SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

Sustainable Tourism

Abstract

Sustainable tourism or sustainable tourism is a form of tourism that follows the principles of sustainability. Sustainable tourism in its purest sense, is an industry committed to making a low impact on the environment and local culture, while helping to generate income and employment for local people. Therefore, I set the aim of this paper to identify strategies of benefiting the destination sites from sustainable tourism.

Sustainable Tourism

Introduction

Interestingly, one of the factors favoring the development of tourism in an area, the landscape tends to be particularly fragile in its development. We already saw the arrival of tourists tend to change the use of natural resources. But beyond that, often tends to over-exploited.

Mass tourism has been particularly violent environment: urbanization of natural areas or integrated into the landscape, overuse of water resources, problems related to the treatment of waste, water pollution from liquid waste, destruction of historical monuments, air pollution from the use of vehicles and heating, changes in the landscape to promote leisure activities like golf or skiing, etc. These processes are more incisive in the developing countries where environmental regulations are often more lenient to promote the tourism industry and natural resources are easy prey to speculation. As an example we can point to the ecological crisis that is hurting the coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico, because of the excessive development of tourist resorts like Cancun or Cozumel.

But not only mass tourism affects the environment. Alternative forms of tourism can also make non-sustainable use of resources. Under the concept "alternative tourism" are grouped various forms of tourism that, sometimes, looking for a sustainable development activity, but some only express opposition to mass tourism. However, if only because it is small-scale tourism, alternative forms of tourism tend to involve much less disruption in the landscape.

By contrast there are times when the landscape is the main tourist value, public institutions fall short of establishing extreme conservation rules, to the point of impeding the normal development of traditional activities and without understanding that man has a role in ecosystem.

Guyana, located on the north eastern shoulder of South America, bordered by Venezuela to its west and Suriname (Dutch Guiana) to the east, Brazil in the south - South-westerly region on the Atlantic Ocean to the north, it is the only English speaking nation in South America. Guyana is also part of the Amazon rainforest system and is one of eight countries that make up the Organisation of Amazon Cooperation Treaty. It is found in the Guiana Shield and occupies 8.7 per cent of its total land mass of 2.5?M?km2. The Amazon rainforest accounts for almost 80 per cent of the country and is home to most of the indigenous communities. Sustainable development may be a fairly new concept but for the inhabitants of the Guyana rainforest it is a way of life. They have lived all their lives promoting the principles of sustainable development because their livelihoods depend on the forests. Hence, it is no surprise that any form of sustainable tourism would ...