REC280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Caribbean Tourism Organization, Carrying Capacity, Visual Pollution

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC280
• Professor: Pooneh Torabian

Document Summary

Tourism should be planned in an integrated manner: goal = sustainable development of its cultural and natural resources. Environmental approach should be applied throughout the planning processing. Important to : understand & continuously assess environmental impacts of tourism, consider how negative impacts can be prevented & positive ones reinforced. Before very little attention was paid to the environmental impacts of tourism. Environment = physical environment including natural & constructed components there"s a new focus on prevention and control of environmental impacts while maintaining economic objectives. 3 aspects of tourism-environment: features of physical & natural environment are attractions for tourists, tourists facilities and infrastructure constitute one aspect of the built environment, tourism development and tourist use of an area generate environmental impacts. International organization: designed to help tourism destinations save energy, water & money while attracting tourists who want to support green establishments, helps tourism industry meet the un sustainable development goals.