What are the adverse effects of tourism development on the environment

1, the impact on the surface and soil: with the development of tourism activities in various natural areas, both land and water surfaces may be affected by tourism activities, rocky shores, sandy beaches, wetlands, marshes, natural caves, soils and other different surface coverage may be subjected to different types of tourism impacts, in particular, the organic layer of the soil, on which the surface plants depend for their survival, tends to be the most serious impact. Once the soil is impacted, the physical structure, chemical composition, biological factors and so on will be changed, and ultimately affect the types and growth of plants on the soil, insects and animals will also be migrated or reduced.

2, the impact on plants: human tourism activities on the surface vegetation and plant impact can be divided into two categories of direct impact and indirect impact. Direct impact behaviors include removal, trampling, fire, collection as campfire material and harm to aquatic plants. Indirect impact properties include issues such as introduction of exotic species, nutrient salt pollution, vehicle exhaust, and soil erosion, all of which indirectly affect plant growth and health.

3, the impact on animals: the development of tourist areas may destroy the habitat or shelter of wildlife. Tourists always like to "have to eat and take", eat a variety of delicacies, but also prefer to collect all kinds of wildlife products to show their dominance, so the lives of wild animals are threatened.

4, the impact on the water environment: the water environment in the tourism culture occupies an important position, and thus the impact of tourism activities on the water environment is also quite extensive and serious.

5, the impact on the atmospheric environment: tourists into the tourist areas and for tourists to take the transportation swarming, automobile emissions of a large number of toxic exhaust, raising dust and many tourists exhaled carbon dioxide, as well as tourist areas of hotels, restaurants and other living boiler emissions, will cause serious pollution of the atmospheric environment of the tourist areas.

6, the impact on environmental health: the impact of tourism activities on environmental health is mainly manifested in solid waste garbage pollution. In many scenic areas, people everywhere can see tourists discarded all kinds of solid waste garbage. Garbage pollution has now become a major scourge in many of our country's scenic areas, is a very common and thorny problem.

7, the impact of environmental aesthetics: tourism activities on the environmental aesthetics of the adverse impact mainly lies in the tourists' uncivilized tourism behavior and the tourism industry's unreasonable development and construction.

8, the impact on the social and cultural environment: the destruction of cultural relics and monuments, and once again the footsteps of many tourists will also damage the cultural relics and monuments. The impact on the values and living habits of local residents, the excessive commercialization of traditional culture, inducing host-guest conflicts.