Tourism is a major part of the economic and social parts of Fiordland. In Fiordland tourism creates 1760 jobs for residents in Fiordland. One of the biggest economic contributors to Fiordland is the Fiordland national park which had 441,200 visitors in 2008. This would have had a positive economic consequence on Fiordland as this would have generated a lot of money for the town and enabled the town to keep going as well as producing jobs for residents in Fiordland.
The total economic consequence of Fiordland national park is estimated to be $228 million dollars a year which is a huge boost to the economy as Fiordland relies heavily on tourism as its main economy. This is a good thing for Fiordland as more money can mean that the council will …show more content…
Some of these are things like because heaps of people go to Fiordland to see the natural scenery they can destroy paths and/or natural environment because there is limited entry points into the park there is lots of foot traffic in these parts of the park and this can lead to destroying of paths because there are so many people walking over it in any weather the paths can start to fall away and this will lead to new paths being built which means more natural environment has to be cut down and this is destroying the natural habitats of animals. Ways in which the environmental impacts of tourism throughout Fiordland can be minimized:
The ways in which the environment can be less impacted is by having more sustainable environment activities in place e.g. in the sounds there are rare dolphins and lots of tourists want to go see them so they get boat rides to their habitat. The sound of the engines scares the dolphins and they stay away from the boats this disrupts the feeding patterns of the dolphins and means the dolphins get less oxygen as well so they have less energy this then results to less feeding and has resulted in deaths within the dolphin population and also the tourists can leave rubbish behind as there on a commercial boat. Also the engines can leak petrol and other hazardous substances into the water which effects the …show more content…
E.g. if Fiordland keeps growing in numbers of tourists it does mean more money for the shops and the council for awhile then it will stop as people go there if they want to see New Zealand environment and don’t want to be surrounded by people. But if it keeps growing the environment will start to die off e.g. with the dolphins or the walking tracks be full of people and slowly being eroded and rubbish left behind. This will stop some people from going to Fiordland and lead to a declining amount of money as it will be known to have lots of people and that it kills off the environment.
The future of tourism in Fiordland is sustainable but it needs to be more controlled e.g. which boats are going to the dolphins and what there doing there . If these things are all managed well then Fiordland will have a very sustainable economy from tourism and will do minimal damage to the
The total economic consequence of Fiordland national park is estimated to be $228 million dollars a year which is a huge boost to the economy as Fiordland relies heavily on tourism as its main economy. This is a good thing for Fiordland as more money can mean that the council will …show more content…
Some of these are things like because heaps of people go to Fiordland to see the natural scenery they can destroy paths and/or natural environment because there is limited entry points into the park there is lots of foot traffic in these parts of the park and this can lead to destroying of paths because there are so many people walking over it in any weather the paths can start to fall away and this will lead to new paths being built which means more natural environment has to be cut down and this is destroying the natural habitats of animals. Ways in which the environmental impacts of tourism throughout Fiordland can be minimized:
The ways in which the environment can be less impacted is by having more sustainable environment activities in place e.g. in the sounds there are rare dolphins and lots of tourists want to go see them so they get boat rides to their habitat. The sound of the engines scares the dolphins and they stay away from the boats this disrupts the feeding patterns of the dolphins and means the dolphins get less oxygen as well so they have less energy this then results to less feeding and has resulted in deaths within the dolphin population and also the tourists can leave rubbish behind as there on a commercial boat. Also the engines can leak petrol and other hazardous substances into the water which effects the …show more content…
E.g. if Fiordland keeps growing in numbers of tourists it does mean more money for the shops and the council for awhile then it will stop as people go there if they want to see New Zealand environment and don’t want to be surrounded by people. But if it keeps growing the environment will start to die off e.g. with the dolphins or the walking tracks be full of people and slowly being eroded and rubbish left behind. This will stop some people from going to Fiordland and lead to a declining amount of money as it will be known to have lots of people and that it kills off the environment.
The future of tourism in Fiordland is sustainable but it needs to be more controlled e.g. which boats are going to the dolphins and what there doing there . If these things are all managed well then Fiordland will have a very sustainable economy from tourism and will do minimal damage to the