Tourism (Impacts, Global Growth & Reasons, Environment)

Tourism is the activities of people travelling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for leisure, business or other purposes for not more than one consecutive year. The tourism industry is important for the benefits it delivers and due to its role as a commercial activity that creates demand and growth for many more new industries. Tourism not only contributes towards more economic activities but also generates more employment, revenues and it plays a significant role in economic development. Tourism is critical for the success of many economies globally.

There are several benefits of tourism on host destinations: Tourism boosts the revenue of the economy; generates thousands of jobs; develops the infrastructures of a country; and creates a cultural exchange between foreigners and citizens.

Tourism places huge stress on local land use, and can result in soil erosion, increased pollution, natural habitat loss, and more pressure on endangered species. These impacts can gradually destroy the environmental resources on which tourism itself depends.

The negative social impacts of tourism include: social change; changing values; increased crime and gambling; changes in moral behaviour; changes in family structure and roles; problems with the tourist-host relationship and the destruction of heritage.

In this lesson, students will assess what tourists look for, evaluate the impacts of tourism, both positive and negative and examine the global growth of tourism. In addition, learners will analyse the reasons for global growth and consider tourism and the environment.

This is a quality, ready-made lesson for the Google Classroom ecosystem, leaving the teacher with little to plan or prepare except choosing what is required for students.

The lesson includes:

• Lesson road-map: timing recommendations for teachers.
• Starter activity: designed to engage students immediately thereby increasing focus and managing behaviour in the classroom.
• Learning: student-centred learning tasks aimed at encouraging self responsibility for learning, developing study skills and learning.
• Application of Learning: a menu of classroom tasks, graded by challenge, based on the learning element of the class. Stretch & Challenge tasks are provided for gifted and talented students as well as a creative writing task with a language framework for students of all abilities.
• Final Plenary: This links back to the lesson objectives and ensures that the teacher is better able to carry out assessment for learning (AFL) and identify general student progress.
• Teacher Resources: classroom content and worksheets are filed under this section.
• Teacher Notes: Recommendations for teachers in the speaker notes sections of many Google Slides.

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