Bicycle Tourism and Pollution

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Bicycle Tourism and Pollution
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The paper comprises three components. It starts with an introduction where the bicycle tourism is introduced with focus on its interaction with pollution. It is followed by the historical context of the issue that ultimately segues into a comprehensive review of the literature encompassing the discussion with reference to key theories and empirical evidence surrounding the bicycle tourism and pollution.
Introduction
Cycling and bicycle tourism is a controversial topic regarding its various benefits, particularly environmental. When global industrialization has marked the transport sector as the second biggest energy consumer in the current era, cycling emerges as a unique solution to scholars and debaters. They do neither omit any gas, nor produce disturbing noise. Another group of scholars opines that cycling is good for health as it decreases air and noise pollution and discourages inactivity experienced by car-dependent urbanization (Pucher and Buehler 391). Contrary to this, there are controversies concerning weather as a challenge for city planners to initiate cycle tourism. While looking at all the arguments, a question becomes important; when vehicles are constantly polluting air through fossil fuel and noise, should we consider other options? Rather than being in the “moving box” and adopting isolation from nature, people should encourage bicycle tourism as a more environmentally friendly, healthier, and sounder alternate cycling, which can also slow down people’s lifestyles, positively impacting their psyche.
Historical Context
In the first half of the twentieth century, cycling was a common habit on the roads. However, the advent of motors minimized the trend, filing it as slow, inconvenient, and rural means of transport. With the passage of time and prominent disadvantages of motors like pollution, cycling caught the attention of social scientists, urban policymakers, public health sectors, and cycling activists. They highlighted cycling tourism's value as inexpensive, light, silent, hygienic, healthy, sound, and democratic personal transport. They also credited it to be a faster means of moving than cars in industrialized cities, where traffic-jam is an everyday practice (Oosterhuis 234). From that age to the present time, when the world has gone globally urbanized, cycling seems to be the ultimate solution to reduce pollution by transport reforms. For this purpose, I have researched by reading a host of scholarly articles with different arguments about the need, merits, demerits, and possibilities of cycling tourism in today’s contaminated atmosphere.
Literature Review
Osterhuis credits cycling as a faster means is surprising, yet his pointing out the traffic-jam on overcrowded roads makes the point clearer and comprehensible. The second selection of scholarly articles is by Nilsson, who gives the example of the world’s most popular city for cycling, Copenhagen. He presents his model city with its essential infrastructure and other elementary approaches to reform mobility culture. Besides, Pineheiro gives us another city resembling Copenhagen in the cultural context and demanding pollution solution for its industrialized growth. Macao represents the challenging situation faced by urbanized parts of the world, where mobility culture has become the second most significant threat to the rise in pollution leading to health issues.Moreover, Adila and Jiang promote the idea of electric vehicles to control pollution on roads with a less impactful strategy than bicycle tourism. Mizdrak comes up with the idea of New Zealand's long-term healthcare cost to point out the need for consideration of mobility culture reform. Furthermore, An places weather in front of us to build a resourceful approach to cycle tourism. After all, Subramani highlights a less noticeable issue, noise pollution raised by today’s heavy traffic. All in all, all debate around the health problems generated by traffic and suggestions to control them with critically formidable forces like the weather. They provide vast details to empower me to sustain and defend the argument of cycle tourism promotion to control pollution and health problems worldwide.
Copenhagen is the most famous city for bicycle tourism. Nilsson, in his article ‘Urban Bicycle Tourism: Path Dependencies and Innovation in Greater Copenhagen’ discusses the renaissance of cycling in industrialized cities of Western Europe. He encourages bicycle tourism as sustainable by referring to the benefits of enhanced infrastructure and services for cyclists. In this context, Nilsson gives Greater Copenhagen Region the example of the world’s top city for bicycling on the roads (Nilsson 1651). It is an urbanized city with a prominent importance of bicycles as local and personal transport. No other cities,exceptthe Netherlands have market shares for cycling like Copenhagen (Nilsson 1654). Nilsson analyze the dynamics behind bicycle mobility in these regions, granting us insight into urban policymaking, bicycle tourism facilities, communication, and commute organization.
Moreover, all these factors include incremental revolution examples, such as making cycling an urban icon by building bicycle hotels or advertising with bicycle pictures. All these practices lead to establishing bicycle tourism in industrialized cities. Nilsson uses the term ‘network innovation’ for this (Nilsson 1657). Although he points out the connection between cycling, personal and traveler, and place making, he leaves the complexity for further social investigation.
To discuss the ecology-oriented impact of cycling in Copenhagen, Nilsson refers to its greenery and eco-friendly environment where you can ride a bicycle and go to work or swimming while eating organic meals enjoying nature through ‘network innovation’ in this region (Nilsson 1662). Nevertheless, the author does not forget to show the obstacle faced in connected bicycle tourism with public transport as the passengers need to change their vehicle if they ride their cycle for a faraway destination. He encourages the idea of highroads in this regard. With highway construction specified for biking, the travelers will ride their bikes safer and more conveniently (Nilsson 1662). Nilsson shows how infrastructure, culture, weather, and innovations lead to contribute well-established bicycle tourism in the model, Copenhagen. However, he considers the limits of linking bicycling to public transport, his idea on bicycle highways is compensating as the bicyclers will not need to change the transport following that idea.
Macao is an example of the cities with high threats of pollution due to tourism and in need of a solution. Pineheiro, in his article Redesigning historic cities facing rapid tourism growth: The case of Macao’s World Heritage center and San Ma Lou Avenue,” leads us to a city where tourism has raised pollution risks and describes the need to minimize this risk by developing a new environmental friendly strategy like innovation in mobility culture. His example model is Macao, which attracts many tourists across the globe, resulting in a pollution threat. Pineheiro reveals the city's history to demonstrate its popularity around the world as a popular casino point. Furthermore, he explains that the citizens are unprotected by the environmental challenges like contaminated air and water subsequent by the significant tourism in the city. Macao has great traffic mobility resulting in significant vehicle emissions impacting the air quality. The atmosphere abounds with contamination emitting from an uncontrollable sea of vehicles in the city.
Consequently, the Macao citizens are compelled to breathe this contamination into their lungs, affecting their health and raising diseases. Hence, it has become essential for the city to design strategies to control air pollution caused by the traffic's carbon emissions to improve public health (Pineheiro 278).Pineheiro is aware of the city's historical vitality and the impossibility of more extensive space for improved transportation due to historical buildings in abundance. Therefore, he comes up with that cycling is the ultimate and sound solution to maintain tourism, safe the historical buildings, and lower the risk of pollution (Pineheiro 278). To support his argument, Pinheiro takes the example of Copenhagen, which is the world’s most well-known city for bicycle tourism. He makes the reader realize that bicycle tourism is possible to launch in a historically and culturally rich city like Copenhagen. That is why the development of a similar mobility culture in Macao is not an impractical outlook. Macao, likewise Copenhagen, can accommodate cycling on roads with better infrastructure and tourism facilities as a part of the innovation strategy for the city. Thereby, the municipalities can decrease the risk of air contamination to a great extent (Pineheiro 279). However, Pinheiro's philosophical suggestion can bring considerable ecological refinement by decreasing air pollution, noise pollution, and air pollution resulting in water pollution.
Another potential solution to tourism pollution is electric vehicles, which is put against the other possibilities in this regard like cycle tourism. Adila and Jiang, in their article“Synergy and Co-Benefits of Reducing CO2 and Air
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