The long-term sustainability of tourism rests on the ability of community leaders and
tourism professionals to maximize its benefits and minimize its costs.
This fact sheet tabulates 87 tourism impacts within seven categories
and divides the sources of tourism impacts into tourist-based
causes and destination-based causes. This information, which
was distilled from recent tourism research, provides a
framework for discussions, directions, and development
regarding tourism. Formally addressing the impacts of
tourism facilitates planning that helps a community
create a sustainable tourism industry.