The effect of tourism on the ecological state of the environment

National Transport University, Kyiv, Ukraine

^* Corresponding author: tsypkovictoria@gmail.com

Abstract

The purpose of the proposed article is to analyze tourism, as one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy, which has significant and multifaceted socio-cultural and economic consequences of the impact on the environmental state of the environment. Methodology is based on scientific and special research methods. Methods of analysis, synthesis, systematization, classification, generalization of economic and methodical sources are used. Research has shown that tourism can be a powerful economic tool, but if not properly planned, it can have a devastating impact on biodiversity and pristine environments, leading to the misuse of natural resources such as water, forests and marine life. In a number of world centers of tourism development, a lack of water is already felt today, which negatively affects the life of local communities, the functioning of industry, the destruction of forests and damaged coral reefs. The article solves important problems related to the diverse impact of tourism on the ecological state of the environment. The adverse impact of tourism on the environment simultaneously undermines the main resource for tourism in coastal areas and strongly affects other non-tourism economic activities. It has been analyzed that the negative consequences of tourism occur when the level of use by visitors exceeds the ability of the environment to cope with this use within acceptable limits of change. It has been proven that to avoid these consequences, tourism must be planned, managed and implemented in a way that is environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial and economically viable.