Write a detailed note on the relationship between the natural environment and tourism development.
The Relationship between Tourism and the Environment
Since the second half of the 19th century, when seaside holidays became a popular activity in Europe and the United States, growth in seashore and boating activities together with relatively unspoilt scenery of coastal and marine areas have been a significant factor in tourism and development. There has been an accompanying pattern of increasing development and transformation of tourism activities from wilderness-based nature tourism to coastal tourism in transformed environments, such as in mass beach tourism.
Kenchington 1993 provides a table describing the relationship between environmental condition and human impacts associated with recreation and tourism, below.
| Condition | Description |
| Wilderness | No detectable human works or impact. ___ _____ ______ _________ __________. |