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TOURISM
POLLUTION
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INTRODUCTION
One of the industries with the strongest growth rates worldwide is tourism, particularly marine and
coastal tourism. Despite this, tourism has a lot of negative influences in relation with the environment.
When the amount of tourist usage exceeds the environment's capacity to handle this use within accepted
bounds of change, tourism has a negative impact. Several natural regions across the world are potentially
threatened by unrestrained conventional tourism. It may place immense strain on a region and lead to
problems such as soil erosion, increased pollution, discharges into the sea, natural habitat loss, great
pressure on endangered species and heightened vulnerability to forest fires. It frequently strains water
supplies and might make local populations struggle to access vital resources.
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FORMS OF POLLUTION
CAUSED BY TOURISM
Water resources
One of the most vital natural resources is water,
particularly fresh water. The usage of water by
hotels, swimming pools, golf courses, and
visitors for their personal use is often excessive.
This might lead to a higher amount of waste
water being produced, water shortages, and the
deterioration of water resources. Water
shortage is a major issue in areas that are dry
and warm, like the Mediterranean. The amount
needed can reach 440 liters per day due to the
hot weather and travelers' propensity to drink
more water when traveling than they do at
home. This is roughly twice as much as what the
typical Spanish city's residents utilize.
Air and noise pollution
Due to the growing number of visitors and Modern life is characterized by noise
their greater mobility, transportation by air, pollution from recreational vehicles like
road, and train is continually rising. One snowmobiles and jet skis, as well as from
consequence of this increase in air aircraft, cars, and buses. It disturbs wildlife,
transport is that tourism now accounts for especially in sensitive places, and causes
more than 60% of air travel and is therefore irritation, tension, and even hearing loss for
responsible for an important share of air people.
emissions. Air pollution from tourist
transportation has impacts on global level,
especially from carbon dioxide (CO)
emissions related to transportation energy
use. And it can contribute to severe local air
pollution. Some of these impacts are quite
specific to tourist activities.
Aesthetic pollution
Tourism frequently fails to combine its
constructions with the local natural
characteristics and architectural styles. Huge
resorts with wildly different designs could
conflict with the local structural style and
seem out of place in a natural setting.
Several locations lack land-use planning and
construction laws, which has allowed for
huge settlements along coasts, valleys, and
picturesque roads. The sprawl encompasses
both the actual tourism facilities and
auxiliary structures including parking, service
areas, roadways, and employee housing.
Sewage pollution
Increasing sewage contamination is
frequently a side effect of building
hotels, recreational facilities, and other
buildings. Around tourist destinations,
wastewater pollutes the lakes and
oceans, harming the flora and animals.
Because sewage runoff is rich in
nutrients and encourages the growth of
algae, which covers filter-feeding corals
and reduces their capacity to live, it
seriously harms coral reefs. Salinity and
transparency changes can have a
significant influence on coastal habitats.
Moreover, sewage contamination poses
a risk to both human and animal health.
Climate change
Climate change and global tourism are strongly
related. Over 50% of traffic movements are attributed
to tourism, which entails people traveling from their
homes to different locations; fast growing aviation
traffic is responsible for 2.5% of CO output. As a
result, tourism significantly contributes to the
atmosphere's rising 2 greenhouse gas concentrations.
The greenhouse impact is mostly attributed to air
travel itself. The fastest-growing source of greenhouse
gas emissions comes from passenger aircraft. If no
action is done to cut emissions, the number of foreign
travelers, which increased from 594 million in 1996 to
1.6 billion by 2020, would further exacerbate the
issue.
HOW CAN WE PREVENT
TOURISM POLLUTION
As we travel in foreign countries for our enjoyment,
we should be careful to not disturb or destroy the
local environment we visit. Some forms of
preventing the types of pollution instigated by
tourism can be:
• To use public transportation, go by foot or use a
bike for visiting.
• To not use loud devices that may disturb the local
animals or communities in the area.
• To not be disrespectful to the environment you are
visiting by throwing trash, endangering the animals
that live there or to intoxicate
• To not pollute the waters in the place you are
visiting by infesting them with dangerous liquids
THANKS FOR YOUR
ATTENTION!