IMPACTS OF TOURISM

The impacts basically involve the two aspects - the positive impacts or benefits and the negative impacts or costs. Impacts of tourism can be summed up in the following points:

• Economical Impacts
• Social Impacts
• Environmental Impacts 

Economical Impacts 

   Benefits

•  Regional Development
• Employment Generation in the tourism and resource management sector
• Income Generation
• Sources of Foreign Currency
• Tourism helps to diversify the local community
• Creates seasonal Employment
• Increased tax revenue from tourism
• Development of Secondary Industries

COSTS

•   Higher demand created by tourism may increase the price of land, housing, and commodities for daily life
• Demand on health service provision and police service can increase during the tourist  seasons at expense of the local tax base
• In equitable distribution of economic benefits among the local commodities
• Local inflation in price of local commodities.

Social Impacts

Benefits

• Cultural understanding
• Improving international understanding & botherhood
• Preservation of culture of the local community
• Tourism can enhance local cultural awareness
• Generate revenue for the preservation of archaeological & historical sites
• Quality life of locals through economic diversificationn

COSTS

•  Tourism can bring overcrowding & traffic congestion.
• Lack of proper planning and management of garbage, vandalism, prostitution, social crime etc.
• Community structure might be changed
• Illustrate effect - cultural illustration left by tourist imitated
• Cultural changes
• Can bring the changes in the local architecture of the village
• Xenophobia - Fear of stranger(like new disease in production)
• Authenticity of the social  and cultural environment can be changed to meet tourists demand
• New diseases might be introduced in the host community
• Rapid tourism growth may result in growing instability of local amenities & institutions to meet the tourism demand

Environmental Impact

Benefits

• Environment awarness
• Conservation & preservation of wild life and its habitat through the creation of national parks and wildlife reserves
• Enhances the nature based tourism through the conservation of flora and fauna
• Improved sanitation condition of the host village can be achivied
• Bio-diversity of the wild life and the vegetation will be preserved and maintained
• Proper waste management system can be enhanced
• Tourism can generate revenue for protected area management

Costs

• Environmental pollution
• Deforestation - soil erosion, landslide etc.
• Change in the behavior of wild life due to the impact of degradation on environment and their natural habitat 
• Problem in the waste disposal management system
• Pollution of water resources
• Negative changes int he physical integrity of the ares
• Degradation of parks as well as other natural attraction
• Littering in and around the trials