Tourism and the Enviornment 10/1

Key Environmental issues to address

  • Depletion and pollution of land resources

  • Depletion of pollution of water resources

  • Depletion of the ozone layer

  • Acid Rain

  • Climate change

Depletion & pollution of land resources

United Nations International Maritime Organization (UNIMO):

  • The IMO Convention began in 1958 and the new Organization met for the first time the following year.

How does tourism contribute to climate change?

  • Tourism industry has yet to fully explore its own contributions

  • Major. Travel impacts

    • Air travel growth + CO2 emission

Tourism and water use

  • Globally, direct water consumption for tourism represents significantly less than 1% of overall consumption

  • An average tourist uses 440 liters of water per day

  • An average city dwellers use approximately 250 liters of water per day

Positive impacts?

  • Tourist expieriences can contribute to greater environmental concern

  • Destinations have incentive to protect environmental assets

  • Tourist dollars can be used for protection

Impacts of Natural resource and the environmental on toruism

Chronic Wasting Disease

  • Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease found in deer and elk. Thes disease attacks the brain of infected deer and elk, causing the animals to become emancipated, display abnormal behavior, lose bodily functions to die.

Other impacts

  • Natural resources on tourism

    • Natural resources as market delineators

    • Types of natural resource that exist in an area help define that types of people who wilt ravel to that area