The Impact of Tourism on Benidorm

Map of BenidormBefore the tourist hype Benidorm was a small fishing village, with a relatively small population whose briny income was obtained through fishing the local coast, the Costa del Sol but right away became Spains biggest holiday resort for people from overseas countries, and at its peak, it was attracting four meg tourists each year.Benidorm in the 1960sBetween 1930 and 1970 it became wizard of the close to visited tourist destinations. The fact that its in one of the most southern regions of Spain and is faces the cheerfulness is one of the some(prenominal) reasons so many people were drawn to Benidorm. other reason it became so popular is the fact that it is only a 2-3 bit flight from most places in Europe and its cheap and cheap for most families.For the majority of the local people tourism is their income in one way or another, with 85% of income being from tourism. Benidorm is the most affluent scope of Spain collect to tourism. There is loads of work f or the local people and most ar flexible cod to their nature. There is also a common sense of globalisation as people get to get a audition of a different culture for example eating in foreign food restaurants.Overcrowding in BenidormThere is however some major ostracise impacts of tourism in Benidorm, for example it is overcrowded, the population has increased from 700,000 to 110,000,00. A pile of the negative impacts effect the local environment such as barely any of the beach is natural and is constantly having to be replenished due to corrosion mainly due to humans. There is also too much fighting to deal with and roads are congestion due to too many cars and too little busses. Local people who arent that wealthy whitethorn also struggle to fins houses as house prices have increased due to the high demand for second homes, people are also reliant on tourism and there is a loss of independence.Over the ultimately few years Benidorm has been trying to shake of the lager lout account it became to develop mainly due to amount of British tourist go there just to party and become disorderly. Tourism officials decided they did not want that label and wanted to make it more family friendly and are determined 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 regain the tourist they had started to lose due to their bad reputation