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· Use the RUBRIC to guide you when answering.

· Cite all sources - as per APA standards. Do NOT just put a list of website addresses on the back page. Citing sources involves LINKING the source to the relevant text. If you are using information from our classes, PowerPoints, etc. you do not, for this assignment, need to cite the source APA style. You can simply say "as discussed in our class about Socio/Cultural Impacts".

Please put some thought into this paper. I want to hear your fact based opinions. I also want to see that you have watched and understood the videos and that you are able to connect their content to the theory that we discussed in our classes.

You will upload it into TURNITIN...as well as upload it into the Assignment Page in BlackBoard. As usual, the due date/time also applies to TurnitIN.

NOTE: PLAGIARISM includes cutting and pasting sentences and paragraphs from other sources. Even if you cite that source, using other people's work as the body of your work is not acceptable. You need to read, discuss concepts with each other and then put your OWN ideas into your paper. As usual, plagiarism in an assignment results in a mark of ZERO.

ONE: Consider the Mosuo Tribe and Chinese Golf Course videos and comment on the socio/cultural impacts of the actions taken by business and governments in each.

Key concepts to include in your answer;

· What is changing in the local society in each case?

· Who is being "hurt" by the Tourism in each area and who is benefitting from the Tourism in each area?

· Give one specific example, from the videos, for each to support your answer.

· Which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals apply in each case? Why do you say this?

TWO: The Chinese Golf Course video highlights the damage many parts of our industry is doing/has done to the global environment and to local environments around the world.

· Find an example of one tourism destination/business/company that has done great damage to the environment in which it operates -this could be on land, in the sea or in the air.

· Provide TWO specific examples to support your answer. (What did they do? When? What was the impact? Did they get caught? Were there penalties or did the government not do anything?) Use the UN Sustainable Development Goals in your answer.

· Then find an example of one tourism destination/business/company that has proven to do GOOD things with respect to the global/local environment. (What did they do? When? What was the impact? Did they get recognized/rewarded for this?)

· Provide TWO specific examples to support your answer and use the UN Sustainable Development Goals in your answer

THREE: The Economics of Happiness talks about 'THREE THINGS" that need to change if we can move from a GLOBAL economy back to more LOCAL economies to control the social/economic and environmental damage that many feel are the result of globalization. These three things are:

1. BIG companies get TAX BREAKS that small companies don't get.

2. LACK OF REGULATIONS or regulations that FAVOUR BIG Companies

3. Governments give BIG GLOBAL COMPANIES SUBSIDIES (they give them money - loans or grants) but do not do that as much for SMALLER LOCAL COMPANIES.

Explain what each of these three things means and find one specific example (from our industry) to illustrate how a BIG industry related company has benefitted from one or more of these advantages. (You can find three different big companies or if you have a good example of one company that has benefitted from more than one you can explain how that company has benefitted from each.

FOUR: In our Effective Sustainable Management PowerPoint/on-line class we talked about FOUR types of Carrying Capacity.

· List and define each type of carrying capacity.

· Then for EACH type provide an example of an industry related destination/attraction that has done a GOOD job of not exceeding/managing that type of carrying capacity.

· Which of the UN Sustainable Development Goals are relevant to each example?

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