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INTERNATIONAL TOURISM ANDHOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................1MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................1Overview of chosen global destination........................................................................................1Impact of tourism activities on ecological ecosystem of Cape Town.........................................2Finding an Environmental Strategy for Cape Town....................................................................5CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTIONTourism has a widespread reach today and due to globalization, liberalization andprivatization, these accelerated this sector in leaps and bounds with many consequences withreference to economic, environmental, political factors and more. It is related with bothcommercial and leisure aspects, which has gained momentum exponentially but has adverseinfluence on the ecological cycle and the surroundings. This report has considered Cape Town asthe destination country. It emphasis on the Sustainable performance that must be considered asan indicator where natural area tourism act as a carrier in attaining profound understanding ofenvironment in such a way that other forms of tourism cannot.MAIN BODYOverview of chosen global destinationCape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa and is known for its geographicalfeatures including rugged mountain ranges, coastal plains, inland valleys, semi-desert fringes andan extensive coastline. This has a rich flora and fauna with one of the premier levels ofbiodiversity in terms of exclusive Cape Floristic Region and unusual Table Mountain (Andersonand O’Farrell, 2012). It is the only habitat of many hundred endemic species, and is also home tomany critically endangered plant species as well as threatened species.As of 2018, this city is suffering a water shortage, that has been followed after the 2015’sdrought, which was referred as the worst that this region has experienced in one hundred years.With Day Zero (the day when Cape Town's taps will run dry) now being postponed till 2019, thetaps are still turned off and to avoid it, people must adhere to impose restrictions to cope up withthis situation (Mahr, 2018).Analysts argued that this event happened due to mixture of factorslike climatic changes, poor planning of infrastructure, river catchments demolition, deforestation,pollution and many more.1

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