Tourism can be defined as an activity when people cross the border from where they live for leisure, business,religion, education etc for a stay of at least twenty-four hours or more( Mill and Morrison,1985: xvii). The concept nature of tourism has resulted in many and varied interpretations, evidencing its complexity and importance (Lizaso-Urrutia, 1993:3)
Tourism can be affected in many different ways,for example recently (2011/9) a couple on holiday in Kenya were kidnapped in the coastal region of Kenya, the husband was killed the and wife kidnapped, this kind of insecurity may cause a tourist thinking to visit the affected area think again.
Africa as a whole is know for its tourism especially the safaris which can be found in almost the whole continent and with arising issues of kidnappings by the Somali pirates, it affects the tourists flow and decline country economy.
We all know people travel for different reasons, (Butler 1980) states that different stages of continuous tourism change can be captured by the tourism area life cycle. tourism and sex trade has been discussed by a number of people, where some says tourism is prostitution, in away it is the reason being that the poor countries are chosen as tourism destinations, where poor girls/ women are paid to have sex with rich/ tourist men in order to earn a living. for example i was born and raised in Kenya and to be honest before i came to the U.K (1999..) i worked in a five star hotel, only the expensive prostitutes would afford to come and buy a drink, sit and wait for a tourist to come along, i had friend and up to today some benefited from it and know live in different parts of Europe and America, however some died due to illness/ diseases due to there engagement with unprotected sex and sleeping with different men.(2010) i went back after 10years this was not the case i was shocked, My friend who works in a tour firm indicated that tourism has gone down in Kenya due to a survey carried out recently on the number of infected men and women with the virus H.I.V and aids.
Another issue surrounding the industry is the environmental issues, for centuries the agricultural `community` and farmers enjoyed being the owners of the countrysides, however this has changed due to the fact that they are offered large amount of money to sell there land in development of tourism destination and resorts. Tourism is also seen as pollution especially in poor countries for example a program call ( Holiday Hijack) aired a footage where by lands are grabbed for holiday destination, the amount of rubbish the tourist create during there stay in later thrown in the estates/slums where the host live, like in the beaches the host cannot the beach as it is small as the rest is for tourists and the sage continues,
I welcome comments relating to the above issues. thanks
References
Burns.M.P and Holden.A(1995) Tourism a new perspective.
Wanjohi K(2009) Sex Tourism in Africa.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Nkh_nfuoEsIC&lpg=PA164&ots=0kBX7GwNyr&dq=tourismandsextrade&pg=PA164#v=onepage&q&f=false
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Monday, 17 October 2011
Diet and nutrition
What is a healthy diet? it is easy as a meal which has all the nutrition's required, this consists of carbohydrate , proteins,vitamins, minerals and fibre, But what we eat and the amount can have very negative feed backs to our body and this is what has resulted to obesity here in Britain the U.S. it is a bit confusing thou with all this media and news on how to keep healthy and fit. Health and diet is not about strict nutrition, staying thin or depriving yourself of food you love, its about feeling great and having more energy and keeping well. However this has become so confusing as it has resulted to the public been sold difficult food nutrition's in the packaging of there food, pills for example vitamins, suppliments and even surgery.( Aggleton,1994) indicates that health can be bought and sold to people who are suffering and those who are keen not to gain or loose weight. the thing is that a healthy life can be achieved by simply learning some basic nutrition's and use them in a way that works easy for all of us. healthy eating is very important to all of us and food choices can reduce the risks of illnesses such as heart diseases, cancer. diabetes and obesity however good habits boosts our energy, morals and stabilizes our moods. we all can admit that we all have busy life and its easy for us to pick and eat anything to eat on the go, this has resulted to more and more unhealthy habits and increased the problems we face especially diabetes and obesity which are the main problems related to healthy eating.
Reference
https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=picture+of+an+obese+person&psc=G&filter=1#5626886646402850306 (24.11.2011)
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