This document discusses mass tourism and its potential positive and negative impacts. It provides definitions of mass tourism and ecotourism. Students are asked to consider examples of mass tourism destinations and holidays. The text explores how mass tourism began in coastal resorts in Spain and the Mediterranean in the 1960s and the environmental and economic impacts of the large-scale development of tourism infrastructure in these regions.

1. Mass tourism – good or bad? By the end of the lesson you will have evaluated the good and bad points to mass tourism to destinations in the world.

2. When…? Where…? Why…? Who…? What…?

7. Explain how this picture sums up mass tourism.

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22. An example of the high-rise concrete jungle in Costa Blanca, Spain. Why do you think these sort of buildings are chosen when places are in the planning stage of development?