Understanding the World of Tourism: Impacts on Environment, Socio-Culture and Economy

This essay report discusses the contemporary tourism, negative or positive impact of economy on tourism, and the impacts of tourism on environment and socio-cultural aspects. It also includes the detail about impact situation and socio-cultural of tourism, also its upcoming impacts.

UNDERSTANDING THE
WORLD OF TOURISM

Table of Content.
Table of Content..............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
SECTION 1......................................................................................................................................1
SECTION 2......................................................................................................................................2
SECTION 3......................................................................................................................................3
SECTION 4......................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Tourism is the activeness of population which deals with the movement of people from
environment-friendly place to the new usual or unusual surroundings to explore the nature
according to their own socio or cultural beliefs. It is basically the shortened motion of population
according to place they demand to look into. They can also be identified as a visitors who either
travel for professional or personal goal (Ehigiamusoe, 2020). Tourism industry is a broad range
of business enterprise which relate many industries such as transportation, hospitality, and many
other travelling companies that supply improved services accordant to the necessity of tourist
and there basic aim is to please the demands of traveller. This essay report also consist of
discourse about the contemporary tourism, negative or positive impact of economy on tourism.
Additionally, this also includes the detail about impact situation and socio-cultural of tourism,
also its upcoming impacts (Higgins-Desbiolles, 2020).
MAIN BODY
SECTION 1
Contemporary tourism is an worldwide conceptualisation which represents a approach to
study about the visitors with focusing on the situations occur during the tourism which mainly
view close to tourism ethics, pathetic tourism facilities and destination commercialisation.
Mainly the contemporary tourism provides the proper inter-relationship between the population
who want to travel and the agent who provide the services to that population. Primary focus of
the travelling agent or the provider is to supply the service to population according their choice
to fulfil individual traveller expiation (Pencarelli, 2020). People choose the destination
accordant to their demands or interests. This is used to regulate the current threats from tourism,
or tourism industry and also welfare issues faces by visitors. Contemporary tourism also supply
the safety and hazard governance strategies to provider and also the customer. These approaches
are usually used to disclosure it as a geographic scheme of tourism. This consist of essentially 3
fundamental element, which includes : Creating the region:- It is the component through which population journey beings and
ends. It is can be said as the permanent abidance of the tourist. It includes the chief
elements of tourism human action such as statistical distribution and publicity channels
for goal in source region for the tourism. It depends on the choice of population which
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can be beach, town area, hilly region. Also consist of any cultural belief regions or
regions according to weather conditions (Seraphin and Dosquet, 2020).
 Transmit route:- This consist of plan of path through with the population travel across
the region. This basically consist of the path guidance for tourist that they need to follow
to reach their destinations. Transmit route is the relation among the source location and
the path to reach the destination. This primarily includes the bus, car or train services.
aviation services, and ocean trip. Transmit facilities also consist of the separate toilets
intellectual nourishment , accommodation facility where the tourist want to halt accordant
to their ultimate choice of destination (Su, Cheng and Swanson,2020).
 Goal or destination region:- This element basically determines the area of traveller
choice to stay and additional accommodation facilities required by the tourist. This is the
most necessary element of tourism. The main elements of the goal regions includes
attraction based actions or the facilities provided for tourism which includes local
transport availability, accommodation pricing, exhibitions or localized speciality of area,
tourist-support centres and available area restaurants (Beck, Rainoldi and Egger, 2019).
SECTION 2
Tourism have both negative and positive consequence on destination of tourist. The
primary economical effects on tourism includes advancement in lifestyle, job possibility,
advancement in tax scene and individual earnings. The positive and negative effects on
gathering are affiliated to the economical outcome on tourism. Affirmative economic impacts- The optimistic impact are the emotional state which is
full of happiness and well-being of the gatherings or the tourist. A affirmative outcome
of economic includes the advanced choice of living facility to the tourist people, supply
them with the wealthy environment and also the growth in their jobs. To relish their
vacation or the choice of destination when the betterment in environment facility such as
well-developed informant inside the tourism industry or the presence of waste treatment
