Need conclusion and recommendations for HOSP 730 Food,Culture and contemporary issues

Thailand is very famous for tourism. One of the reasons behind this is that it is the only country in southeast Asia to never been not colonized by Europeans. Because of this, everyone thinks that it has unique culture which is not anywhere else in the world. Thailand has become a huge destination because of this culture.

There is a both positive and negative impact of economic, social and cultural factors on tourism. The most obvious impact is that tourism is the source of income for every country. According to research done by researchers, tourists and travels contributed 20.6% of the total in the GDP of Thailand. If the country’s tourist market is wide then it will create a great employment opportunities for the local people. It offered 14.6 million jobs in Thailand which is 55% of the total jobs. In addition to this, Tourism doesn’t mean that people just came to see the beauty of that place, they also need necessary things with it like hotels to stay-in, delicious food to eat and awesome places to do shopping. These things contributed a lot in the Thailand’s economy. Beside these positive aspects, it also has a negative impact. Firstly, lack of education, there is no need of any special knowledge to do jobs in it. Most workers do like selling goods to consumers, floor cleaning and dish washing in restaurants which do not require any degree. Secondly, they increase the prices of everything in tourism season, which is not fair for local people and lastly 70% of money spent by tourists come to restaurants, hotels, airlines and foreign owned tourist operators.

People are more attracted towards Thailand because of the temples and beautiful beaches and special attraction is their rich culture and way of life. Mainly people live in Thailand are Buddhists so they have different beliefs and culture, their culture teaches them to be very friendly with everyone which tourists like the most. It also has a cons for example, because of huge amount of people visited Thailand, local people start supplying drugs to them so that they can earn more income illegally. But it leads to increase in crime rate. Because of high demand of tourists, foreign companies run the local companies places which results in less earnings of local people.

There is no doubt that the culture of the country promotes the destination. Like in Thailand as well, their culture promote it to tourists. It helps to make distinctive from other country. It helps to adapt the changes of each other’s country like, language, way of dressing, eating habbits .

All the tourism factors contributing to the positive and negative aspects of tourism.

The culture in Thailand is way different from western culture. It is hard for everyone to adopt theirs and more hard for the people of Thailand to adopt ours. They don’t say good afternoon, good morning and good evening, they say WAI that is the way they used to greet people.

Specialities of thailand:

· Destination weddings

· Exotic honeymoons

· Off-the-beaten-path tailor-made trips

· Israel and Jordan

· Maldives & Seychelles

Eating customs:

In Thailand, it can be seen that or its their culture that only senior ladies order the food and bill goes to the richest person. They usually eat with chopsticks but now they are changing some traditions and trying to adopt western culture like they start eating with a knife and fork. But still they believe in old thai traditions and superstitions for example they think that if you leave your chopsticks in a bowl then it is considered as a bad luck. If you leave your food a bit on your plate then they consider it a good that means you are full, but if you leave rice then it is considered wasteful.

Food is the main thing that comes in the mind of people when they think about Thailand. Aromatic spices, and a distinctive blend of sweet, sour, salty, and savory flavors characterize Thai cuisine.

The typical Thai meal consists of rice served alongside various curries, sauces, and vegetable dishes. Soups are an important part of the meal, and often include a unique blend of spices and flavors. Noodles are also popular. Thailand’s markets and street food are a huge part of Thai food culture.

Food is served in two ways :

“raad khao” (individual dish)

“gap khao” (seperate dish)

· Individual Dish

In the past, Thai people had large families. Due to the difficulty of eating together at the same time, placing the rice side dish and the rice on the same dish and serving individually is to some extent supplanting the traditional Thai dining style.

· Separated Dish

The rice side dishes are separately served with the rice (not same dish). Normally, this style is suitable for eating with others. The shared rice side dishes are in the center of the circle. Each has their own rice while the side dishes are shared by transferring them with the shared spoons to the individual rice dishes.

Their food is also different from others, but people like to trying different dishes. But their customs and beliefs are not right like to leave chopsticks in a bowl is not good. Tourists doesn’t know these things when they visit the country and if they come to know about this later then they will not feel good.

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