Social and Environmental Impacts

“It is a type of tourism that includes the current, future, that address the desires of the visitors, environment and hosting communities.”

Management practices and the guidelines to sustainable tourism development can applied to all forms of tourism which includes the destinations, many particular niche tourism segments and most importantly mass tourism.

The term sustainability refers to the economic, social, cultural, environmental aspect and also the balance between these three aspects to have long terms sustainability.

So the sustainable tourism should include the following aspects:

·         It should make a best use of the environmental resources that is important element in the tourism development industry. Along with this it should also maintain the essential natural processes and also helps in maintaining the natural legacy and biodiversity.

·         Sustainable tourism must ensure feasible, long term, and socio- economic provided to all the members fairly which in turn include long term employment, opportunities for earning incomes, social services provided to the resident communities and to reduce poverty.

·         This tourism helps to preserve the culture of the resident communities, their socio-cultural identity, legacy (heritage), traditional values and to contribute inter cultural tolerance.

All the participants must be involved and actively participate which is the requirement of the sustainable tourism development along with it also requires wide participation and the consensus building. It is a continuous process and requires continuous monitoring so that preventive/corrective measures can be taken whenever necessary.

It should maintain level of tourist satisfaction and should create awareness among the tourist regarding the sustainability practices involved in the tourism.

 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND ECO-TOURISM

According to various analysts and the industry it is said that eco-tourism is more toward environment conservation and also educating the visitor or tourist regarding the surrounding environment but sustainable tourism focuses more on the traveling which has less impact on the local communities and the ecological surroundings.

Eco-tourism is the type of tourism that can be taken similar to the vacation taken to the beaches, adventures etc. on the other hand sustainable tourism take into account all types of tourism.