Advantages and disadvantages of tourism

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Lesson 3

The advantages and disadvantages of tourism

Starter – Odd one Out

Great wall of

China

Trafalgar

Square

Notre Dame

Times Square Niagara Falls

Disneyland Paris Tokyo Disney

The vatican

Louvre

The coliseum

Fishermans

Wharf

Sydney opera house

Grand Canyon Empire State

Building

Taj Mahal Giza Pyramids

London Eye

Magic Kingdom,

Orlando

Advantages and Disadvantages of tourism

Objective:

To know how tourism can affect people, places and the economy in a positive and negative way.

4. Add annotations to you all your labels explaining the positives and negatives of each development.

Holiday Island

Success Criteria

1. Make your island. It does not have to be the same but must have natural features that attract tourist and be completely undeveloped.

5. Decide whether each one is Environmental,

Economic or Social.

2. Write a short description about why your island is going to be good for tourist development

3. Write a list of things that might be developed for the tourism industry for the island and add them to the best places on you map.

Individual Tasks

1. Complete the worksheet about advantages and disadvantages.

2. Explain how tourism can damage the environment

3. Explain how it can be good for the local people

4. ‘Tourism is a double-edged sword’.

Explain this statement.

Plenary

Just a minute:

One person has to speak for one minute about the advantages of tourism without; repetition, deviation or hesitation!

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