Tourism: The Positive Impacts Of Tourism And The Environment

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Tourism had initiated to development for regular people in 1845 the first Grand Tour of Europe established for British privileged class by Thomas Cook. In 1939, an estimated one million people were touring in another country for vacations each year. (Baker, 1998). Tourism can contribute to positive developments that promote social progression; not just negative impacts (United Nation Environment Programme, 2008). Although tourism persuades local communities to preserve the local traditional living style and leads world more peaceful, but tourism is still harming to environment and consuming enormous of resources. This essay demonstrates tourism can develop along with the environment by controlling the negative impacts of tourism. This essay …show more content…

The local communities can obtain revenues from tourists that responsive of the natural environment, and this income can support association in their living style; and provide the activities of inspiring local communities to co-ordinate in conservation (Butcher, 2005). Travel Walji’s tour operator consolidates conservation achievements not only by supplying money aid, but also by providing roundabout supports. For example, tourism development assistances that serve resuscitate local music and indigenous activities like a sword dancing to a faraway mountain area in the Karakorum region of South Asia (United Nations Environment Programme, 2008). Native Balinese artistic, which gets the compliment from visitors who continually praise Balinese art, make Bali earn more revenue from export. As well as, Balinese artistic made them be proud of their art and made strongly faith that their artistic is marvellous and deserving of this glory and therefore correctly admired (United Nations Environment Programme, 2008). However, preserving of traditional activity is not the only positive effect that be caused by tourism. Tourism also induces people sharing their knowledge and cause people more understand each other by using culture …show more content…

Culture has become more influential to develop the destination, and the culture of destination capital could indicate of intelligence, thinking, awareness and taste through heritage of the national. (Yeoman, 2008). Anholt examines culture and nation legacy as element of the six components of a country’s trademark, it is importance to persuading for decision of tourist to travel this destination (Anholt, 2006 cited in Yeoman, 2008). Travelling promotes culture exchange that encourages understanding between people and culture to visitor and local people, and provides the opportunity to improve empathy that leads to generous and reduce their animosity for other nationality. For example, occupations that be created by tourism in Belfast, Northern Ireland, are supported to benefit demobilize paramilitary groups as the reconciliation means (United Nations Environment Programme, 2008). In ‘Global Summit on Peace through Tourism’, more than 450 world leaders of the travel and tourism cooperation accept ‘Amman Declaration’ that demonstrate tourism creates peace industry and culture of peace that support tourism as principle human activity, complimentary of improper regulation and honour distinction of people (International Institute for Peace through Tourism, 2000 cited in United Nations Environment Programme, 2008:1). Although tourism can encourage people to understand more and

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