Videos about Tourism

Video 1. Film & Tourism

This video explains the main components of successful film industry relations with tourism. It focuses on the way film, in all its distribution as well as production channels, especially with younger and mobile audiences, narrates stories that embrace tourism destinations. It describes the role of municipalities, destination management companies and film commissions in the development and management of this industry.

Video 2. Cultural Tourism Routes

This video discusses the growing importance of cultural itineraries, or routes, in global tourism. It expands on the significance of tangible and intangible heritage characteristics of culture around the world in the context of this special type of tourism. It looks at the links between local, regional, national and international tourism authorities. The tensions between the financial boon and the respect for the heritage element are raised.

Video 3. Heritage & Tourism

This video takes a wide-angle view on the complex relationship between heritage and tourism. It asks whether tourism may be sustainable in its exploitation of heritage contexts especially in small, local, spiritually significant and environmentally sensitive ecologies. It concludes that this can be so but management plans need to address the strains of globalisation.

Video 4. Local Tourism

This video addresses the realities faced by local organisations, civil society organisations, lobby groups, municipalities and tourism businesses in trying to manage the benefits and challenges of locally-themed tourism. The difficulties generated by overtourism and the pressures it puts on urban or environmental tourism attractions are discussed.

Video 5. Over tourism & sustainable tourism. Part 1. Too much Tourism

This presentation will focus on the concepts and notions of ‘over tourism’ which highlights the growth of global tourism numbers and markets. The presentation illustrates how increasing numbers of tourists at destinations are now having more negative socio-economic and environmental impacts. In this context the need for sustainable tourism is explored.

Video 6. Over tourism & sustainable tourism. Part 2. Tourism impacts & challenges for sustainability

This presentation will focus on the concepts and notions of tourism impacts using Malta as a case study. The presentation illustrates how the growth of tourism numbers over the last ten years, in Malta, are now having more negative socio-economic and environmental impacts. In this context the need for alternative sustainable tourism policies for the islands are explored. The presentation concludes with an assessment of current issues and challenges for the implementation of such strategies.