Positive Economic Impacts of Tourism Sector on the Environment
The impacts of tourism refer to the interaction of a tourists with a different type of place and environment than the one found at their home, they can be either economic, social, cultural and environmental. The relationship with the tourism and environment is held to be either positive and negative. According to Andrew Holden (2016), the tourism system has some important inputs from an environmental perspective which includes natural, cultural and human resources. The system has three subsystems which as tourism retailing, destination and transport, all of which are interrelated. Within the destination subsystem, the importance of natural and cultural attractions is emphasized as
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This has created employment for locals because of the increase in environmental awareness in Jamaica (Inskeep, 1991).
Air travel is one of the most commonly used transportation by tourist to move from one country to another. It provides economic benefits to a country. “Air travel is energy efficient and accounts only for marginal emissions of carbon dioxide; air travel is economically and socially too important to be restricted and the fuel use is constantly minimized and new technology will solve the problem.” (Gossling and Peeters, 2007).
Wensheng (2009) conducted a study that looks at a new strategy to lower carbon usage in tourism which can reduce negative impacts on the environment. He stated that “low-carbon tourism is a low-carbon economy in the background of a new form of tourism; it is the objective of sustainable development of tourism. The initial low-carbon and ow-carbon economy is a means for domestic tourist attractions to promote the concept of low-carbon tourism. This can develop the practice of low-carbon travel behaviour, to lay a good foundation for the creation of low-carbon