1 Tourism Impacts and Challenges

In this section, sustainable tourism expert Kennedy Pemberton, Director of Operations at Green Case Consulting, welcomes you and gives you an overview about what you are going to learn in this chapter. Click on the heading to get to the video he prepared for you.

In this video, tourism expert Vashti Ramsey-Casimir, Sustainable Tourism Officer at the Ministry of Tourism in Antigua, will introduce some of the negative tourism impacts the destination Antigua has had to face over time. 

In this video, tourism expert Robin Mason will give you some practical insights into sustainable tourism. She will explain tourism challenges at the Quirimbas Archipelago in Mozambique. 

Stephen Pratt, professor at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management in Florida, gives you some insights into socio-cultural impacts of tourism using the example of Beachcomber Island. 

Welcome to our first small assignment on sustainable tourism. You are now familiar with the triple bottom line of sustainable tourism and have heard in various practical insights where the greatest challenges for island states lie. Now it's time for you to engage practically with sustainable tourism yourself.

In this first step, you should choose a Small Island Developing State, research it, and gather facts about tourism. 

You don't know which one to choose? Have a look at this overview in wikipedia to learn more about the Small Island Developing States. 

Congratulations! You just finished our first chapter about tourism impacts and challenges. Click on the heading to get a very short summary and to learn about the way to continue your learning.