The Threat of Winter and Summer Holidays to the Environment

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The Threat of Winter and Summer Holidays to the Environment

One of the most essential things for tourism to be successful in a

particular place is the quality of the environment, both natural and

man-made. But when do the people have enough time to see these sites,

but on summer and winter holidays. However tourism involves many

activities that have a negative effect on the environment. These occur

when the level of usage is bigger than the amount of caring for the

environment. Uncontrolled tourism is threatening many natural areas

around the world. It can put great pressure on an area, and lead to

negative environmental impacts on air and water quality, vegetation,

soil, wildlife, and many other things. These problems occur during

summer holidays when tourists visit the beaches or out into the wild,

they even sometimes end up destroying the countryside after they

leave. Then comes the winter holidays where they main go to the Alps

and other snowy mountains to ski, snowboard, and do other things on

the snow, but even there they don't forget to leave the environment

harmed.

One of the most important areas of tourism is transportation to take

the tourists to their summer destinations (i.e. the beach). Transport

by air, road and rail is rising steadily because of the increasing

number of tourists. One consequence of this is that tourism is

responsible for a large amount of air pollutions. These emissions, as

well as those from the production of electricity (another important

tourist need) are linked to acid rain, chemical pollution and global

warming.

And when tourists are not going anywhere, they are probably on the

beach, littering both the beach with their rubbish or polluting the

water with noisy jet skis that leak oil into the water killing many

plants and animals. Other thing that the tourists don't realize is,

that their constant trampling on soil causes the plants to die and

loosens the soil particles and also accelerates soil erosion in that

area. They should have more bin facilities, and signs to make the

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