Positive and negative impacts of tourism on the environment

Tourism has a positive impact on the environment:

1. Maintain, restore and renovate historical buildings and monuments.

2. Increase the number of leisure and entertainment venues and related facilities.

3. Improve road and transportation service lighting infrastructure.

4. Pay attention to and maintain environmental sanitation in tourist reception areas

Negative impacts of tourism on the environment:

1. Impacts on the surface and soil: With the development of tourism activities in various natural areas, both land and water surfaces may be affected by tourism activities. Different surface coverings such as rocky shores, beaches, wetlands, swamps, natural caves, and soils may withstand different types of tourism. Impacts, especially the organic layer of soil on which surface plants depend, are often the most severely impacted.

2. Impact on plants: The impact of human tourism activities on surface vegetation and plants can be divided into two categories: direct impact and indirect impact. Direct impact behaviors include removal, trampling, fire, harvesting as campfire material and damage to aquatic plants. Indirect financial impacts include the introduction of alien species, nutrient pollution, vehicle exhaust, soil loss and other issues, which will indirectly affect the growth and health of plants.

3. Impact on animals: The development of tourist areas may destroy the habitats or sanctuaries of wild animals. Tourists always like to "eat and take". They like to eat all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas, and they also like to collect all kinds of wild animal products to show their dominance. In this way, the lives of wild animals are threatened.

Extended information:

In order to achieve the sustainable development of eco-tourism, systems and mechanisms should be improved:

1. Relevant departments should strengthen the management of eco-tourism. Macro-management, improve relevant laws, regulations, standards and specifications, and formulate an eco-tourism development strategy for national nature reserves.

2. Correctly understand eco-tourism, formulate and submit an overall eco-tourism plan that is coordinated with various local social and economic development plans, and submit it for approval so that it is consistent with the overall plan of the protected area.

3. Develop corresponding policies to separate the protection functions and operating functions of protected area management agencies, establish a feedback mechanism for tourism revenue, and ensure that part of the tourism revenue can be effectively returned to the protected area and used for resource management and protection development of work.

4. Strengthen monitoring, quantify the environmental impact of ecotourism and the carrying capacity of ecotourism in protected areas, and provide a basis for ecotourism management in protected areas. Special research on ecotourism in protected areas should be carried out as soon as possible to clarify the overlap of ecotourism in different protected areas and find practical solutions.

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