Environmental impact of tourism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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00:01:40 1 Environmental impacts
00:02:52 1.1 Facility impacts
00:04:23 1.2 Tourist activities
00:12:37 1.3 Transit effects
00:15:53 2 Sociocultural impacts of tourism
00:16:42 2.1 Commodification of culture
00:18:48 2.2 Demonstration effect
00:19:45 2.2.1 bCriticisms of the demonstration effect/b
00:20:44 2.3 Community participation
00:22:02 2.4 Acculturation
00:23:34 2.5 Positive socio-cultural impacts
00:25:37 2.6 Negative sociocultural impacts
00:27:43 3 Economic impacts
00:30:48 3.1 Positive and negative economic impacts of tourism
00:34:44 3.2 Employment
00:35:43 3.3 Tourism Satellite Account (TSA)
00:38:41 3.4 Projections for 2020
00:40:23 4 See also



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The study of the effect that tourism has on environment and communities involved has been part off the tourism discourse since the 1970s, but has garnered much greater attention in recent years due to debates on overtourism. Impacts are not easily categorized, having direct and indirect components. Also tourism is often seasonal, and impacts only become apparent after time, with varying effects, and at different stages of development. There are three main categories.

1. Environmental impacts: impacts that affect the carrying capacity of the area, vegetation, air quality, bodies of water, the water table, wildlife, and natural phenomena.
2. Sociocultural impacts: associated with interactions between people and culture background, attitudes and behaviors, and their relationships to material goods.  The introduction of tourists to sensitive areas can be detrimental, cause a loss of culture, or, alternatively, contribute to the preservation of culture and cultural sites through increased resources.
3. Economic impacts: usually seen as positive, contributing to employment, better services, and social stability. Also it may improve in terms of cultural education which one may have not considered. Yet these impacts can also contribute to high living costs within the community, pushing local business out of the areas, and raising costs for locals