IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN OZAMIZ

Positive Impacts

• Cultural enrichment  
• Income for the local economy 
• Improvement of infrastructure such as roads, airports, bridges and ports.
• Their is a demand for local food and crafts
• More employment opportunities for local people. 
• Having tourists who visit a particular community gives the locals a sense of pride for their place.
• Conservation of cultural heritage
• More investments will come in, which means their is in need to build new infrastructures.
• Increase of environmental awareness of the locals
• Biological Conservation
• Improvement of environmental quality and enhancement of the environment.
• It is a way that people from different places can understand one's cultures and traditions.    

Negative Impacts

• The government hurries to attract foreign tourists without the existence of a  proper tourism infrastructure.
• Misunderstanding and conflicts between residents and visitors.
• Negligence of environmental considerations
•  Local goods can become expensive so that the tourists will pay more.
• Tourists might invade the traditions of the Subanen tribe into the modern world, in which it may threaten their lifestyle and cultural products.
• Locals might produced counterfeit products of the Subanen tribe that will detriment it's originality just to gain income. 
• Level of pollution will increase due to the large number of tourists.
• Racial and Cultural Discrimination     
• Overcrowded destination may occur if tourism in the City will continue to grow.
• Focusing too much to the foreign tourists, the government are forgetting their obligations to the locals.
• As the number of tourists increase, there is a possibility that the rate of crime rates also increases.
• Some locals may eventually imitate the ways of tourists, which may be inappropriate in their own communities.
• Tourists would tend to be regarded by the locals as more superior than them.
• Some tourism projects might create social impacts that will result in conflicts between the community and business operators.
• Vandalism of historical sites of the city.
• Waste disposal problems
• In wanting to bring in tourists to attractions, tourists facilities are built beside or within a natural area.

Impacts of Tourism to the DOT of Ozamiz; Sociocultural Identity

          Tourism is a fast growing industry in the Philippines which provides a different advantages not only to the people but also, to the country as well. Ozamiz City has a rich culture that can be offered to a lot of tourists which  gives them the identity to be different in any other cities, the attractions portray a great part of its history and people gains a sense of pride out from it and it is the reason why their is in need to showcase it to the public.