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Preface……………………………………………………………………………………………………3
Table of contents…………………………………………………………………………………….4
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………5
1. Environmental impacts……………………………………………………………….5 2.1 Visiting unique places and its impact………………………………….……..6 2.2 Destruction of local resources……………………………………………………6 2.3 Disruption of wildlife………………………………………………………………….6 2.4 En-route environmental impacts………………………………………………..7 2. Socio-cultural impacts………………………………………………………………..7 3.5 Civilization…………………………………………………………………………………7 3.6 Cultural merchandizing……………………………………………………………..8 3.7 Delinquency………………………………………………………………………………..8 3. Economic impacts………………………………………………………………………9 4.8 Money leakage……………………………………………………………………………9 4.9 Inflation……………………………………………………………………………………..10 4.10 Other economic impacts…………………………………………………………….10 4 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………11 5 References/ Bibliography…………………………………………………………….11

Eco-tourism cannot be sustained.

Introduction

Ecotourism, as a recent trend that lacks precise definitions and researches, has been welcomed without judging it by many of its fans. Sustainable tourism it is said to be one of the fastest growing subsectors of the tourism industry with an estimated worldwide annual increase of 10-15 %. On the other hand careful observations have revealed that ecotourism might not be as beneficial as its supporters appear to believe. It is perhaps astonishing that those who strongly believe in ecological trends appear to have overlooked that the word ecotourism is linking the word –eco with the word –tourism. It seems that they are forgetting all the negative impacts that tourism has brought to many countries. For example south Africa one