The third category is an environmental of tourism on the impacts. tourism has the potential to create beneficial effects on the environment by contributing to environmental protection and conservation. It is a way to raise awareness of environmental values and it can serve as a tool to finance protection of natural areas and increase their economic importance. The positive impacts of tourism on the environment.
The negative impacts of tourism on the environment.Many of the negative impacts from tourism occur when the amount of visitors is greater than the environment's ability to cope with the visitor volume.Some of the consequences of exceeding the environmental capacity include strain on already scarce resources such as water, energy, food and natural habitat areas. In addition, unchecked tourism development may lead to soil erosion, increased pollution and waste, discharges into the sea and waterways, increased pressure on endangered species of animals and plants, and heightened vulnerability to deforestation, as well as loss of biodiversity.