GirlGI | Girl Gone International Issue 9 | Page 34

Negative Impacts
1 | Change of Culture to Meet Tourist Wants

5 | Development of Scams

2 | Overpopulation of Tourists

6 | Diminishing Local Culture

3 | Bachelor Parties and Youth Party Tourism

7 | Places like Split and Hvar, Croatia cook

In the Czech Republic some restaurants wear
the uniforms of ‘traditional Czechs’ when so
times these uniforms aren’t part of their culture
at all.

Certain destinations actually have lowered
standards and even destroyed historical
monuments due to overpopulation.

This promotes noise pollution and steers other
travellers away from cities like Hvar,
Bucharest or Budva.

4 | Mass Development

Sunny Beach, Bulgaria is a great example of
this, they do not have the workers, nor the
resources to house thousands of tourists for
only 3 months of the year.

Places like Istanbul, Turkey are popular cities
for scammers, popular today is the ‘shoe
shiners’ and ‘selfie stick sellers’.

international cuisine so much so that their
local foods are not as popular as they once
were