How does tourism affect culture?

Most of the common positive impacts of tourism on culture include increasing cross cultural interaction; understanding, maintaining and keeping local culture, arts, crafts and traditions; empowering host communities; and strengthening cultural values.



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Heritage tourism can play a key role in providing a specific “ritualized environment” in which visitors can effectively engrave latent collective cultural genes and memories through participation in specific rituals and activities.

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Tourism can bring many benefits to a destination, including economic growth, cultural exchange, and increased community involvement. However, it can also have negative impacts, such as environmental degradation, disruption of local communities, and exploitation of local resources and culture.

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While it can bring economic benefits and promote cross-cultural understanding, it can also lead to negative impacts such as over-commercialization and damage to heritage sites. It is important for both tourists and governments to recognize the importance of cultural heritage and take steps to ensure its preservation.

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Cultural barriers include all restrictions related to discrimination, stereotypes, language, reli- gion, gastronomy, architecture, and restrictions related to norms, customs and traditions, that directly or indirectly affect tourists [18]. Discrimination refers to discrimination on a national, racial or gender basis.

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Sociocultural impacts refer to the ways in which tourism changes community and individual values, behaviour, community structure, lifestyle and overall quality of life; in relation to both the destination and the visitor (Hall, 2007; Murphy, 1985, as cited in Brunt & Courtney, 1999).

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These negative effects can be greatly decreased by creating opportunities for people from the host country to act in terms of cultural exchange rather than having their land commodified for profit that enriches a higher echelon.

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Tourism puts enormous stress on local land use, and can lead to soil erosion, increased pollution, natural habitat loss, and more pressure on endangered species.

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Disadvantages of Tourism
  • Tourists' Negligence of the Environment. ...
  • Exploitation of Local Culture. ...
  • Tourists' Lack of Compliance. ...
  • Lack of Job Security/Seasonal only. ...
  • Limited to Service-only Jobs. ...
  • Uneven Infrastructure Development. ...
  • Foreign Business Owners. ...
  • Disregard for Other Sectors.


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A huge disadvantage to tourism in some countries is that when the tourism industry is doing well, the country neglects to build upon its other sectors. The country will pump all of its major resources into building the tourism industry, thus leaving other sectors to diminish.

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In essence, diversity in the hospitality industry requires not only recognizing but also valuing differences and understanding how these differences may impact the individual experience. Employees and customers each have a distinct background, set of experiences, and cultural history.

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