Globalization's Impact on Tourism in Cambodia

Research §

💡 Tourism and Globalization is a packaged deal, so our topic is correct

• What is the globalization of tourism’s impact on society?
  • The People
    • Culture & traditions
    • How has it changed the way people live, between a pre-globalized world and a post-globalized world
• Societal Impacts ¹
  • removal of social or national prejudices
  • promote mutual understanding between hosts and guests
    • Diversify Cambodia’s culture: understanding of foreign cultures and norms
  • encourage civic involvement and local pride in a destination:
  • improve the quality of life of locals: communities outside of cities but near tourist destinations can have a market built based on tourism or service sector
    • How social media has increased tourism in cambodia ²
      • The increase in social media technology and its popularity in the forms of reviews, websites, and sensational posts affects the way people, foreign or domestic, plan their trips in Cambodia.
      • The relationship between social media and the tourism industry is radically shifting the way travelers and tourists search, deliver, and justify information related to tourism have highlighted the role of social networking in promoting the leisure business.
        • It helps spread more niche tourist destinations
        • people turn to social media for engaging, entertaining, informative, reliable, useful, valuable and accurate about their tourist destinations
    • Tourism may positively impact Cambodia and the large cities in terms of economic advantages, employment opportunities, foreign exchange earnings, and growth in the service sector, however very little of these benefits trickle down to remote areas and rural communities. ^{3 4}
      • Solution: Community based tourism: visiting people in rural environments, not tourism destination. To have more equal between city center (tourist destination) and more uninteresting parts of the country. ⁵
  • including the vitality of local communities
  • increase availability of recreation facilities and opportunities
• Societal Impacts - Resan
  • Cambodia’s tourism sector has increasingly been playing a crucial role and is the key to the country’s socio-economic development. ⁶
    • The purpose of this paper is to investigate how value changes in Cambodian society affect development of the tourism industry and to evaluate the events having potential impact on tourism market development.
    • It is predicted that there will not be much change in value orientations of Cambodians, except for significant change in high value of materialism and interactive learning and cultural exchanges.
  • Negatives
    • Water shortage – It is very evident that the tourism industry overuses the water resources for the development of golf courses, swimming pools, hotels, and even the personal use of water by some tourists. ³
    • effects on indigenous peoples have been profound: wide-scale eviction from their lands; economic dislocation; a breakdown of traditional values; environmental degradation; and commodification of culture, including degradation of cultural sites when historic sites and buildings are demolished to make way for tourist facilities ¹
      • But traditional values aren’t being destroyed, but more like evolves Constructivism

References §

Footnotes §

1. Globalization of Tourism: Drivers and Outcome ↩ ↩²

2. Effect of Social Media in Tourism (Case in Cambodia) (longdom.org) ↩

3. Why sustainable tourism in Cambodia - Impact Explorer Cambodia ↩ ↩²

4. Sci-Hub | The value of community-based tourism in Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia. Tourism Geographies, 19(3), 378–397 | 10.1080/14616688.2016.1183143 ↩

5. What is Community Based Tourism (and Why Does It Matter?) | Pro Niti (pronititravel.com) ↩

6. Sci-Hub | Assessing tourism market potential in a dynamic emerging economy. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 24(2), 199–221 | 10.1108/13555851211218020 ↩