Impacts of Tourism Activity on Economic, Social, Cultural, and Environmental Perspectives

Unit 32 sustainable and
responsible tourism
management

Description on impacts of tourism activity generated by a
specific tourism attraction from an economic, social,
cultural and environmental perspective.
Tourism is one of the largest and dynamic international sectors . Therefore, rapid growth,
foreign currency flows and advanced management techniques influence numerous sectors
positively by making contribution to social and economy development. Henceforth, the impact
of tourism activities at economic, social and environment perspective-
Economic- The activities of tourism alters the economic structure of destination. Activities of
tourism is one of major components of source of capital and income to the local level of
people. Tourism aids to create employment of job opportunities to people.
Legal authorities needs to promote the destination as secure place and must increase financial
gain for stakeholders.

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Socio-cultural- The social impact of tourism development termed out as the changes in the
quality of life of residents of tourist destination.
The social and cultural impacts of tourism defined as way that assist to make contributing to
change in value system, individual behaviour, life style, safety level, interpersonal relationship
at the destination.
Environment- The impact of tourism on environment can be seen in both terms as positive and
negative. Therefore, the positive can be termed out as the taking care of culture heritage,
national parks and forest etc. On the other hand, camp fires are harming the forest and sports
activities damaging the corals etc.