1. Overview
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Tourism is now the world's largest industry, and an industry this size cannot fail to have impacts on the economies, environments or people of destination areas. Often these impacts are positiv, e.g. creating employment, but sometimes they are negative, e.g pollution, congestion or environmental damage. There are 3 main impacts of tourism - economic, environmental and socio-cultural. It is often the positive economic impacts that persuade governments, companies and individuals to get involved in developing tourism as it has the potential to generate income and secure employment. However, by encouraging tourists into an area you will often create adverse environmental effects. Indeed, the negative impacts of tourism development can gradually destroy the environmental resources on which it depends. |
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development of tourist attractions can cause damage to the environment.
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