Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Impact of Tourism: Benidorm
- Positive Impacts
- Many jobs in tourism pay better
than traditional farming or fishing
jobs e.g. hotel receptonist
- Money from tourism ->
improve infrastructure e.g. roads
- Farms + fishermen call sell
their goods to hotels
(economic)
- Improved water, electricity+ sewage systems+
internet connection for tourists can be used by
locals
- Improves economic +
socio-cultural level of
locals
- Commercialization of local
products -> more profit
- Why is Benidorm popular?
- Package deals
- Short haul flight
- All day bars + all
night nightclubs
- huge beach + hot
summer temps.
- with Northern Europeans
- Main factor to tourist boom: 1967-> Alicante
airport opened which brought in up to 12
million visitors a year by 1977 even though
the population was only 60,000
- Has: over 1,000 restaurants
+ 30 nightclubs
- 20,000 apartments +
35,000 hotel beds to
accommodate tourists
- Negative impacts
- Overcrowded -> Population increased
from 700,000 to 110,000,00
- Hardly any of the beach is natural + is constantly
having to be replenished due to erosion mainly due
to humans
- Too much rubbish
- Congestion -> too many cars
+ too little buses
- Locals who are not wealthy struggle to find
houses as house prices have increased due
to high demand for second homes
- Poorly paid jobs with seasonal nature
- Water shortages- 30,000 pools; each tourists uses 880 litres of water
- 1990 -> sewage in sea -> typhoid outbreak
- Raise of narcotic traffic
- Solutions
- English speaking police to diffuse conflict
- Beach replenishment -> sand
imported to improve quality of beach
- Showers/FPs on beach ->
stop removal of sand
- New sewage system -> so raw sewage doesn't
get pumped out into sea
- New park built in tow centre £20 million
- Theme park built just outside -> attract families into area