Sustainable Tourism

'Economic' is term used when talking about...

• Computing

• ICT

• Money

• Careers

Environmental factors include

• Protecting the environment, natural heritage and wildlife

• Having little impact on the surrounding

• Make the best of use of natural resources

• Polluting the atmosphere

Social or cultural factors for tourism include...

• Improve the local quality of life

• Protect living cultural heritage and traditions

• Help people get together and get on with each other - a common goal

• Make money

How can Hotels help the environment

• Key cards so lights/electricity aren't always on

• Guests re-use towels, rather than clean each day.

• Separate waste for recycling

• All of the above

What is the definition of a tourist?

• Someone who travels outside the country for leisure.

• Someone traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for more than 24h for leisure or business.

• Someone staying at their friend's house for more than 24h but less than one year, for leisure or business.

• Someone who goes to the airport with a luggage and takes a plane to another country.

What is tourism?

• Act of traveling and visiting a new area.

• Act of visiting your own city.

• Act of traveling to school and back.

• Act of taking a tour around down town.

What are the tensions in managing the impacts of tourism?

• between tourists and airline companies

• between tourists and locals

• between locals and the government

• between tourists and the environment

What does sustainable mean?

• allows for continual reuse (maintained and supported)

• interactions between human social system and the rest of the ecosystem

With specific reference to coastal use, potential negative environmental effects associated with tourism development would be :

• more financial income which might enable the funding of conservation

• Pollution resulting from inadequate disposal or pressure on natural ecosystems

• Overcrowding together with the construction of buildings and infrastructure can adversely affect the cultural environment and despoiled destinations become less attractive