The WTO defines tourism as an encounter between a person and a destination in its natural setting. It is also an encounter between individual groups of people and social groups. It can also be viewed as an encounter between nations and an exchange of values. The exchange is however significantly different when it occurs between an industrialized country and a developing country as is common in tourism. It follows therefore that social impacts are felt more in this scenario as compared to an exchange between two industrialized countries. The social impacts of tourism can be classified into two positive and negative. Some of the positive social impacts include social change and multicultural understanding as tourism enables people from different and diverse backgrounds to socialize which helps them understand one another. It also enables the host country to adapt to the realities of life as well as improve their lifestyle through the development of urban infrastructure, population benefits, and development of the middle class of the increased income from tourism, increased social mobility, and modernization. Tourism also promotes knowledge and the use of foreign language by the host country as it brings people of different language groups together. It also precipitates the improvement of health conditions and disease control as tourists require high quality public health services and tourism also provides extra income for the improvement of such. Tourism also creates awareness of good hygiene and health problems with the locals, which eventually leads to changes in the health infrastructure of the host country. Social negative impacts of tourism on the other hand include; social saturation as tourists usually visit during certain times causing an influx in the population and a consequent strain on the public facilities and public amenities. Tourism also influences changes in the social structure, behavior and roles. For instance, it lowers the status of traditional forms of employment such as agriculture; it causes migration of people and a subsequent break of families. Tourism also exposes the young people to the social behaviors, modes of dressing, attitudes of the tourists, which may not be according to the traditional norms and values. In the homes gender roles are changed as the wives may earn more than the husbands or start working outside the home. Tourism also causes community problems such as an increase in prostitution, women’s employment, loosening of morals, increase in crime and negative demonstrative effects such as nude bathing, inappropriate dressing, irresponsible behavior, polarization of the local workers among others. An example of the social impacts of tourism on the host community can be seen in a case study done on Kaniki point resort in the Philippines. The resort is a world-class scuba diving and ecotourism resort located on a small island Kaniki near Basuanga in the Camalan group of Palawan in the Philippines. Basuanga is a popular tourist destination due to its excellent natural environment and scuba diving. Basuanga is a poor rural area with a low population marred by unemployment and compounded with an influx of in-migration of people from other p