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UNIT 2: TOURISM, HOSPITALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT – IMPACTS AND SOLUTIONS<br />
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UNIT 2: EXERCISES<br />
1. GROUP DISCUSSION OR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT<br />
Consider an urban or rural tourist location where environment degradation is, or<br />
will soon be, causing concern.<br />
To what extent is the tourism industry contributing to this degradation?<br />
What efforts are in place to curb this degradation?<br />
What additional efforts could be made towards environmentally-sound tourism?<br />
2. GROUP DISCUSSION, GROUP PROJECT OR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT<br />
You have been invited by your local authority to develop an environmentallysound<br />
tourism strategy for your town/province. What are the principles that will<br />
guide you in the development of this strategy? Make a 10-15 minute presentation<br />
outlining this strategy.<br />
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3. GROUP DISCUSSION OR GROUP PROJECT<br />
Consider your daily lifestyle over the past week and list all the goods and services<br />
you have purchased and consumed, including water and electricity, food and<br />
drink, transport, entertainment and leisure activities, communications, toiletries,<br />
clothes, books, stationery, etc. This will now give you an idea of the material<br />
intensity of daily lifestyles. Discuss and begin to assess the environment impacts<br />
that have taken place in order to provide you with these goods and services. With<br />
little or no inconvenience to your present lifestyle and comfort, what could you do<br />
to lower the environment impacts of your daily life?<br />
4. GROUP DISCUSSION, GROUP PROJECT OR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT<br />
Outline the environment impacts caused by tourism in your region or country.<br />
What measures have been taken to manage these impacts?<br />
Critically assess the effectiveness of these measures and how they could be<br />
improved.<br />
5. GROUP DISCUSSION OR WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT<br />
Discuss the following statements:<br />
• There are environmental limits to the development of tourism.<br />
• Tourism is a victim of its own success.<br />
6. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT<br />
Develop an action checklist for environmentally-sound tourism.<br />
7. WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT<br />
Read the following article and write a 1,500-word report on how sustainable<br />
tourism could be developed in the Maldives.