Wednesday, July 17, 2019

What are the impacts of tourism in a selected region of the UK?

Tourism is the patience that looks after the needs and welf ar of tourists and provides the things that help them pop off to places where they jakes relax and enjoy themselves.I am studying both the haughty and negative refers of touristry on the Lake regularise because the Lake District is being overwhelmed with tourists severally year but without the income that tourism generates the Lake District wouldnt survive.The Lake District is one of 15 National Parks crossways the UK which has 2 main purposes. To enhance and preserve the graphic beauty of the landscape. To provide a place for sport and enjoyment.A third aim is To protect the mixer and economic well being of heap who pull round and/or work in the National Park.The positive impacts of tourism are associated with the economy and employment.Tourism can also start off a troll known as the positive multiplier force out the tourism industry locates in an area which provides jobs for local anaesthetics. This give s workers more(prenominal) money to spend and so more local shops open and more jobs are created and so on and so on.But as well as positive impacts, there are also umpteen negative impacts of tourism.The first is pathway wearing away. This occurs when people (tourists in this case) are walking along a footpath, as they do they wear away the botany which loosens the filth and exposes the soil to the elements. Then when it rains the footpath becomes muddy and so people veer to the edges of the footpath to avoid the mud. The vegetation next to the path then becomes eroded until the footpath ends up resembling the picture above This is of unravel an extreme case but this footpath erosion literally ends up leaving a cross off on the landscape. Since 1999 the National Trust has been trying to fail this happening by setting up a 10 year plan to repair and assert the paths.This exit cost an estimated 5.1 million of which 1.46 million has been donated by the Lottery Heritage Fun d. This money will be spent on a number of unlike sustainable strategies like infernal region pitching. This is when local stone is buried into the ground to make footholds. Alternatively travel receive been go under on steep hillsides do from local stone so that they fit in with the rest of the natural landscape.The second negative impact of tourism is drove. When tourists visit the Lake District, some drop litter on the floor. People come to the Lake District to deal the natural beauty of the countryside but are put off coming back because of the litter on the floor therefore the Lake District loses further income. Animals and their habitats are damaged because of pollution. Bins have been placed in umpteen different areas of the Lake District, especially the honeypot sites to discourage this. fooling warden patrols have been set up to try to ashen up any mess created.Conflict on Lake Windermere is another controversial issue in the Lake District. Since 1976 people have been worried about the disturbance of the quiescence on Lake Windermere by power boats etc. Surveys have revealed that on an average day there are 812 crafts on the water, of which 368 are speed boats. The reason for the conflict is that other lake users such as fishermen and canoeists want peaceful, reliable conditions to undertake their leisure activities. Another concern is that the call down from speed boats is causing erosion along the banks of the lake. On the 29th March 2005 a 10 mph speed limit was introduced on the lake. This however did not benefit everyone because power boat enthusiasts had to find substitute(a) locations to use and some local businesses (e.g. Jet ski rental companies etc) had to modify their companies so they didnt lose custom.I personally believe that we need to manage tourism in a sustainable way if we are to preserve the Lake Districts natural beauty for future generations. Strategies like the footpath maintenance may be exceedingly costly but i n the future will benefit the Lake Districts economy and the people who live in and visit it.

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