The impacts of mass tourism

Package holidays are a large part of Mass Tourism, this is a branch of tourism which large TNCs shape developments according to global demand. It is a large scale, commercial, Focused on popular destinations but does not give much back to the local community. Mass tourism has brought positives and negatives, mainly economic, socio-cultural and environmental. 

Countries which have positives impacts from tourism are Southern Europe, the middle east, Africa, southeast Asia and central America. These countries benefit from tourisms effects by being labour intensive, which creates many jobs, not just in hotels and restaurants but in other tourist services such as transport, this helps the local economy grow. There is a downside though, such as many large tourism agencies are owned by large companies, which take most the profit, not helping the local economy as much as it could and taking up to 90% of the trips cost.

Tourisms effect on culture is mainly negative, with the disruption of current culture and bringing in new culture, wiping out the original  culture. Also the more people at a location the more likely there is to be tension with local people since tourists can easily offend traditional values of local people, and/or codes of behaviour in a  number of ways.

There is also mainly a negative impact on environment with traveling CO2 emissions and the waste the tourists create, although ecotourism does provide an opportunity for people to learn about the environment and become more supportive of environmental conservation.