Tourism has significantly impacted the Spanish fishing village of Benidorm. Originally a small village with 6,200 residents and a few hotels in 1960, Benidorm now has 55,000 residents and receives 350,000 tourists at its peak, most of them British. The rise of tourism has transformed the local economy and lifestyle, providing jobs but also increasing costs and crowding. Local industries like fishing have declined as tourism has come to dominate the economy and landscape.
4. Benidorm, Spain
Benidorm in 1960: a fishing village
with 6200 residents, two great
beaches and a few hotels
Benidorm in 1995: 55,000 residents
and 350,000 tourists at it’s busiest
times (most of them British).
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5. How has tourism changed
over the years?
• Complete the living graph activity
1. Carols a fisherman gets up early in order to take his
boat out fishing
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6. 1) Carol’s a fisherman gets up early in order to take his boat out fishing
2) Neil gets drunk one night and on the way back is mugged, loosing all
his money, credit cards and his passport.
3) Durta, a German tourist will not let her son go to get an ice cream
because of the extremely busy roads
4) Miguel goes out to look for work. Only 2 years ago he had regular
employment for the summer periods that allowed him the luxury of
not working for the rest of the year.
5) Mercedes relaxes on an empty beach after doing her chores, enjoying
the afternoon sun.
6) Jose is an ornithologist who now has to travel miles down the coast to
see the birds that used to nest here.
7) Linda and Andy decide not to go back to Spain next year. Linda
thought it was ‘naff’
8) Juan gets a well paid job as in the construction industry along with
his friends.
9) Angels has difficulty finding somewhere to get her travellers
cheques changed into pesetas.
10) Jose gets a job picking litter off the beach each evening.
11) The local farmers get better prices for their vegetables.
12) The local council decides to build a new and bigger sewage treatment
plant.
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7. What have been the impacts of tourism to Benidorm
(Spain)?
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8. What are the impacts of tourism?
Watch the video to help with ideas
NegativePositive
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9. What about Less Economically
Developed Countries?
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10. Some of Mr Pinks’ photos from
Morocco (an LEDC) ….
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16. Tourism in Less Economically Developed
Countries
CHOOSE THE BEST SET OF WORDS, its either A,B, C OR D.
• When _______ go to Less Developed countries they often don’t
leave the hotel ______. Sometimes what tourists wear on the
beach offends local ________ .
A. Americans, bar, people B. Tourists, lobby, birds
C. Tourists, complex, tradition D. People, pool, tradition
• However tourists do need feeding and often ________ benefit
from selling hotels more ______ and local people may be
employed in the _____ working as pool men or waitresses.
A. Fishermen, food, supermarket B. locals, alcohol, market
C. Taxi drivers, petrol, car park D. Farmers, food, hotel
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17. TASK
• Draw a cartoon to show either the
positive OR negatives of tourism in an
LEDC.
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