Wrap-up

Congratulations! You just finished our first chapter about tourism impacts and challenges. You learned that tourism has social, economic and environmental impacts on a destination. These impacts can be positive or negative and the three pillars of impacts need to be balanced. You also had a closer look at a chosen destination with its challenges and impacts of tourism. In the next chapter we will have a closer look at sustainable destination management. 

If you want to learn more about the challenges and impacts of tourism don't hesitate to click on the following links: 

• Making Tourism More Sustainable: a Guide for Policy Makers, United Nations Environment Programme and the World Tourism Organization
• Engaging the Aruba Community in Sustainable Tourism Planning - Sustainable Travel International