What are the causes and consequences of the tourism boom?

Because people's living standards have improved, their consumption levels have also improved. Tourism can give people a break from busy work and broaden people's horizons. Economic prosperity has brought about an increasingly large tourist "population", beautiful nature Let more people relieve stress and enjoy it. Last year, the number of domestic tourist trips reached 1.2 billion, a record high. This year, the number will undoubtedly continue to grow. The pressures and threats to nature caused by overtourism are a wake-up call. Greenhouse gas emissions caused by tourism and transportation have brought huge pressure on climate change; the continuous expansion of tourist areas has seriously affected the natural environment of wild animal and plant growth areas, causing non-renewable damage to the ecology; discarding garbage, picking, and hunting Out-of-control tourism behavior not only destroys the beauty of natural landscapes, but also accelerates the loss of countless precious natural heritages. During this year’s National Day Golden Week, in Beijing alone, more than 20,000 sanitation workers cleared Beijing’s domestic waste on a daily basis. Three days before the National Day holiday, 113.8 tons of garbage were collected in the Tiananmen area, more than 20 times the usual amount. In just two days of the butterfly exhibition in Jinan Wulongtan Park, nearly 8,000 butterflies flying among the flowers were brutally murdered by tourists. Some parents even took their children to capture the butterflies.

During the festival, similar scenes are not uncommon in major parks and scenic spots: many tourists sit on the ground, and after eating, they throw away the food packaging and walk away; discarded waste paper is scattered on the ground; some The man took off his shoes and sat on the ground smoking as if no one else was around, with cigarette butts scattered all over the floor...