Newspaper Editorial.

Danieal Graham
Form: 6B2

Tourism brings in money to Jamaica, accounting for 20% of its GDP, which may be
spent on critical services like health care and education, boosting the country's overall
development. This does have a disadvantage, as Jamaica's economy is reliant on tourism,
and if visitor numbers decline, the economy will suffer.
Tourism employs 220,000 Jamaicans and is a major employment. People labor in a
variety of jobs, including building hotels and tourism facilities, cleaning, working in
pubs, and caddying on golf courses, among others.
People spend money in pubs, restaurants, and other local businesses as a result of
tourism, which benefits various sectors of the economy.
On the other hand, tourists visiting landscape locations, such as sandy beaches, lakes,
riversides, mountaintops and slopes, are frequently transitional zones with diverse
ecosystems. Degradation of such ecosystems is a common physical impact.
An ecosystem is a geographical area that encompasses all living organisms (humans,
plants, animals, and microorganisms).

They must be sustained. Ecologically fragile areas, such as the Amazon, are among the
ecosystems most at risk of destruction.
Alpine regions, rain forests, marshes, mangroves, coral reefs, and seagrass beds are all
examples of natural habitats.

But all not least they're are negative impacts of tourism such as Tourism has significant
negative environmental consequences. The depletion of local natural resources, as well as
pollution and waste issues, are among them. Overconsumption of natural resources is
common in tourism, especially in places where resources are already scarce.
Tourism places a huge strain on local land use, including soil erosion, pollution, habitat
loss, and increasing pressure on endangered species. These consequences have the
potential to deplete the environmental resources that tourism relies on. There are other
factors like more than 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to
consumerism, with transportation accounting for 90% of this.

Tourism-related CO2-emissions are predicted to rise by 25% by 2030 compared to 2016.

1,998 million tons, up from 1,597 million tons.