What are the positive and negative impact of tourism on the world?
Positives: If you stay in places for a reasonable length of time, you can learn about other cultures, gain an appreciation of the world’s diversity and how others live and perhaps learn new positive practices that you can bring home with you. It is good for the jobs and economy of the place being visited because people come and spend money there. However, if the tourism is high impact and unsustainable it will be damaging to the economy further down the track when the area is not as pristine. Negatives: It involves A LOT of consumption of fossil fuels. Aeroplanes use heaps of fuel and cause lots of air pollution. Then you will often use buses, cars, trains etc when you get there. Big hotels, swimming pools etc have a negative impact on the local environment from wastes and pollutants produced, altering the local ecology, using water resources, using energy. The best kind of tourism I think is one where you are not doing the high pace sight seeing hotel to hotel, bus, taxis, airports et
