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  2. Tourism carrying capacity - Wikipedia

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    The tourism industry, especially in national parks and protected areas, is subject to the concept of carrying capacity so as to determine the scale of tourist activities which can be sustained at specific times in different places. Various scholar over the years have developed several arguments developed about the definition of carrying capacity.

  3. Available seat miles - Wikipedia

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    In the airline industry an available seat mile is the fundamental unit of production for a passenger-carrying airline. [2] A unit in this case is one seat, available for sale, flown one mile. For example, an aircraft with 300 seats available for sale flying 1,000 statute miles would generate 300,000 ASMs for that particular flight. That the ...

  4. Overtourism - Wikipedia

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    The excessive growth of visitors can lead to negative effect for local residents, especially during temporary or seasonal tourism peaks. Therefore, the carrying capacity of a tourist destination is also measured in terms of social carrying capacity, and the behaviour of the tourists. [8] Overtourism is sometimes incorrectly equated with mass ...

  5. Carrying capacity - Wikipedia

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    The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available.

  6. Bibliography of tourism - Wikipedia

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    This is a bibliography of works related the subject of tourism.. Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".

  7. Rural tourism - Wikipedia

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    One such form of capacity is economic capacity so that the tourism industry does not displace sustainable local economic activity already in place. Additionally, there is an environmental carrying capacity , the limit at which the environment is not degraded from tourism.

  8. Overshoot (population) - Wikipedia

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    The 1972 book The Limits to Growth discussed the limits to growth of society as a whole. This book included a computer-based model which predicted that the Earth would reach a carrying capacity of ten to fourteen billion people after some two hundred years, after which the human population would collapse. [7]

  9. Impacts of tourism - Wikipedia

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    The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) tourism satellite account (TSA) is a system of measurement recognized by the United Nations to define the extent of an economic sector that is not so easily defined as industries like forestry or oil and gas [15] Tourism does not fit neatly into a statistical model; because it is not so much dependent ...