Environmental Impacts of Tourism

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                 5/8/2007

Environmental Impacts of Tourism

A case study of the environmental impact of tourism to a destination and resort

Contents

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  1. Introduction                                                                3
  1. The family and their holiday                                3
  2. About the chosen destination                                3
  3. About the resort/ Cemaes Bay                                5
  4. Planning the Holiday                                        7
  1. Service Provider                                                        8
  1. The Agent/Tour Operator environmental policies        8
  2. Travel environmental policies                                 9
  1. Methods of measuring the impacts                                10
  1. Quantifying Impacts                                                10
  2. Accessing impacts Table 1                                        10
  3. Accessing impacts Table 2                                        11
  1. Impacts                                                                12
  1. Itinerary  Table 3                                                12
  2. Impacts based on itinerary Table 4                        13
  1. Discussion                                                                 15
  2. Conclusion and recommendations                                 18
  3. References                                                                20

                                        

  1. Introduction

  1. The Family and their Holiday

A family of four family from Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire called the Wrights, who consist of Mother, Father and two children, aged 12 and 15 and a pet dog are taking a two week seaside holiday in Cemaes Bay, Anglesey, North Wales during the school summer holidays. This is planned as a top up holiday, as they have already spent two weeks abroad in Tenerife during the Easter holidays and they plan to use this holiday to participate in some water sports and other family activities. The Wrights, have over the last few years been conscious of environmental issues and have encouraged their children to limit their use of energy and water and also limit and sort waste products.

Anglesey was chosen as it is only a two and half hour drive away from home and offers a good all-round family seaside holiday and is near enough for Mr. Wright to attend an important work meeting in Manchester which is planned for the middle of the holiday.

  1. About the chosen destination

Anglesey is situated in the United Kingdom, just off the north-west coast of Wales and near the beautiful Snowdonia mountain range. It is separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait, which is spanned by two picturesque bridges, the Menai Bridge and the Britannia Bridge.

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Anglesey is the largest island off the Welsh and English coast and its landscape reveals a vast number of archaeological and historical episodes. The Vikings settled on the island and used the name Anglesey in honour of Ongull and before them the Romans referred to the island as Mona, hence the islands Welsh name - Ynys Môn.

The Language remains a vital aspect of their history and Welsh is spoken widely as a first language by many local people and is still spoken on a daily basis by over 60% of the island's inhabitants. The Welsh language is one of Europe's oldest and is closely linked to Scottish and Irish Gaelic, Cornish and Breton.

Anglesey's mild maritime climate and mix of different habitats provide an ideal environment for a wealth of plants and this attracts birds, mammals and insects which feed on them.

The Menai Strait boasts worldwide importance of marine life and the whirling currents around Swellies, by the Menai Bridge are one of fiercest in the British Isles and are the habitat to bass, cod and conger eels. Newborough Warren is now part of a National Nature Reserve and is well known for its sand dune surroundings which have an array of wildlife. The woodland along the Menai shore is also home to hares, foxes, bats and the rare red squirrel and birds of prey including the kestrel, barn owl, sparrow hawk and buzzard.

The central area of the island is low lying and contains some of Anglesey's most ecologically important habitats and the National Nature Reserves of Cors Goch and Cors Erddreiniog can be found and the island is a recognized area for a haven of wildlife. The 125 mile coastline is mainly designated as an ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ and includes many sandy and stony beaches, inaccessible cliffs, mudflats and brackish lagoon and is rich with bird life. There are spectacular seabird colonies on the cliffs at South Stack, Holyhead, where guillemots, razorbills, chough and stonechat nest. There is also a large colony of Puffins here and on Puffin Island off Penmon.

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  1. About the Resort - Cemaes Bay
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The family decided to stay in the resort of Cemaes Bay, a small old fishing harbour. This pretty coved shaped harbour was the main port of Anglesey’s north coast before the growth of the nearby Amlwch harbour and was the centre for fishing, shipbuilding and smuggling. Cemaes has retained its charm as an attractive village and is grouped around a small harbour and breakwater which now shields fishing and pleasure boats at their moorings. The main attraction of the bay is its two sandy beaches, Traeth Mawr, known as the big beach and Traeth Bach known as the little ...

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