Abstract:
Tourism, a significant contributor to the global economy, treads a fine line between exploitation and preservation. As travelers seek out the world's wonders, they inevitably leave footprints - some beneficial, others detrimental. This article unpacks the complex relationship between tourism, the environment, and climate change, exploring the balance we must achieve for a sustainable future.Tourism is an important economic activity of every nation. It is one of the growing industries of Maharashtra. The tourism industry relies on environmental, natural, and cultural resources. Tourism and environmental resources can be seen as two sides of the same coin. In economics, the demand for tourism depends upon the peace and prosperity, safe and security, free from ethnic crisis and terrorism, political and economic stability. The increasing demand (development) of the tourism industry yields both positive impacts on the economy in terms of earning forex, promoting business in tourism zones, and negative impacts on the environment in terms of damaging environment, creating pollution, spoiling atmosphere, degrading environmental values, bringing externality, depleting marine and forest eco-systems, disappearing flora, fauna, and valuable species, lessening and exploiting resources, dumping wastes, and above all importing dangerous viruses. In recent years, cultural and tourism economists advocated that eco-tourism and medical tourism for attracting tourists from both local and international. Environmental management is limited more by lack of adoption than by lack of technology. In developed nations, such effects are outweighed by the impacts of recreational use and by political pressures from tourism property developers. These interactions deserve research in both natural and social sciences. Research priorities include more sophisticated recreation ecology as well as legal and social frameworks for conservation tourism.
