Impacts - Positive and Negative

What does Sustainability mean?

• Planting lots of trees

• The ability to continue using resources at the current rate (especially in an environmental sense)

• using resources cheaply

• showing lots of people the environment

What is ecotourism?

• A form of tourism that involves nature

• Exploring different cultures

• Travelling for different food

• Exploring different extreme events

How can a government encourage sustainable tourism?

• protect vulnerable habitats with national parks

• limit the number of visitors to certain areas

• encourage recycling and limiting waste

• all of the featured responses

An example of how tourism can be harmful to the environment is....

• through an increased use of fossil fuels for long distance travel

• through child labour

• through increased prices in local communities

• through wasting money on stadiums

An example of a protected national park in Australia is...

• The Sydney Opera House

• QEII

• The Great Barrier Reef

• Brisbane Botanical Gardens

An example of a positive social impact that tourism provides is...

• understanding other cultures

• protecting the environment

• creating more free trade

• work opportunities for children who want to miss school

Some gronk wearing a Native American Headdress at a music festival might be:

• commercialising local culture

• engaging in child labour

• encouraging criminal activity

• creating unequal wages

Tourism can generate criminal activity by...

• providing opportunities for stealing from wealthy tourists

• creating dodgy infrastructure

• increased littering

• culture clashes

Culture clashes refer to...

• locals and foreigners having different customs/morals

• hiring locals at a lower wage

• hiring underage workers

• not protecting national parks

Which of the following is NOT a social impact from tourism?

• child labour

• local job creation

• revaluation of traditions/strengthening of local culture

• new and faster modes of trasnport