How Tourism affects Mountain Environments

How Tourism affects Mountain Environments Impact of Tourism on Mountain Environment Environmental History: A Global Perspective Singh, SC. Impact of Tourism on Mountain Environment, Meerut, India: Research India Publications, 1989, 377. Deterioration of mountain environment is obviously not the only problem that humans are dealing with in terms of pollution to the ecosystem. However, it is an ever increasing problem, that is ruining vegetation, landscape and even mountain culture. The book I have chosen to review is …

…of the Nepalese Mountain Environment and promotion for tourism was still very important for the economy. I also understood that in order to accomplish anything, it was important for a compromise to be made between the wishes of the tourists and the local people. Unfortunately, as one author points out, the "majority of individuals and institutions are turning to exploitation of nature with only an insufficient minority sparing some efforts for sustaining it" (Singh 1989, pg. 24).