Essay 1

Social Impacts

The attitudes of locals – wanted to become more like the tourists

Infrastructure – Locals are willing to give up culturally important land away so they can build more
hotels etc

E.g. Goldcoast

Cultural Impacts

Commodification – religious rituals are being turned into a source of money and they are losing
there cultural importance

Pollution – of local culturally important areas becoming rubbish ground

Preservation – some areas are changed to become world heritage areas because of the popularity.

E.g. Columbia

Economic Impacts

Over working – Some businesses overwork there employees so they can keep up with the mass of
tourists

Employment opportunities – due to the mass of tourists employment is a boom

Essay 2

Individuals

Rubbish – Keep the environment clean and throw your rubbish in bins

Respect – Respecting the locals cultural land and their way of life

NGO’s

Child Labour – Many NGO’s work to prevent child labour in many tourist locations

Too many tourists – Prevent allowing tourist to a destination beyond its carrying capacity.

Governments

Funding – Governments fund training for people in the tourism sector

Work Conditions – Governments frequently review tourism sector so that they know they are doing
the right thing
Essay 3

Rising sea temperature

Hard corals are highly susceptible to coral bleaching caused by higher-than-normal sea temperatures.

Coral bleaching is expected to occur more often and with greater severity in the future, making it
difficult for corals to recover between bleaching events.

NGO’s are spreading awareness upon what climate change is doing and how they can prevent it.

Ocean acidification

Coral reefs are also highly vulnerable to ocean acidification. Hard corals and many other organisms
that contribute to reef building, such as coralline algae, make their skeletons from calcium carbonate
(limestone). Limestone can be melted by acid.

Noaa acidification programs are researching how they can fix the problem of ocean acidification and
are growing corals in a controlled environment

Cyclones

Reef recovery from such severe storms is slow, because fewer corals survive to recolonise affected
areas. An increase in severe cyclones could therefore contribute to the degradation of reefs
structures already weakened by coral bleaching and ocean acidification.

Noaa acidification programs are researching how they can fix the problem of ocean acidification and
are growing corals in a controlled environment