Introduction The ability of the society to thrive and develop depends mainly on the diversity of its members, their collective unity as well as members’ interaction in terms of, thoughts, education, livelihood, and pleasant operation. In this essay we will focus on the core value of respect in Saint Leo University which, with a focus on doing the will of Jesus Christ, every person is considered valuable. This also applies to their talents, dignity and commitment for excellence at work and at all times. Tourism Tourism is a rapid increasing business and a precious division that contribute considerably to the nation’s wealth. Tourism directly affects financial system and this is reflected to the life standards of people among other development parameters that depend on funding to implement. There is however some negative impacts associated with too much undertaking in tourism just like in any other departments. Tourism in the recent past has been noted to have various impacts some of which are classified into either positive impact or negative impact. These must however be compared with the positive impacts that tourism brings in the society. Negative impacts come along when tourism alters important systems or behavior which could lead to intimidating the original identity of the society. These alterations regularly take place in society arrangement, family relationship, communal customary life styles, rituals and integrity. Tourism has also been noted to produce constructive impacts as it provide a helpful strength for stillness, promote pride in civilizing society members and keeping them away from city rearrangement by creating local jobs. However these social jobs are sometimes considered vague because the jobs do not benefit all people but some (Cook, Yale & Marqua, 2010). The socio-cultural impact of tourism The social-cultural impacts of tourism are grouped into two: the negative and positive impacts. The negative effects of tourism include changes and eventual loss of identity and ideals by co-modification which involves tourism changing local cultures. These factors result to changes in different aspects of the society such as religion, cultural practices and other influential factors like where the society emulate the aspects of the tourists. Tourists are in this respect expected to respect the local culture in relation to religion. The other effect can occur in form of standardization since tourists mainly seek for popular features including restaurants and hotel chains. In addition, there is a loss of faithfulness which involves becoming accustomed to cultural terminology that fits tourists. The local community should uphold their culture in order to foster respect of the local culture (Sharpley, 2008). The last concept is adaptation to tourists’ demands where there are wants for the arts, crafts and cultural manifestations causing the craftsmen to respond to the increasing demand for their products. This makes them to improve on the quality, diversity and the designs used so as to meet the needs of their target customers. This in return leads to erosion of the culture since there are major changes in the cultural commodity and for this regard craft men are expected to pres