Positive
- Excellent employment opportunities and economic growth (InterVISTAS Consulting Inc, 2017)
- Creating ways for humans and nature to coexist, taking the problems that humans have caused to wildlife and using tourism to educate the public, for example creating a wildlife rehab (Tamminga, 2020)
- Sustainability commitment to visitors by providing tips through the visitor centre and website (Tourism Kelowna, 2020g)
- Economic Impact of Tourism in Kelowna (Tourism Kelowna, 2020f):
- $1.25 Billion Total Economic Output
- $620 Million in Total GDP
- $337 Million Visitor Spending
- $142 Million in Tax Revenues
- 11,890 Total Jobs Created
Negative
- With the pandemic, tourists are flocking to Kelowna and that is having an influx of outbreaks (CBC News, 2020)
- Building a hotel in a parking lot it is taking away already limited parking in that area, and at the same time adding more people who will be requiring parking (Lowe, 2020)
- As more people move to shorefront homes it is causing environmental damage to the Okanagan waterside (Gaffney, 2017; Smith, 2017).
- The development of housing complexes to accommodate the growing population is causing local neighbourhoods to feel they are losing their sense of community (Emmerik, 2020)
- Having more tourists and people enjoying nature but not following the Leave No Trace Protocols has resulted in negative effects on animals around parks. Such as a bear being euthanized because it was drawn towards human garbage (Berry, 2020)
