With the number of international tourist arrivals now surpassing over 800 million people per annum and expected to reach over 1600 million by 2020, tourism has consequences for the natural environments and communities it comes into contact with. This book reflects changes in the relationship between tourism, society and the natural environment in the first decade of the new century. Alongside the updating of all statistics, environmental policy initiatives, examples and case studies new material has been added. This book is divided in four major sections which focus on different aspect of Environmental Impacts of Tourism. The first section deals the tourism and its impact on global and regional environment. The next section goes straight to the Tourism and its Impact on Natural Resources Issues. The third section reviews the Tourism and its Impact on Threats to Specific Resources. The fourth and the last section deals the Tourism and its Impact on Economy, Inland areas, Historic and Cultural Resources. The book is original in taking a holistic view of the tourism system and how it interacts with the natural environment, illustrating the positive and negative effects of this relationship, and importantly how tourism can be planned and managed to encourage natural resource conservation and aid human development. The book will give you the real picture of what’s happening in around the world with regard to tourism and environment. The present book is an attempt towards enlighting and awaking students and general readers to understand the complexities of our environment and spread the message as to what we should do and what we should not do to protect our planet earth. It is amazing as to how concerned citizens can effect the changes. It will be useful to policy makers, environmentalists, NGOs, the tourism industry, research scholars and students in the field of environmental valuation, tourism management, and all those interested in the related study.

• Management > Tourism
• Geography > Geography