TRADITIONAL TOURISM BRINGS NO ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS

FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES.

Negative impacts from tourism occur when the level of visitor use is greater than
the environment's ability to cope with this use within the acceptable limits of
change. Uncontrolled conventional tourism poses potential threats to many natural
areas around the world. It can put enormous pressure on an area and lead to
impacts such as soil erosion, increased pollution, discharges into the sea, natural
habitat loss, increased pressure on endangered species and heightened
vulnerability to forest fires. It often puts a strain on water resources, and it can force
local populations to compete for the use of critical resources
Water, and especially fresh water, is one of the most critical natural resources. The
tourism industry generally overuses water resources for hotels, swimming pools,
golf courses and personal use of water by tourists. This can result in water
shortages and degradation of water supplies, as well as generating a greater
volume of waste water
Tourism can create great pressure on local resources like energy, food, and other
raw materials that may already be in short supply. Greater extraction and transport
of these resources exacerbates the physical impacts associated with their
exploitation. Because of the seasonal character of the industry, many destinations
have ten times more inhabitants in the high season as in the low season
Tourism can cause the same forms of pollution as any other industry: air emissions,
noise, solid waste and littering, releases of sewage, oil and chemicals, even
architectural/visual pollution.
MEDICAL TOURISM IS BENEFICIAL BOTH FOR THE PATIENT AND THE HOST
COUNTRY.
Medical tourism involves patients intentionally leaving their home country to access
non-emergency health care services abroad. Growth in the popularity of this
practice has resulted in a significant amount of attention being given to it from
researchers, policy-makers, and the media. Yet, there has been little effort to
systematically synthesize what is known about the effects of this phenomenon. This
article presents the findings of a scoping review examining what is known about the
effects of medical tourism in destination and departure countries.
The large majority of the 203 sources accepted into the review offer a perspective
of medical tourism from the Global North, focusing on the flow of patients from high
income nations to lower and middle income countries. This greatly shapes any
discussion of the effects of medical tourism on destination and departure countries.
Five interrelated themes that characterize existing discussion of the effects of this
practice were extracted from the reviewed sources. These themes frame medical
tourism as a: (1) user of public resources; (2) solution to health system problems;
(3) revenue generating industry; (4) standard of care; and (5) source of inequity. It is
observed that what is currently known about the effects of medical tourism is
minimal, unreliable, geographically restricted and mostly based on speculation.
Conclusions
Given its positive and negative effects on the health care systems of departure and
destination countries, medical tourism is a highly significant and contested

phenomenon. This is especially true given its potential to serve as a powerful force
for the inequitable delivery of health care services globally. It is recommended that
empirical evidence and other data associated with medical tourism be subjected to
clear and coherent definitions, including reports focused on the flows of medical
tourists and surgery success rates. Additional primary research on the effects of
medical tourism is needed if the industry is to develop in a manner that is beneficial
to citizens of both departure and destination countries.
POSITIVE SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPACT OF TOURISM HAS GREATER EFFECT
THAN THE NEGATIVE ONES.
Tourism can cause change or loss of local identity and values, brought about by
several closely related influences:
Destinations risk standardization in the process of satisfying tourists' desires for
familiar facilities. While landscape, accommodation, food and drinks, etc., must
meet the tourists' desire for the new and unfamiliar, they must at the same time not
be too new or strange because few tourists are actually looking for completely new
things. Tourists often look for recognizable facilities in an unfamiliar environment,
like well-known fast-food restaurants and hotel chains.
Adapting cultural expressions and manifestations to the tastes of tourists or even
performing shows as if they were "real life" constitutes "staged authenticity". As
long as tourists just want a glimpse of the local atmosphere, a quick glance at local
life, without any knowledge or even interest, staging will be inevitable.
Because tourism involves movement of people to different geographical locations,
and establishment of social relations between people who would otherwise not
meet, cultural clashes can take place as a result of differences in cultures, ethnic
and religious groups, values and lifestyles, languages, and levels of prosperity.
The result can be an overexploitation of the social carrying capacity (limits of
acceptable change in the social system inside or around the destination) and
cultural carrying capacity (limits of acceptable change in the culture of the host
population) of the local community.
The attitude of local residents towards tourism development may unfold through the
stages of euphoria, where visitors are very welcome, through apathy, irritation and
potentially antagonism, when anti-tourist attitudes begin growing among local
people.
Economic inequality Many tourists come from societies with different consumption
patterns and lifestyles than what is current at the destination, seeking pleasure,
spending large amounts of money and sometimes behaving in ways that even they
would not accept at home. One effect is that local people that come in contact with
these tourists may develop a sort of copying behavior, as they want to live and
behave in the same way. Especially in less developed countries, there is likely to be
a growing distinction between the 'haves' and 'have-nots', which may increase
social and sometimes ethnic tensions
Irritation due to tourist behavior
Tourists often, out of ignorance or carelessness, fail to respect local customs and
moral values. When they do, they can bring about irritation and stereotyping. They
take a quick snapshot and are gone, and by so acting invade the local peoples'
lives.
DARK TOURISM CAPITALIZES ON TRAGEDY BY APPEALING TO HUMAN
MORBID CURIOSITY.

