Discuss the socio-cultural impacts that niche tourism has on destinations and host communities.

The location of niche tourism activities often involves fragile destinations both in environmental and social terms” (Novelli & Benson 2005, p.249).

• Discuss the socio-cultural impacts that niche tourism has on destinations and host communities.
• You must consider at least two types of niche tourism for this essay. Use a range of different examples from around the world to illustrate your account.

Introduction
(10% of word count-150-200 words) 

• Define Niche tourism
• Give some statistics
• Talk about its evolution/ importance
• Examples of Niche tourism

Main Body

• Discuss the socio-cultural impacts that niche tourism has on destinations and host communities.
• Paragraph 1-Briefly What are the socio-cultural impacts?
• Examples: Preservation of culture/ beliefs, religion, Improvement of quality of life (Refer to week 4 for more examples)
• Paragraph 2 and 3 Don’t forget to choose two examples of niche tourism and discuss its impacts on the destinations and host communities

Conclusion

(10% of word count)

• In the conclusion, you only summarise the whole essay.

Please note that the conclusion should never include new discussions.

• Some of the key words used for conclusion are;
• In the light of the above,
• From the above it can be concluded/deduced that