood. In this situation, the regional business is hampered due to the progress of tourism industry. However, travel operators should never influence the inhabitants for depending upon the tourism industry (Jalani, 2012). Rather, people who are happy to lead their life by agriculture should get support. 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