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: The quality of the environment decreases with distance from the centre of Hua Hin. The number of tourists will decrease with distance form the centre of Hua Hin 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: An EIA (Environmental impact assessment). A description of the facilities / services available for tourists People counts 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

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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, 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.

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Impact Matrix 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.