Unsustainable Tourism in Developing Nations: Environmental Concerns

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Abstract
Tourism can be defined as the practice of travelling for the recreational purposes. The present
trends show that the developing nations are receiving more number of tourists than the developed
nations. It has been seen that the tourism sector in certain countries is the only source of foreign
exchange, cash and employment. By the next 17 years there will be more than 1.8 billion
travellers in this sector, but still, her is a lack of awareness that tourism is built upon the natural
resources that have limited and finite supplies. The various impacts that the tourism sector has on
the environment are water resources, local resources, land degradation, noise and air pollution,
solid waste and littering, sewage, aesthetic pollution.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Status of tourism in the developing nations.....................................................................................3
Reason why tourism is unsustainable..............................................................................................4
Tourism and its impact on environment..........................................................................................6
Sustainable tourism..........................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
In the developing countries, the number of the international visitors have exceeded to a
whopping 1 billion per year and the tourism sector is deemed to be one of the fastest growing
sectors in the present world scenario. The tourism and the travel industry contribute almost about
10 percent to the world’s GDP and this sector is linked with 1 in every 11 jobs. The present
trends show that the developing nations are receiving more number of tourists than the developed
nations (worldbank.org 2018). However, researches have shown that in several developing
nations or the so-called poor nations have failed miserably to deliver the economic gains. The
tourism sector is praised because it provides a sustainable source of income for the developing
nations that have beautiful environments. The highlighting issues are that the even though
tourism is beneficial for the developing nations, the developing nations are not able to create
better infrastructure like clean water, roads and amenities. According to the report of an NGO
called the Worldwatch Institute, the tourism sector is a source of the foreign for the world's 40
poorest nations. It has also been found that the tourism sector directly harms the environment and
is a major contributor to the global carbon emissions (SciDev.Net 2018). This study will be
based on the tourism in the developing world is unsustainable and the various environmental
concerns.
Status of tourism in the developing nations
Several governments in the developing nations have perceived tourism as one that can
stimulate the growth of the economy. This is the sole reason that the governments of the
developing nations have concentrated more on the tourism sector and how it impacts on the
economy instead of the other wider issues. When researched it has been seen that the
contribution of the tourism sector on the economy of the developing nations is huge and this