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Go Green Adults Thienphu Grade 6
Go Green Adults Thienphu Grade 6
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Water resources
The tourism industry generally overuses water resources for hotels, swimming pools, golf courses and personal use of water by tourists. Solid waste and littering:
In mountain areas, trekking tourists generate a great deal of waste. Tourists on expedition leave behind their garbage, oxygen cylinders and even camping equipment.
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Important land resources include minerals, fossil fuels, fertile soil, forests, wetland and wildlife. Increased construction of tourism and hotels plus resorts has increased the pressure on these resources and on scenic landscapes.
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tourism but more accurately described as "any activity or facility operating in an environmentally friendly way". A lodge with composting toilets, gray water system, and solar powered lighting is probably "green". Before you stay in a hotel check if it recycles or practices energy saving methods. Better still, why not camp?
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which reduces negative impacts on the environment. A camping trip using "Leave No Trace" ethics would be considered responsible tourism.
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