{"id":7177,"date":"2015-11-12T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2015-11-23T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T23:15:00","slug":"tourism-and-a-fetish-for-arrival-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2015\/11\/tourism-and-a-fetish-for-arrival-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism and a fetish for arrival numbers: learning from the Phillippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7179 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/beach-710544_640.jpg\" alt=\"tourism on boracay beach phillipines\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/beach-710544_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/beach-710544_640-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even the economic gains that are used to justify tourism development may prove illusory. A destination may be receiving foreign tourists, but they may be on tightly packaged tours where they book through agencies, lodge in hotels, are toured by guides, shop in stores, and eat in restaurants all owned and operated by their foreign compatriots. Very little of the tourist cash thus enters the local economy, but the environmental impact of their waste, and the social impact of disrespectful and even exploitative behaviour, remains.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/thought-leaders\/110866-tourism-arrival-numbers\">Tourism and a fetish for arrival numbers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A myopia that looks only at total arrivals and receipts ignores the serious socio-cultural and environmental impacts of tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,16,130,535,258],"tags":[543,544],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tourism and a fetish for arrival numbers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A myopia that 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