What is tourism pollution?

Tourism pollution is an emerging term closely related to tourism activities. Especially in recent years, with the rapid development and growth of the tourism industry, tourism pollution has attracted more and more attention.

Tourism pollution manifests itself in various forms. In fact, in the eyes of ordinary tourists, most of what we notice is tangible pollution. For example: some tourists with low quality and self-cultivation litter at tourist attractions or scenic spots, or scribble on the natural environment and cultural relics. Especially in the past few years, many tourists like to write "so-and-so came here" on trees or buildings. "Tourism" is a very typical form of tourism pollution.

What I feel is more serious at present is that the over-development of tourist attractions and the one-sided pursuit of economic gains by some relevant management departments of scenic spots have caused tourism pollution that will become more serious and irrecoverable. There is a phenomenon in China called "holiday travel phobia". On many public holidays, especially long holidays such as May Day, National Day, and Spring Festival, as long as we go out and prepare for travel, we will find that almost every tourist attraction and scenic spot is overcrowded. , but the scenic spots do not have any flow restriction or diversion measures at all. We often encounter the most troublesome problems such as difficulty in eating and going to the toilet; and because the number of tourists exceeds the regional capacity of the tourist area, there are no loopholes in the management of tourist attractions. Immediate emergency measures, it is conceivable that when there are many people and crowded situations, various uncivilized phenomena will also occur: flowers, trees and buildings in the scenic area are damaged; domestic garbage can be seen everywhere, and most people who drive out Vehicle exhaust pollution generated by family cars and so on.

Of course, what’s worse is that in order to attract tourists, developers of scenic spots change the natural environment, destroy the ecosystem, build roads, build hotels, etc., which will cause tourism pollution that cannot be predicted and restored in the long term.