Environmental Impact of Tourism
Environmental Impact is the outright change that can be seen through any impact. The tourism impacts on the environment aspect are detailed here below.
Positive Environmental Impacts of tourism
- Fosters conservation and preservation of natural, cultural and historical resources.
- Encourages community beautification and revitalization.
- Could be considered a clean industry.
- Tourism particularly nature and ecotourism helps promote conservation of wildlife and natural resources such as rain forests, as these are now regarded as tourism assets.
- It also helps generate funding for maintaining animal preserves and marine parks through entrance charges and guide fees.
- By creating alternative sources of employment, tourism reduces problems such as over-fishing and deforestation in developing nations.
Negative Environmental Impacts of tourism
- May threaten specific natural resources such as beaches and coral reefs or historical sites.
- May increase litter, noise, and pollution.
- Brings increased competition for limited resources such as water and land, resulting in land degradation, loss of wildlife habitats and deterioration of scenery.
- Directly contributes to sewage and solid waste pollution.
- Emissions generated by forms of transport are one of the main environmental problems of tourism.
- Tourism poses a threat to a region’s natural and cultural resources, such as water supply, beaches, coral reefs and heritage sites, through overuse.
- It also causes increased pollution through traffic emissions, littering, increased sewage production and noise.
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