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Tourism topic 2.1. (Environmental Impacts) - Coggle Diagram
Tourism topic 2.1. (Environmental Impacts)
Positive Impacts
Conservation of environments and preservation of biodiversity
maintain a pristine environment to attract tourists to visit
tourism revenue generated in the destination regions may be used to fund the protection of the aquatic system and terrestrial ecosystems. protecting biodiversity
This can be done through:
Establishing protected areas or national parks where development is restricted in order to ensure the habitats are undisturbed.
Employing and training specialised staff to run these parts to care for these ecosystems.
Environmental education programmes for tourists to encourage them to care for these ecosystems
Restoration of degraded aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
Aquatic and terrestrial sites can be tourists attractions, providing motivation to restore degraded aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems to create new natural attractions
this can be done by stopping and reversing degradation to these ecosystems through reforestation
Negative impacts
Pollution
Greenhouse emissions
travelling by air, water or land requires large amounts of fossil fuels to be burned, which generates a large amount of greenhouse gases
cause respiratory illnesses from sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides
services provided by tourism eg. aircon accommodation can contribute to the increase of greenhouse gases which can enhance greenhouse effects
impacts large areas and people far away
Inadequate sewage facilities and improper waste disposal
in places with no proper waste disposal systems tourists may leave their waste behind leading to environmental degradation
tourism industry generates a significant amount of waste
depletion of natural resources and threats to wildlife
Depletion in natural resources
toursim result in an overuse of natural resources leading to depletion of natural resources
may lead to neative envrionemtnal impacts such as droughts
Threats to wildlife habitat
construction of tourist attractions may encroach pn natural areas, destroying natural environmental and threatening wildlife
careless tourists may trample on plants or make too much noise which can disturb or frighten off animals