Protecting Eden: Setting Green Standards for Tourism Industries

Protecting Eden: Setting Green Standards for Tourism Industries
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The article talks about the complexity of tourism. According to Martha Hone, tourism can be a powerful economic driver at the same time the main cause of environment damage, social disruption, and loss of cultural heritage. Looking at the positive side of tourism, the author emphasizes on the job creation and revenue collection by the national government as some of the key benefits of tourism. The negative side of tourism includes privatization of attractive location and resources, and air and water pollutions.
Even though travel and tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, employing over 200million people, coming up with sustainable tourism strategies is the biggest challenge. The dilemma facing many countries is how to determine what qualifies as ecotourism. Many reports present how ecotourism sites are mismanaged. There are numerous evidences being presented on how ecotourism principles have been corrupted ...