tailieunhanh - Lecture Tourism: Principles, practices, philosophies (12th edition): Chapter 17 - Charles R. Goeldner, J. R. Brent Ritchie

Chapter 17 - Tourism and the environment. After completing this unit, you should be able to: Understand fundamental nature of sustainable development and sustainable tourism, identify guiding principles for achieving sustainable tourism, review policy aims of an agenda for sustainable tourism, examine major challenges facing achievement of sustainable tourism,. | Tourism and the Environment 17 LEARNING OBJECTIVES Understand fundamental nature of sustainable development and sustainable tourism. Identify guiding principles for achieving sustainable tourism. Review policy aims of an agenda for sustainable tourism. Examine major challenges facing achievement of sustainable tourism. Identify new realities of tourism in era of global climate change. Examine policies and measures to mitigate tourism-induced climate change. Examine concept of ecotourism and its role in sustainable tourism. WTTC KEY ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Global warming Depletion of the ozone layer Acid rain Depletion and pollution of water resources Depletion and pollution of land resources WTTC IMPLICATIONS OF RESOURCE DEPLETION Political instability or increased competition for land could lead to loss of potential new tourism destinations and degradation of existing destinations Loss of landscape and wildlife could cause decrease in customer satisfaction with tourism products and . | Tourism and the Environment 17 LEARNING OBJECTIVES Understand fundamental nature of sustainable development and sustainable tourism. Identify guiding principles for achieving sustainable tourism. Review policy aims of an agenda for sustainable tourism. Examine major challenges facing achievement of sustainable tourism. Identify new realities of tourism in era of global climate change. Examine policies and measures to mitigate tourism-induced climate change. Examine concept of ecotourism and its role in sustainable tourism. WTTC KEY ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Global warming Depletion of the ozone layer Acid rain Depletion and pollution of water resources Depletion and pollution of land resources WTTC IMPLICATIONS OF RESOURCE DEPLETION Political instability or increased competition for land could lead to loss of potential new tourism destinations and degradation of existing destinations Loss of landscape and wildlife could cause decrease in customer satisfaction with tourism products and lower propensity to travel to some destinations Higher fuel prices could lead to operational price increases and corresponding decreases in number of travelers in this “price-sensitive market” ELEMENTS OF THE WTTC VISION OF TRAVEL & TOURISM AND THE ENVIRONMENT Travel & Tourism is integral aspect of modern societies. Global awareness of environmental damage is developing rapidly. The resources of world’s largest industry can and must be harnessed to achieve environmental goals. The industry has potential to influence billions of customers per year and use its leverage to achieve beneficial environmental effects. The customer challenge will exert a growing pressure to achieve environmental improvements. Environmental lobbies will add pressure to develop good environmental practice. Self-regulation must be developed rapidly and effectively and used to influence development of appropriate and workable regulations. Corporate environmental mission statements are a vital first step toward .

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