ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF TOURISM

ENVIRONMENTAL

Second National Level Interdisciplinary Seminar on "Exploring Emerging Trends and Innovation in Research in Commerce, Science & Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences”

Tourism is one of the biggest and fastest growing sectors in the global economy and has significant impact on environment, culture, society and also on economy both positively and negatively. The unfavourable impact that tourism can have on the environment both undermines the basic resource for tourism can have in coastal areas and heavily affects other non-tourist economic activities. There is a need to minimise the various impacts which badly affects tourism sectors by proper tourism planning, managing and undertaking in a way that is environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial and economically feasible. Focus should be given more on Ecotourism and proper planning on balanced use of resources. The negative impact of tourism development can gradually destroy environmental resources on which it depends. The objective is to see the impact of tourism both positively and negatively on the environment and to find out the direct impact of tourist activities in the respective tourism areas. Tourism has the potential to create beneficial effects on the environment by causal to environment protection and conservation. The relationship of tourism with the environment is complex. It involves many activities that can have unpleasant environmental effects. The main purpose of the paper is to review various environmental impacts of tourism and the effects of tourism on various natural resources, environmental pollution and on physical environment.

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