The Role of Responsible Tourism in Safeguarding Local Communities and the Environment

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Travel and Tourism
Introduction
The universe is created and blended with lots of beauties that attract our attentions, many
of the beauties are known to be the best in the world. Travel and tourism take the center stage of
going around the world observing and studying about the beauties of the universe. Apparently,
choosing your dream of destination often comes with terms like how to reach to a particular
tourist site, accommodation and weather, but the most important thing is to think about the
impact that you can impose on the environment as well as to local communities. The big issue
about the purpose of the essay is to embrace the major aspects that are advocated tourists, who
are known to the local communities, in order to safeguard the areas, they are touring.
Responsible Tourist
Responsible tourist is cylindered based on the choice of destination, how to conceptualize
with the political, economic and cultural experience as well as the impact you levied to the
environment. Being a responsible tourist takes a two-way traffic, where the tourist and local
people and communities have got a role to play, both parties in this industry are dependent and
that they require each other to sustain the industry to the next generations. The principles of a
responsible tourism were developed and adopted by World Committee on Tourism Ethics and
they are based on the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (Sharma, 2017).
Respect the environment
Since we live in a wonderful and beautiful environment, the duty is of protecting it is
within our human kind. Environment entails the surroundings present in a particular tourism site.
Talking of tourism comprises visiting game parks, beaches during holiday or even visiting
natural tourism sites. The role of the local communities in enhancing sustainable tourism

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industry by protecting and respecting the environment. The primary role of the local
communities is to implement on the measures such as show-casing to the expatriate tourist about
the required conduct in the site. This implies that they have to teach the foreign tourist about
local measures of protecting the environment (Mahrous & Hassan, 2017).
On the other hand, the local community has to show warm impression to tourists by
showing them sites and animals who are dangerous. This implies showing visitors places which
are not dangerous to their lives since they have enough knowledge about their areas (Reid &
Kim, 2017).
Teaching and honoring local heritage
Every tourist all over the world is pleased and excited when he or she learns only a word
from a particular community. Tourists tend to spend most of their time to study and understand
the local customs, language, and traditions of the local communities. However, some tourist may
visit certain communities as the course of their study, trying to internalize the origin and relate
the traditions, customs and the languages of particular communities, others tend to study about
the political, economic and social factors of such communities (Habibullah, Tan, & Choon,
2017).
The role of local communities in this context is to allow provide relevant information to
tourists who are in good faith conducting their research. Regularly, the local people should
consider honoring their local heritage by observing the ethical conducts and measures that are
based on the community moral standards. As a result of providing meaningful information, the
local communities may be provided with facilities of donation from the well-wishers, this is in
case the communities are in need of particular pertinent facilities and donations (Lin, 2018).
Supporting their local economy