Which of the following could be the reason for the residents of Barcelona to demand that the tourists go home? The tourists pose a threat to the local jobs  A steady influx of tourists harms the liveability of the city  Mass tourism has an adverse effect on the economy of the country  A steady influx of tourists indirectly contributes to inflation

Read the passages given below and answer the questions that follow each passage.Barely a year ago the graffiti on the walls of Barcelona read Tourists Go Home. Now that they have gone, the city – along with others that are heavily dependent on the tourist trade – fears an economic meltdown and is hastily drawing up plans to lure visitors back while placating tourist-weary residents.Trade associations predict at least 15% of businesses and one in four restaurants in Barcelona city centre will close permanently as a result of coronavirus and the outlook is similarly grim in other urban tourist destinations, with tens of thousands of jobs at risk.But Covid-19 has got the mayors of some of Europe’s most heavily visited cities, academics and urban scholars all singing the same tune: the collapse of the travel industry caused by the virus offers a unique opportunity for cities plagued by mass tourism to rethink their business model.“We want to have a sustainable visitor economy that doesn’t harm the liveability of our cities,” said Heleen Jansen, corporate communications coordinator at Amsterdam & partners, a non-profit organization that advises Amsterdam on how to market itself.However, good intentions are one thing, concrete proposals another. According to Janet Sanz, Barcelona’s deputy mayor, cities that have grown dependent on tourism are paying the price for having a monocultural economy and now the challenge is to diversify.Easier said than done with the scale of tourism in these cities. Barcelona, which has a population of 1.6 million, received 30 million visitors in 2019; Venice, 270,000 residents, 25 million visitors; Amsterdam, population 873,000, welcomed 19 million tourists. In Venice, mass tourism has in recent years been seen as a threat to the city’s survival, but now the debate has switched to how it will pull through with fewer visitors. With tens of thousands of jobs at stake, the headache for cities is how to rethink tourism without causing mass unemployment. “There are people who think that the city is magnificent the way it is, without tourists,” said Xavier Marcé, the Barcelona counsellor responsible for tourism. “But they may change their view when the state stops paying 80% of their salary in September and unemployment goes up to 18%.” In the meantime, no one expects travel to recover significantly this year, so for now it is a question of wait and see.

Which of the following statements is not validated by the passage? Certain European cities which were hitherto dependent on tourism are now looking at other options to sustain their economies.  Unless tourism is revived in cities like Barcelona, Venice etc. unemployment will increase manifold.  Barcelona received the maximum number of tourists in the year 2019, compared to Venice and Amsterdam.  It is highly impossible for a monocultural economy to thrive if it diversifies to any other form.

Which of the following is a social/psychological determinant influencing tourism demand? Select one:a.political stabilityb.past experiencec.value of currencyd.distribution of incomes

why is the main reason behind unsustainable tourism today due to an overemphasis on the economic dimension of tourism, and not on social or environmental dimensions?

Tourism consumers who do not travel for some given reason and are likely to become actual demand in the future, when circumstances allow is known as:Select one:a.Effective demandb.Suppressed demandc.Substitute demandd.Real demand