Extreme tourism: nepal
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- Created on: 29-04-15 15:13
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- Extreme Tourism: Nepal
- Location
- Island locked coutnry
- Central Asia
- Contains 8/10 of the highest peaks in the world
- Contains part of the Himalayan mountain range
- Activities
- Rafting
- Biking
- Paragliding
- Jet-skiing
- Trekking
- Mountain flights
- Environmental impacts
- Positive
- Waste land can be used
- Negative
- Littler pollutes the environemt
- Tourists may trample on plants and animals
- Footpath erosion = flooding
- Tourists create deforestation as the cut down trees for fires
- Fires disturb animals
- Waste pollution causes harm to environment if not buried at least 50 m away from water source
- Positive
- Social impacts
- Positive
- Creates many jobs like tourist guides
- Employs over 130,000 people
- Income tax can be used by local counsel to be spent on education and health care
- Negative
- A new group were non- Sherpas but they couldn't cope with the high altidudes
- This create conflict due to social inequality
- Sherpas benefited alot they had a high income, but some become drug addict and ruined their reputation
- Positive
- Management
- Protects the environment
- Illegal to interfere with the wildlife or their habitat
- Not allowed to walk on vegetation or pick flower/plants
- Law states tourists not allowed to use fuel wood
- Reforestation
- Reduces pollution
- Waste is buried in cat holes or recycled
- Vegetable or food scrapes are given to animals
- Waste is burnt or is biodegradable
- Litter picks
- Saving fuel
- Kerosene gas is used instead of wood for cooking
- Travel ecologically (by horse)
- Protects the environment
- Economical impacts
- Negative
- money will have to be spent on repairing foot path erosion
- Westerns bring over disrespectful ways of life so police force will have to be increased
- Relative poverty due to a high cost of living
- Negative
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