Lesson 3 - Ecotourism in Kenya - DRAFT

Tourism encourages the building of new roads and better communications

Tourism has stimulated farming, by creating a demand for local food from farmers

Jobs in tourism have helped develop people's business skills and created year round jobs.

National Parks have been created - encouraging people to protect the environment.

Tourism is Kenya's biggest earner of foreign exchange.

380 000 Kenyans making a living selling things to tourist or supplying hotels with food.

Many Maasai are traditionally nomadic, but many have been forced out of the National Parks.

Many Maasai are losing their land and also losing their traditional lifestyles.

Safari minibuses disturb animals- often getting too close. Ex. 40 buses around a single animal.

Safari minibuses cause soil erosion as the wheels churn up the grass.

There is leakage of income - the money paid for holidays never actually reaching Kenyan people.

Travel companies and foreign owned hotels get the locals' holiday pay instead.

Coastal Environments such as those in Mombasa have been damaged.

e.g. destruction of coral reefs as tourists step on the coral and also take souvenirs.

Hot air balloons in parks disturb animals - by casting shadows and from the noise of the burners

Drugs and crime has increased and AIDS is a major problem.

Conflict between locals and tourists.

Tourists take over resort.

Large numbers of tourists spoil resort.

Large numbers of tourists visit a place.

Income goes abroad rather than to local people.

Negative environmental impact.

Less people but with more money.

Protecting environments now and for the future.

Low environmental impacts.

Locals involved in providing for tourists.