tourist the eco-devil?

[nicoli86]

With studies showing the fallowing copy paste, it has become much more important that we as tourist try our best to leave little trace. Even though in areas, we see rubbish flying about in Nica. No way should we drop not a gum wrapper to the ground.

300% is a large growth and huge impact to the land. Companies rush to develop hotels and resorts then sometimes don't put money into development of waste control. Lets remind ourselves to keep it as clean as we can.

Copy past from Newindpress....:

Is the tourist the eco-devil?

A new study says that a boom in world tourism is posing a huge threat to some of the planet’s most sensitive ecosystems. The study, by Conservation International (CI) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), said tourism rose by more than 100 percent between 1990 and 2000 in the world’s “biodiversity hotspots,” which include the tropical Andes and the Guinean forests of West Africa.

CI has identified 25 such areas, which contain 44 percent of all identified endemic plant species and 35 percent of all known endemic species of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. The hotspots cover only 1.4 percent of the planet’s land area and all been significantly altered by human activities. “In some places the growth (in tourism) has been staggering,” CI and UNEP said in a statement released at the fifth World Parks Congress in the South African port city of Durban.
“Over the past decade, tourism has increased by more than 200 percent in both Laos and Cambodia, nearly 500 percent in South Africa, (and) over 300 percent in the countries of Brazil, Nicaragua and El Salvador,” it said.

[SedzidgeTeege]

My opiñion is that tourism can help a country environment and it can also destroy it. Take in example brazils environment. Tourism grows every year in their country and with more people comes more business. Environmental Rainforests are being destroyed by their manufacturing of resorts. Soon they will have no rainforests and it will cause an global enviromental change. If we look at Costa Rica, we can see that tourism is helping not only the economy but its people. As the business continue to florish so is the laws of the government to maintain its enviroment secure. If we go to Costa Rica we can see what they are trying to do. Prevent the damage of rainforests, educating its people, economy is growing from eco oriented resorts, life is good in Costa Rica.

If we talk about waste control, it is the governments job to maintain that if not businesses will stop and so the country will remain a 3 world.