What are the 4 types of carrying capacity in tourism?

The system of ecotourism environmental carrying capacity consists of four parts: resource environmental carrying capacity, ecology environmental carrying capacity, psychology environmental carrying capacity, and tourism environmental carrying capacity.



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Factors that will affect the carrying capacity of a tourist destination will be include other factors such as: Infrastructure - transport capacity, sewage and water supply systems, accommodation. Social - impact of tourism on local culture, costs and benefits to services.

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Economic carrying capacity takes the form of maximum global economic welfare derivable from the sustainable throughput flows of the ecosphere. This is fleshed out by development of a welfare return curve plotted as a function of economic scale; the latter is measured by entropic throughput.

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Cultural carrying capacity depends on human attitudes towards a species, so it can be influenced by public education campaigns. Examples: Hunting proponents argue that the deer have not reached their biological carrying capacity, but have reached their cultural carrying capacity.

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