Positive and Negative Impact of Contemporary Tourism

Essay
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Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Describe the development of contemporary tourism and discuss its positive and negative
economic, environmental and socio-cultural impacts............................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7
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Introduction
Tourism is defined as a practice of travel for business or pleasure purpose. In simple words it is
an act of spending time away from home in order to have relaxation, pleasure and recreation.
With the help of taking use of commercial provision of services (Du, Lew and Ng, 2016).
Tourism industry is one of the leading industries around the world that directly provide services
and facilities to customers in terms of leisure, business and pleasure activities. Nowadays it has
been analysed that increase in tourism activities is causing negative impact in context of
environmental economic and social cultural aspects. It is essential to overcome the negative
aspects with the help of implementing significant strategies suggest use of sustainable tourism
measures. The present essay include discussion on the negative and positive economic impact of
tourism. Along with this essay include positive and negative environmental impact of tourism as
well as cultural impact of tourism.
Main Body
Describe the development of contemporary tourism and discuss its positive and negative
economic, environmental and socio-cultural impacts.
Contemporary tourism is currently one of the most important and essential and highly
phenomenon globally recognised concept. It has been analysed that tourism is an international
approach which presents refreshing as well as new approach to study of tourism, it has been
analysed that there are many factors such as changing world order tourism destination marketing
and pro poor tourism (Goffi, Cucculell and Masiero, 2019). It has been analysed that there are
number of factors in contemporary tourism which is described as geographical system of tourism
and consists of for fundamental factors. These are a destination region generating or source
region and transit route. In addition to this one has been analysed that the concept of tourism is
recognised by number of developed countries and is acting as instrument for economic
development for both emerging as well as developed economies. It has been analysed and
tourism is one of the largest industries around the world and also act as an agent of cultural and
change and a significant contributor to environmental change. Furthermore it has been analysed
that there are different types of the significant factors the development of contemporary tourism
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