IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN OZAMIZ CITY
POSITIVE
- improve personal commitment towards preserving and protecting the environment
- a demand for local food and crafts
- generate income for local and regional economy
- promote local brand-name
- create linkages/access for more opportunities
- implementation of a sustainable tourism
- enhance the quality of life
- improve critical awareness
NEGATIVE
- congestion
- pollution in any form( air, land, water, noise)
- vandalism
- destruction of natural and cultural heritage
- socio-cultural disclosion
- economic dependence
- ecological degradation
- scarcity of resource
Certainly, Ozamiz City is still a developing destination. It has now establishing new forms of tourism-related
interactions that would attract more tourist/consumers such as
malls/shopping center, public and private projects ( recently the Robinson Supermarket; Gaisano SouthWing; Camella Homes/ Housing. Although
these would bring some positive impacts particularly on the local
economy of OZC- maximizing benefits, but there are most visible and deep
impacts at least on this developmental level.So we should still put a vague consideration on a sustainable tourism which respects
both local people and the traveler, cultural heritage and the environment.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN OZAMIZ CITY:
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