Chapter 6: A Review on Effect of Sustainable Tourism on Host Community

Rapid and uncontrolled tourism expansion has increased the risk of environmental damage in these fragile ecosystems. Unnecessary energy use, transportation, water utilization, trash, has all added to an unnatural weather change in context to tourism. A few other adverse consequences of uncontrolled Tourism are clogged, inappropriate slop removal, beach disintegration, overfishing, threat towards natural life & living species etc. Tourism may have bad effect on host community in terms of language and cultural impacts, undesirable way of life changes, acquainting persistent vices with the nearby populace, medical conditions e.g. expansion in wrongdoing, gridlock and swarming that causes pressure, inconvenience, and struggle. The aim of this paper is to generate awareness among tourists towards environment and local communities so that they can become responsible tourists towards local environment and local people.