GG294 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Gossling, Ecotourism, Smog
Document Summary
Ecotourism and wildlife-based tourism, which still brings with it major environmental concerns. The relationship between tourism and the environment is complex but may be viewed from three perspectives: tourist-environment interactions, tourist-host interactions, host-environment interactions. The nature and scope of the environmental impacts of tourism. Travel: enabling travel is an essential criterion for tourism; roads, cars, aircraft and airports are all needed to permit the easy passage of tourists from home to destination and back again. The negative effects are the pollution of the natural environment and damage to the quality of landscapes: tourist travel is responsible for around 50% of all global travel and is a major consumer of fossil fuel. Air travel: airports require substantial tracts of land in order to operate safely and, the key factor in the environmental effect of air travel is altitude efficiently. Emissions have a greater impact because o the highly sensitive regions where they are emitted- particularly in the upper atmosphere.
