Straight Talk by Nimfa L. Estrellado According to Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III tourism is a priority development area...
Straight Talk
by Nimfa L. Estrellado
According to Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III tourism is a priority development area that deserves greater attention. Focus now should not be on how much money it can contribute to government coffers but rather on how it can improve the overall well-being of people.
Pimentel added that he supports the policy of the Department of Tourism not to raise tourist arrival targets until there is sufficient infrastructure to support more visitors.
But Pimentel cautioned, “We do need the tourist dollars, but not at the expense of a polluted environment, denuded forests, or displaced indigenous groups.”
For Pimentel, “Tourism is a vehicle for poverty reduction, a tool for environmental conservation, an impulse for cultural heritage preservation, and an avenue for strengthening people to people relationships.”
Pimentel called for a healthy balance between tourism and the broader social and environmental context.
What is sustainable tourism?
According to wikipedia Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make only a positive impact on the environment, society and economy.Tourism can involve primary transportation to the general location, local transportation, accommodations, entertainment, recreation, nourishment and shopping. It can be related to travel for leisure, business and what is called VFR (visiting friends and relatives). There is now broad consensus that tourism development should be sustainable; however, the question of how to achieve this remains an object of debate.
Without travel there is no tourism, without tourism the area wouldn’t have much income so the idea of supportable tourism is firmly connected to an idea of practical versatility.
The town wouldn’t have possessed the capacity to bolster such an enormous relaxation without tourist income and tourist use of the facility.
Recreational activities and tourism majorly affect the economies of nations and local areas. Looking on the positive side, the income generated by overseas visitor pays for new attractions. At a more local level, the money coming in from leisure and tourism activities creates jobs and wages for local people. If leisure and tourism industry can have some positive effects on the local economy there are some negative effects too.
Negative effects from tourism happen when the level of visitor utilize is greater than the environment’s ability to cope with this use within the adequate furthest reaches of progress.
Tourism represents a risk to an areas’s natural and cultural resources, such as water supply, beaches, coral reefs and heritage sites, through overuse. It additionally expanded increased pollution through traffic emissions, littering, increased sewage production and noise.
Why tourists ruin places they visit and what they can do? Be a responsible traveller. Take care of the environment as you would your own home.
Nevertheless it is about respecting and benefiting the environment and the people required during travelling. However much of the time travelling in a more responsible way and mindful manner also results in more fun and more adventures for the tourists too.
Responsible tourism is for you, in the event you travel to learn about the world, to discover hidden places or to spend time with the locals or you care about the environment and want the people living in your chosen destination to benefit more from your visit. Basically, responsible tourism depends on the idea of sustainability, and both have an identical goal of sustainable development.
‘Happy land, happy feet, maybe a cheesy t-shirt phrase but it’s also the truth when it comes to travel. The standards of responsible tourism and are doing their most extreme to limit negative environmental, social or cultural impacts, respect human rights and support the local economy in countries where they bring tourists.
Pimentel added that he supports the policy of the Department of Tourism not to raise tourist arrival targets until there is sufficient infrastructure to support more visitors.
But Pimentel cautioned, “We do need the tourist dollars, but not at the expense of a polluted environment, denuded forests, or displaced indigenous groups.”
For Pimentel, “Tourism is a vehicle for poverty reduction, a tool for environmental conservation, an impulse for cultural heritage preservation, and an avenue for strengthening people to people relationships.”
Pimentel called for a healthy balance between tourism and the broader social and environmental context.
What is sustainable tourism?
According to wikipedia Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make only a positive impact on the environment, society and economy.Tourism can involve primary transportation to the general location, local transportation, accommodations, entertainment, recreation, nourishment and shopping. It can be related to travel for leisure, business and what is called VFR (visiting friends and relatives). There is now broad consensus that tourism development should be sustainable; however, the question of how to achieve this remains an object of debate.
Without travel there is no tourism, without tourism the area wouldn’t have much income so the idea of supportable tourism is firmly connected to an idea of practical versatility.
The town wouldn’t have possessed the capacity to bolster such an enormous relaxation without tourist income and tourist use of the facility.
Recreational activities and tourism majorly affect the economies of nations and local areas. Looking on the positive side, the income generated by overseas visitor pays for new attractions. At a more local level, the money coming in from leisure and tourism activities creates jobs and wages for local people. If leisure and tourism industry can have some positive effects on the local economy there are some negative effects too.
Negative effects from tourism happen when the level of visitor utilize is greater than the environment’s ability to cope with this use within the adequate furthest reaches of progress.
Tourism represents a risk to an areas’s natural and cultural resources, such as water supply, beaches, coral reefs and heritage sites, through overuse. It additionally expanded increased pollution through traffic emissions, littering, increased sewage production and noise.
Why tourists ruin places they visit and what they can do? Be a responsible traveller. Take care of the environment as you would your own home.
Nevertheless it is about respecting and benefiting the environment and the people required during travelling. However much of the time travelling in a more responsible way and mindful manner also results in more fun and more adventures for the tourists too.
Responsible tourism is for you, in the event you travel to learn about the world, to discover hidden places or to spend time with the locals or you care about the environment and want the people living in your chosen destination to benefit more from your visit. Basically, responsible tourism depends on the idea of sustainability, and both have an identical goal of sustainable development.
‘Happy land, happy feet, maybe a cheesy t-shirt phrase but it’s also the truth when it comes to travel. The standards of responsible tourism and are doing their most extreme to limit negative environmental, social or cultural impacts, respect human rights and support the local economy in countries where they bring tourists.
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