GG294 Lecture Notes - Land Degradation, Sustainable Tourism, Visual Pollution

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20 Nov 2013
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The quality of the environment, both natural and manmade, is essential to tourism. However tourism"s relationship with the environment is complex. Negative environmental impacts: destroy the environmental resources on which it depends, occur when the level of visitor use is greater than the environment"s ability to cope. Three main impact areas: natural resources, pollution, physical impacts of tourism development. Increased construction of tourism facilities has increased the pressure on natural resources. Forests often suffer deforestation caused by fuel wood collection and land clearing. Tourism can cause the same forms of pollution as any other industry. Sustainable tourism in its purest sense, is an industry which attempts to make a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate income, employment, and the conservation of local ecosystems. It is responsible tourism that is both ecologically and culturally sensitive. srinivas.

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