The Impact of Tourism on Benidorm

Map of BenidormBefore the tourist hype Benidorm was a teensy fishing village, with a relatively small population whose main income was obtained by means of fishing the local coast, the Costa del Sol but quickly became Spains biggest pass resort for people from foreign countries, and at its peak, it was attracting four million tourists each(prenominal) year.Benidorm in the 1960sBetween 1930 and 1970 it became unmatched of the most visited tourist destinations. The concomitant that its in one of the most southern regions of Spain and is faces the sun is one of the m any grounds so many people were drawn to Benidorm. Another reason it became so popular is the fact that it is only a 2-3 hour leak from most places in Europe and its cheap and affordable for most families.For the majority of the local people tourism is their income in one mien or another, with 85% of income being from tourism. Benidorm is the most affluent ara of Spain collectable to tourism. There is loads of w ork for the local people and most are flexible due to their nature. There is as well a sense of globalisation as people get to get a taste of a different culture for example eating in foreign provender restaurants.Overcrowding in BenidormThere is however some major invalidating impacts of tourism in Benidorm, for example it is overcrowded, the population has increased from 700,000 to 110,000,00. A lot of the negative impacts effect the local environment such as hardly any of the beach is natural and is constantly having to be replenished due to erosion primarily due to humans. There is also similarly much rubbish to multitude with and roads are congestion due to too many cars and too little busses. Local people who arent that wealthy may also struggle to fins houses as house prices have increased due to the postgraduate demand for second homes, people are also reliant on tourism and in that respect is a loss of independence.Over the last hardly a(prenominal) years Benidorm has been trying to shake of the lager lout reputation it became to progress mainly due to essence of British tourist go there just to party and become disorderly. Tourism officials decided they did not exigency that label and wanted to make it more family friendly and are fixed to shake the bad reputation they have developed due to the amount of drunken people. There are plans to build more 4-5 star hotels to receive the tourist they had started to lose due to their bad reputation