dark tourism serves as tool of education, a method of honoring victims of tragedy,

and as a medium to contemplate mortality, others argue that dark tourism is
exploitative of tragedy and serves primarily as a source of entertainment for
tourists. argues that dark tourism has evolved to take on the function of mortality
contemplation as well as a tool for peace and prevention. tourism has been
increasingly affected by commercialization, he disagrees with the effect it has on
the industry. Blommer claims that ultimately, dark tourism sites became more
commercialized in order to effectively convey their message to a large audience.
argues that the U.S. Holocaust Museum is a positive form of dark tourism because it
provides a place to remember the past and educate future generations. The exhibits
are presented in context, allowing the visitor to emotionally connect with the time
period and analyze what should have been done to prevent such an atrocity. dark
tourism has become a source of entertainment rather than of education, although
unlike Bowe, Vitalo comes to this conclusion by looking through the lens of media.
Its primary focus is the film, Titanic, although it also explores photojournalism and
literature.
Food industries should display information about food waste on their
products
Between 1.3mt and 2.6mt of food is wasted every year because the product life has
expired. Households waste food because it has not been used in time. Retailers
dont sell food that has exceeded its use-by date.
Some 250,000 tonnes of food waste can be prevented by a one-day increase in
product life. This includes food wasted by households and by the supply chain.
By preventing this volume of waste, UK shoppers look at a potential shared saving
of up to 500 million. The direct business benefit to retailers is approaching 100
million in waste prevention alone: with increased sales through improved on-shelf
availability another benefit retailers may enjoy
A one-day increase in product life is practical for a range of every day products in
typical shopping baskets.
Governments should not have unrestricted access to private and classified
information of people and other entities
The Hijab restricts women's freedom as members of a society
Hijab is an Islamic concept of modesty and privacy. This concept is not unique to
Islam, but embraced by other religions, such as Judaism (where the concept of
modesty is called Tzuniut) and Christianity. The Islamic concept of hijab is most
often expressed in womens clothing. Hijab garments range from simple head
scarves (called khimaar or simply hijab) to head-to-toe cloaks such as abayas and
burqas.
Although firmly rooted in Islamic tradition, hijab is not strictly defined in the Muslim
holy book, the Quran. It is often a personal and cultural concept, not a religious one.
Expression of hijab varies within the Muslim world and beyond.
Public expression of hijab is a very controversial issue. It is, first and foremost, an
act of worship among Muslim women. In the United States, wearing hijab clothing is
a right guaranteed by the First Amendmentas freedom of speech and freedom of
religion. However, hijab clothing has also become a potent indicator of identity, with
many non-Muslims viewing it as a political statement. Some communities interpret
hijab as a sign of Islamic fundamentalism, the refusal of immigrants to integrate
into mainstream society, or the oppression of women.

European countries should accept all migrants as refugees.