Environmental Impacts of Tourism

Environmental Impacts of Tourism
Tourism has many negative effects on our environment. On other side, tourism has the potential to take part in the environmental protection and conversation. Uncontrolled tourism is a threat to many natural areas around the world.
The tourism industry overuses water resources for hotels, swimming pools and personal use of water by tourists. This can result in water shortage.
Tourism is also a threat to land resources include minerals, forests, fertile soils and wildlife. Tourism can cause the same forms of pollution as any other industry: air emissions, noise, solid waste, releases of sewage, oil and chemicals, even architectural pollution. For example sewage polution can threaten the coral reefs and even the health of humans and animals.
Tourism cause the degradation of attractive historical and cultural sites and ecosystems such as sandy beaches, lakes, riversides and mountains. Tourism reduces the biological diversity at the global level, takes part in the depletion of the ozone layer and climate changes. Tourism industry can contribute to environmental protection through: Financial contributions and alternative ecotourism.
The effects of tourism since the 1960s have been incredible. For example because of tourism Mediterranean is the dirtiest sea in the world . . .