Tourism in the Andes

Learning Objective: To be able to explain the impact of tourism on people and the environment.

• All of you will be able to describe how tourism impacts on Machu Picchu.• Most of you will be able to explain the impact of tourism on both people and the

environment.• Some of you will be able to evaluate solutions to the impact of tourism on Machu Picchu.

Memory Maker / Note Taker• In pairs…

• One will be the memory maker, and one the note taker, before switching over.

• The job of the memory maker will be to collect information to bring back to the note taker. The job of the note taker is to record the information from the memory maker.

• You will only have 7minutes to do this.

Write ‘notes’ as a subtitle. Make sure you include each heading.

• What is it?• Where is

it?

• Why is it there?

• When was it built?

• Who is associated with it?

Machu

Picchu

• How will tourism effect people and the environment in the Andes at Machu Picchu?

“Tourists should be banned from visiting Machu Picchu”

Do you agree or disagree? Why?