Chapter 6 An Introduction to Tourism Impacts
DOI: 10.23912/9781911396437-3648 | ISBN: 9781911396437 |
Published: November 2017 | Component type: chapter |
Published in: Geography of Tourism | Parent DOI: 10.23912/9781911396437-3402 |
Abstract
Tourism, as a significant form of human activity, can have major effects on people and places, and these effects are commonly referred to as tourism impacts. Tourism always takes place in a context, which we usually refer to, in a broad sense, as the environment. This environmental context is made up of both human and natural features. The human environment comprises economic, social and cultural factors and processes. The natural environment is a combination of inorganic components such as rocks and water, and inorganic processes such as the erosion of rocks, and with organic elements, which comprise plants and animals and organic processes such as those within an ecosystem.
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- Peter Mason, London South Bank University; Ecole Superieure Hotellerie (Author)
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Mason, P. (2017) "Chapter 6 An Introduction to Tourism Impacts" In: Mason, P. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911396437-3648
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