Environmental Impacts of Tourism

Environmental Impacts of Tourism (Report). United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 2001.

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Abstract: A reference document published by the United Nations Environment Programme outlining the environmental impacts of tourism development; identifies three major impact categories including depletion of natural resources, pollution, and physical ecosystem degradation; describes specific effects such as water overuse for hotels and golf courses, habitat destruction from resort construction, coral reef damage from coastal development and marine tourism, and increased waste generation including sewage and solid waste; also discusses potential positive contributions of tourism through conservation funding and environmental awareness. This document provides a general environmental framework frequently invoked in critiques of large-scale tourism projects such as the ETG proposal in Yap State; it supplies the analytical basis for arguments regarding ecological risk, resource depletion, and sustainability concerns.