There are both positive and negative impacts resulting from tourism environment. Actually environment is the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity. The following discussion will firstly discuss positive environmental impact of tourism, secondly discuss the negative environmental impact in tourism.
Positive impacts from tourism. Tourism has potential to create beneficial effect on environment by contributing to environmental protection and conservation. It is the way to raise awareness of environmental values and it can serve as a tool to finance protection of natural areas and increasing their economic importance. Tourism is one of the most important industries and has developed always. For example South Africa is visited by more people which are interested in exploring new destination and cultures as distant. Therefore, areas having special natural resources attract more visitors, especially if they offer the opportunity to know very well about nature, that result increasingly on job, economy and foreign currency for those international tourists who visit for purpose of nature.
Negative impacts from tourism, occur when the level of visitor use greater that the environment’s ability to cope with this use within the acceptable limits of change. Uncontrolled conventional tourism carriages potential threats too many natural areas around the world. It can put massive pressure on an area and lead to impacts such