QUIZ FOR ST

• The major resource for tourism is the environment.
• Symbiotic is the mutual dependence between tourism and environment.
• According to Urtasuna & Gutierrez, tourism contains the seed of its own destruction, that is, tourism can kill tourism.
• The 5 aspects of the environment are:

  Natural Phenomena

  Natural Resources

  Natural Areas

  Farmed Environment

  Built Environment

  Wildlife
• Natural Phenomena examples are:

  Eclipses

  Volcanic Eruption

  Animal Migration

  Aurora Borealis
• Natural Resources examples are:

  Water

  Climate

  Air
• Natural Areas examples are:

  Mountains

  Seas

  Rivers & Lakes

  Caves

  Beaches
• Farmed Environment examples are:

  Agricultural

  Man-made

  Forest

  Fish farms
• Built Environment examples are:

  Buildings

  Villages

  Transport

  Infrastructure

  Reservoirs
• Wildlife examples are:

  Flora

  Land-based mammals

  Birds

  Insects

  Fish and Marine Mammals
• 2 Major Types of Ecosystem are:

  Terrestrial Ecosystem

  Aquatic Ecosystem
• Forms of Terrestrial Ecosystem are:

  Forest

  Desert

  Grasslands

  Mountains
• Forest

  • There is an abundance in flora and fauna
• Desert

  • Receives annual rainfall less than 25 inches
• Grasslands

  • Tropical and temperate regions
• Mountain

  • Provides habitats for large number of animals and plants.
• Marine Ecosystem

  • Covers the 71% of the earth
  • Oceanic, coral reefs
• Freshwater Ecosystem

  • Cover only 0.8% of Earth's surface
• 3 Basic Kinda of Freshwater

  • Lentic (slow moving or still)
  • Lotic (fast moving)
  • Wetland
• Areas with high value of natural resources and great scenic beauty attract tourists and new residents who seek emotional and spiritual connection with nature.
• Because people value nature, selected natural environments are preserved, protected and kept from ecological decline.
• Tourism income often makes possible to preserve and restore historic buildings and monuments.
• Improvements in the areas appearance through cleanup or repairs and the addition of public art such as water fountains, benefit visitors and residents alike.
• Tourism can also degrade an environment.
• Visitors generates waste and pollution.
• Water code of the Philippines

  Article 51 of the water code of the ph
• A zone of 3 meters in urban area.
• 20 meters in agricultural areas.
• 40 meters in forest areas.
• Tourism contribute to the conservation of archeological & historic sites through:

  • Financial support
  • Increase aware and advocacy
  • Regulation management
• Positive Environmental Impacts of Tourism

  • Improvement of Environmental Quality
  • Conservation of Archeological and Historic Sites
  • Enhancement of the Environment
  • Improvement of Infrastructure
  • Increased Environmental Awareness
• Negative Environmental Impacts of Tourism

  • Water Pollution
  • Air Pollution
  • Visual Pollution
  • Congestion - density of population.
  • Waste Disposal Problems
  • Ecological Disruption
  • Environmental Hazards
  • Damage to Archeological and Historic Sites Land use Problems