Sustainable and Ethical Tourism

Sustainable and Ethical Tourism

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Features of Brazil as tourism destination.....................................................................................3
Sustainability in tourism for future of destination.......................................................................4
Positive and negative impact of tourism......................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Tourism is act of spending time away from home for relaxation and pleasure in other
environment for limited time period. This report covers main features of Brazil destination and
its development throughout the years. It also explains concept of sustainability and its
importance in future for Brazil destination. At last, it identifies three factors such as economic,
socio-cultural and environmental that impact positively and negatively on tourism industry.
Features of Brazil as tourism destination
Brazil attract more than 6 millions tourist and most of the tourist come to Brazil from
neighbouring countries and it has almost 6.589 million visitors in 2018. Brazil occupies almost
half continent of South America and has vast stretches of rainforest with exotic plants and
wildlife (Santos and et.al., 2017). It attracts large number of tourist to spend their leisure time
due to existence of culture destination, tropical paradise, jungle exploration and world-class art
museums in Brazil. The features of Brazil destination and its development throughout the years
such as Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro is rounded peak of sugar loaf covered with trees raising 395
meters above city and beach. Most of the tourist visit this place for thrill riding in cable car
between Sugar loaf and Morra da Urca. Iguacu Falls is another place that attract tourist as it has
247 waterfalls of Iguazu river at a point where Brazil, paraguay and Argentina meet that thunder
down into gorge below (Żemła 2016). Most of the tourist came to see both different perspectives
and views of river from Catwalks and Tower. Brazil has popular known or has famous beach in
the world because of crescent shape, 4 km of white sand and braking surf which is known as
Copacabana, Rio de janerio. It is also popular playground for swimmer and kids as they can
build sand castles. Brazil is a tourist destination as Amazon rainforest allow tourist to enjoy
boating to the point called Encontro das Agaus where water meets light muddy water of Rio
solimoes. Other boat trips provide memorable experience to tourist by taking them to heart of
rainforest where there is network of rivers, channels and lakes. Tourist on boat trip can also see
monkeys, parrots, turtles, other wildlife and giant water lilies in entire lake that are specially
found in Amazon region.
Too many factors such as culture diversity and historical monuments have responsible
for promoting tourism in Brazil in recent few years. Tourism and hospitality industry is growing
key sector of economy in Brazil (Karayilan and Cetin, 2016). It has wide varieties of resource so
all these factor forces tourism business to grow faster in Brazil. Many hotels, restaurants are