Tourism and Sustainability : Assignment
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Tourism and Sustainability 1Given environmental concern, tourism in the developing world is unsustainableNameInstitutionCourseTutorCity/DateDate
Tourism and Sustainability 2Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Nature of Tourism Industry and Sustainability...............................................................................4Factors affecting the Functionality of Tourism towards Environmental Sustainability..................5Impacts of Unsustainability.............................................................................................................6Increased soil erosion...................................................................................................................6Contribution of Tourism to Unsustainability...................................................................................7Recommendations for Improvement...............................................................................................9Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10List of References..........................................................................................................................11
Tourism and Sustainability 3Executive SummaryEnvironmental stewardship is a primary concern to many industries in the current environment. Like other industries, the tourism sector has a responsibility to ensure its activities have a positive effect on the environment. However, there are several cases where gaps can be identified. The industry contributes to pollution of both air and water, hence posing danger to theenvironment and other living creatures within the area. The relevant stakeholders need to adopt strategies that will ensure the sector remains safe and sustainable for the current and future use. IntroductionTourism can be defined as the nature of activities of individuals that can be termed as aliens or visitors who have taken the pleasure to spend time away from their homes or countries. The mainpurpose is for leisure rather it is the business of disseminating services to persons during their vocations for instance restaurants, trips and hotel services. The unsustainability of tourism in the developing nations is coursed by its inability to come into terms with the major economic gains (Halme & Fadeeva 2010, p. 90). The industry provides employment to many people but it fails toreturn income that can be used to reinstate the environmental condition back to its purposed goodstate. The continuous deterioration of the environment raises huge concerns or else it may lead tounsustainability of this sector of economy. The way the tourism industry caries out its activities in the developing nations raises lots of concerns since it tries to work out its ways to meet the demands of the current generation while compromising on the ability of the future generation to come into terms with its needs.
Tourism and Sustainability 4Nature of Tourism Industry and SustainabilityThe essence of unsustainability in the tourism industry is due to the fact that the sectors in most of the developing nations fail to take the account of their present and coming environmental and economic impacts (Trupia 2010). The industry has fallen short to address the needs of the environment and the hosting communities. The absence of strict government policies (absence ofgovernment tourism authority) on environmental protection have paved way for the industry to tolerate or rather compromise their dealings which have led to degradation of the environment asit has been illustrated below (Halme & Fadeeva 2010, p. 97). There is also lack of integrated planning environmental restrictions that protect the environment from climatic changes thus contributing to the creation of unsustainability in this arena. Talking of sustainability, it implies tacking corrective measures that leads to satisfaction of the current demands paying attention not to temper with the balance of the environment while developing the economic sector. This is what most of the developing nations have failed to take heed of thus leading to unsustainability.The growing demand of customers that result on strain on the environment and the available scarce resources is complex. Failure to involve the local community by the relevant stakeholders and educating them on how to sustain the environment or protect it also play part in the depletionof the natural resource leading to unsustainability (Lukhele & Mearns 2013). Despite the fact that it is nearly impossible for tourism to be completely sustainable in any country especially the developing nations, we cannot deny the fact that the tourism industry can work its way to aiming to be sustainable since every sector in the economy has got its own implications. Surprisingly, tourism industry relies on nearly everything yet not everything relies on it.
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