M1.8: Impacts and Sustainability of TourismA2
M1.8: Module Intro
M1.8: Impacts and Sustainability of Tourism
Our enquiry
Can tourism keep growing without damaging the places and people that visitors come to see?
Money → People → Limits → Sustainability → Visitor choices
Follow the questions towards your final judgement. At selected handovers, pause briefly to think or discuss. On the full module path, keep a written connection after One Change, Three Ripples and Build the Big Picture.
⭐ Your path13 steps. The important knowledge in this module: the backbone you need to practise. Do them in order.0 of 13 done
Set up the enquiry
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I can sort the impacts of tourism into economic, social and environmental, and say whether each is positive or negative
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I can explain what makes tourism sustainable, and how climate change affects it
How does tourism money stay or leave?
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I can explain the economic impacts of tourism, including the multiplier effect and leakage
Who gains, who loses?
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I can explain the social and environmental impacts of tourism on host communities, and who gains and who loses
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I can explain the social and environmental impacts of tourism on host communities, and who gains and who loses
How much tourism can a place manage?
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I can explain tourism carrying capacity and how places try to stay within it
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I can explain tourism carrying capacity and how places try to stay within it
What makes tourism sustainable?
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I can explain what makes tourism sustainable, and how climate change affects it
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I can calculate and compare the carbon cost of different ways to travel
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I can judge how far a destination's or resort's environmental claims can be trusted, and who should carry the responsibility
How do visitor choices change the outcome?
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I can calculate and compare the carbon cost of different ways to travel
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I can judge the balance between economic, social and environmental impacts, and whether poorer places are hit harder
Bring the parts together
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I can answer the big question with a supported judgement on whether tourism can keep growing without damaging places and people
🎓 Seminar prep
Prepare your evidence and arguments for the class seminar.
🔎 Go deeper · 3
🔎 Go deeperExtension. Pushing for a top grade, or found a step hard? These build on the same ideas, so you can stretch or consolidate.
- I can sort the impacts of tourism into economic, social and environmental, and say whether each is positive or negative
- I can explain tourism carrying capacity and how places try to stay within it
- I can judge the balance between economic, social and environmental impacts, and whether poorer places are hit harder
🔎 Go deeperExtension. Pushing for a top grade, or found a step hard? These build on the same ideas, so you can stretch or consolidate.
- I can sort the impacts of tourism into economic, social and environmental, and say whether each is positive or negative
- I can explain tourism carrying capacity and how places try to stay within it
- I can judge the balance between economic, social and environmental impacts, and whether poorer places are hit harder