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Social and cultural impacts on hosts and guests

In examining the environmental and economica impacts of tourism it has become apparent thath these do not differ vastly in kind from the environmental and economic impacts of othera industries.The same cannot be said abouta tourism's social and cultural impacts, that is, its effects on people, their quality of life and their values, customs and beliefs.They may be better or worse depend ing on geographical conditions or social and economic circumstances, but they are essentially comparable.

Social and cultural impacts on hosts and guests

In examining the environmental and economica impacts of tourism it has become apparent thath these do not differ vastly in kind from the environmental and economic impacts of othera industries. They may be better or worse depend ing on geographical conditions or social and economic circumstances, but they are essentially comparable. The same cannot be said abouta tourism's social and cultural impacts, that is, its effects on people, their quality of life and their values, customs and beliefs. For tourism ish unique in bringing the consumer to the product rather than the other way round. Producers of manufactured goods, and most people in the supply chain of services like telecommunications and banking, may never see the purchasers of their goods and services. Tourists, however, are seen not only by people who work in the tourisma industry but also by others who may have nothing to do with it.

It is inevitable therefore that the presence of large numbers of tourists - many from cultures ranging in degrees of difference from that of their hosts - will have an effect on the societies they visit, and not improbable that they should in their