Sustainable Tourism – Promoting Environmental Public Health

The course offers an introduction to key environmental health and natural resources management challenges associated with the rapid growth in international tourist arrivals into low-income countries. It will present experiences and potential avenues to develop a more sustainable form of tourism.

The course particularly focuses on the problems and potentials of tourism development in small island states in tropical and sub-tropical settings and highlights the challenges of such development on vulnerable ecosystems. It also highlights how tourism development in Zanzibar results in increased pressure on its marine environment, solid waste management, water resources and control of mosquitoes. These factors will be used as tracers of impacts and areas for future improvement towards a more sustainable form of tourism. Zanzibar will be in focus during this course and used as a case in order to exemplify how a massive increase of Tourism in a low income and resource-poor setting, can increase the vulnerability of the local population.

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Source: COURSERA

Offered by: University of Copenhagen

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