gender differential paper IJCRB

ijcrb.webs.com
JUNE 2011
INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS VOL 3, NO 2
Another pollution problem is the litter issue. That is a problem especially in the remote or poverty
area. I have been to Tibet, which is called the world last pure place. I was shocked by the nice
people and fantastic scenery, extremely blue sky, transparent water, and the marvelous snow
mountain. The picture below can show a little of its beauty. Is it amazing? But can you imagine.
There are also some disappointed scenes there just outside the picture. More and more tourists make
there more and more dirty. Cans, bottles, toilet papers, you can see these litters almost everywhere.
The local restaurants are still using the so-called “white wastes” canteens, and they are thrown
directly to the nature after used. Local residents seem not care about the environment. Nobody
responds for cleaning and treating the rubbish. Yes, Tibet did make money since more and more
visitors there. But I do worry about the future of its tourism industry. If current situation continued,
we might not maintain the “world last pure land”. The tourism there will be damaged a lot.
Lake of Tibet Lijiang crescent moon spring
Water shortage and land desertification
Tourism is also a huge resources consumer. The evidence shows that tourists' water consumption
was far in excess of that of local residents and that deteriorates water stress in regions and areas
which already suffer from water shortages (Djerba Conference, 2003). Western China is a typical
water-scarce area. In order to improve its tourism industry, the resorts, hotels and restaurants have to
give full time water service for their visitors, including 24-hour showing water, although they have
totally about 10 million people who met drinking water difficulties.
Nowadays, many natural resorts are threatened by water shortage and desertification. Lijiang, China,
which attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors because of its beautiful landscape of mountain and
water, now is “tired”. In several months, especially from September to next February, water shortage
makes boats have difficulty to navigate in the river.
Another heart-struck example is shrinkage of crescent moon spring, Gansu, China by desertification.
According to the native’s introduction, in the recent decades, the crescent moon spring actually is
shrinking by the astonishing speed., the current crescent moon spring water surface is only 1/3 of
1960’s, and the water depth also dropped from 7 - 8 meters to today’s about 1 meter. If that
continued, this well-known tourism destination would disappear from this planet.
2.2 Socio-Culture Issues
Cultural tourism is about movements of people motivated by cultural intents such as study tours,
performing arts, festivals, cultural events, visits to sites and monuments, as well as travel for
pilgrimages, and enjoyment of the lifestyle of the local people, the local area and what constitutes its
COPY RIGHT © 2011 Institute of Interdisciplinary Business Research 25