plan which aid to pull the tourist. This also helps to increase the economic
cognition(Kongbuamai and et. al., 2020).
 Unsupportive economic impacts:- Negative impacts are the effects which occurs either
when the population in choosen destination increases, so the availability of natural
resources around the locality exhaust and becomes unsuitable for the consumption
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(Yang, and et. al., 2021). Tourist try to avoid the polluted area. The most important
element of destructive economic impacts of tourism is to change the traditional
employment.
SECTION 3
Discuss the positive and negative environmental impacts of tourism
Most of the countries in the world have their dependency on tourism as they offers job
opportunities in rural section. Tourism as a highly developed industry must follow the basis of
profitability for a long term while maintaining the benefits for an area. In order to increase their
tourism site most of the countries come across with the problems like, excessiveness of natural
resources and many other socio-cultural problems. Environment effects includes rainforests,
lakes and rivers, marine environment. Environmental sustainability major focused on structure of
the ecological system (Ahmad and et. al., 2019).The natural resources are degraded, causes more
pollution and loss of more biodiversity because of increment in the vulnerability, floods and
natural disaster.
Positive impacts of tourism on enviroment :- The positive impact of tourism is they
can help in protecting our surrounding. Tourism has also some positive effect on enviroment like
realization for green world, encouraging the historic sites. Globally, most of the reserved areas
and forests are engaged in promoting beneficial enviromental impact on tourism. The positive
effects of tourism is beneficial for the tourist industry as well as the people lives near their
destination because they helps to reduce the pollution and save the environment (Chishti and et.
al., 2020) .
Negative impacts of tourism on environment :- The most common negative impact on
tourism is the rapidly growing numbers of tourists as this leads to more pollution and
degradation. The negative impacts of tourism on environment includes degradation of natural
resources ,increasing quantity of garbages in water ways and seas, increasing danger on the lives
of living organisms, loss of natural air and rapid fire in the forests. Negative impact related to
the tourist affairs such as depletion of livelihood of birds and animals. Noise pollution can
destructive the wildlife and human being that also effect the tourist industry. Tourism industry is
impacted due to high amount of pollution, waste-water treatment, raw material, food security,
and other natural gas regulation and ecosystem function as corrosion which effects the
environment more polluted (Lee. and Chen, 2021).
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SECTION 4
Discuss positive and negative socio-cultural impacts of tourism
Tourism industries has its socio-cultural impact on the livelihood of human beings, it
changes their quality of lives, values, customs , rules , characters arising from tourism. Cultural
interaction have both positive as well as negative effects because, it creates social changes in
lives of local peoples, life style changes, economic disadvantages and overall increase in
taxes(Lin and et.al., 2019). Tourism offers probability of getting education and understanding the
various aspects of culture, there are some economic impact which have been quantifies in terms
of financial benefits and the economic development of the society (Wang and et.al., , 2020).
There are both positive and negative socio-cultural impacts of tourism are as follows:-
Beneficial socio-cultural impacts of tourism:- There are various effective impacts of
tourism which includes commercialisation of culture, preserving the local culture and heritage,
learning about different culture In addition, tourism also generates profit for the city government.
The growing number of people also leads to make more social venue, accelerate the need for
public facilities such as creating funds for public services which includes health, fire department,
improving overall the natural resources. Many tourist use community services, boosting funds
for public health which also increase the need of public transport. (Osti and Cicero, 2018).
Obstructive socio-cultural impacts of tourism:- Cultural diversity have dismissive
effect in the matter of economic disadvantages,changes in moral and behaviour and increases of
tariffs.(Salehi-Esfahani and et.al., 2021).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussed, it is concluded that there are both beneficial and obstructive
impacts on tourist destination. The impacts are environmental, socio-cultural and economic. The
profitable impact of tourism includes improved tariffs revenue and increased way of life and
provided more job offers . Environmental impacts includes degradation , change in air quality,
wildlife and changes in natural resources. The socio-cultural impacts are connected with the
interaction among people attitudes and behaviour. The short term dismissive impacts of tourism
on local inhabitants, risk of diseases, transmission and higher crime levels. Reduce in pollution
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helps in decreasing the risk of health issues and provides better quality of life to the future
tourist. Increased the awareness of environmental protection this may reduce the risk of diseases
and all tourist enjoy and feel relaxed.
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