TMGT 1P91 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Soil Contamination, Blue Flag Beach, Water Pollution

• School: Brock University
• Department: Tourism Management
• Course: TMGT 1P91
• Professor: Dave Telfer

Document Summary

Tourism experiences are often linked to the environment that they take place in. Destinations are often unique because of their environment. Destinations that were once beautiful tourist destination regions are now being hit with the negative aspects of tourism. Tourism has many positive and negative impacts on its surrounding environment. Air transport (emission of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide) Motorised road transport (climate change through exhaust emissions, the release of particulates that cause respiratory illness, environmental damage) Rail transport (very little environmental impact compared to air and road transport) Sea transport (heavy amounts of pollution due to large volume of shipping globally) Many destinations that experience a large volume of tourists do not have adequate water treatment facilities. Waste is sometimes disposed directly into large bodies of water. The blue flag program has been put in place (a flag given to beaches that guarantee good water quality, environmental information, management, safety, etc. )