Tourism day in Hua Hin.
Aim:
To investigate the Environmental, Social and Economic
impacts of tourism in and around Hua Hin.
Background-Consider the work you did on tourism at the
end of Year 9. The Kenya case study illustrated numerous
impacts on people and the environment.
These included:
Social-such as loss of culture, local people being seen as
submissive and some local people resenting tourists.
Continued:
Economic- such as leakages occurring from Multinationals, employment
opportunities for locals and a general multiplier effect.
Environmental - such as water pollution, soil erosion and increased
amounts of litter.
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Hypotheses
You will be testing the following hypotheses:
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The quality of the environment decreases with
distance from the centre of Hua Hin.
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The number of tourists will decrease with
distance form the centre of Hua Hin
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The benefits tourism brings to Hua Hin
outweighs the negatives.
Why the study?
These are important skills for the Alternative to
Coursework paper. Your task is to produce data
collection sheets for the following:
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An EIA (Environmental impact assessment).
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A description of the facilities / services available
for tourists
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People counts
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A questionnaire to ask tourists relating to the
benefits and problems of tourism.
Environmental Impact
Assessment:
This is usually a form of qualitative assessment ( I.e. it is subjective
meaning it is your own opinion. When producing this you should
consider including the following details:
•Location details e.g. Site number etc
•Date, time, day etc.
•Weather descriptions
•Basic description of the site
•Produce a table enabling you to quickly assess the quality of the
environment. You should consider what you need to assess.
Pictures of some of the beach
sites
Bi-Polar Environmental Survey
A Bi-polar survey is a form of qualitative assessment that
assesses extremes. You grade a site using various factors.
This can be done from scores of e.g. 1 to 5 (for instance 1
could be best and 5 worst) or e.g. -2 to +2(- being very
negative a +2 being positive).
What should you assess?
First make a list of what would be important. Viewing the
pictures can help.
You might consider- water quality, litter, noise, condition of
pavements, street furniture, quality of buildings etc. Once
you have decided on the categories that would be
important produce your table, remembering to also include
the information listed on the previous slides.
You may also consider using a space for additional notes /
observations of the site.
Using a 1-8 scoring system
Another method
Services / facilities for tourists
Simply design a place on your sheets to list the above. You
decide how best to do this.
Facilities for Tourists
People counts
You will need to again record site (or location etc), time of day,
weather conditions etc.
You must decide on an amount of time to count the people and
whether to do it once or twice at each site.
Design a table which enables you to easily tally the number of
people. You may decide to divide your table into categories.
E.g. People moving towards the beach, People moving away
from the beach, international tourists, local tourists, locals
working etc.
An example of a people count
Questionnaire
This is the most difficult section. Again you will need you
Date, time of day, site / location etc. Your questionnaire
should include a range of open and closed questions.
Part of the questionnaire should be information about the
people that you do not ask them, e.g. age, male/female,
etc. The name is up to you. Consider producing these as a
tick box e.g.
Age below15
, 16-25,
26-35
etc
Open and Closed questions.
Remember the hypothesis and think of questions which will
enable you to test it.
Your questions could include, what attracted you to Hua Hin,
duration of stay, do you plan to visit any where else in
Thailand, Will you return, What do you like about Hua Hin,
What are your favourite attractions, How many times have
you visited, and focus questions around the benefits and
problems of tourism.
YOU DECIDE
Questionnaire for locals
You may also decide to produce a different questionnaire for
locals. This could include their home town, occupation,
questions relating to problems of tourists / tourism and
benefits.
Examples of Questionnaires
More examples
Past paper example
Impact Matrix
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An impact matrix is where you place all
the activities down the side and on tops of
the graph. You can then place a tick or
cross to decide if there is a conflict
between the different activities.