Name: JEAN BERNARD ALEXANDRE BONGOUT
Student ID: 19031442
Course code: ENG 1024
Course name: English for Tourism service
Industry.
Assignment: Synthetizing information/
Summary writing.
Weightage: 15%
Instructor: Ms Mazlin Mohamed
Last-chance tourism is a type of tourism whereby tourists want to visit
the most
jeopardized places in the world as cited in Lawson(n.d). However, this tourism has
sparked
debate whether it has a positive or negative impact on the environment. It is
considered to have a negative impact towards the disappearing destinations. This
discussion will help to identify the risks and opportunities as well as the long term
prospective of last-chance tourism.
According to Powell(2008), last-chance tourism can have a positive as
well as a negative impact on the environment. It can sensibilize people about climate
change but at the same time increase the rate of negative human impact. Therefore,
tourism is both impacted by and is itself a contributor to climate change in
destinations.
Another point to consider is that increasing number of the
tourism, which improve the economy of the country, exploit the
vulnerable species and ecosystems due to the short-terms economic
Student ID: 19031442
Course code: ENG 1024
Course name: English for Tourism service
Industry.
Assignment: Synthetizing information/
Summary writing.
Weightage: 15%
Instructor: Ms Mazlin Mohamed
Last-chance tourism is a type of tourism whereby tourists want to visit
the most
jeopardized places in the world as cited in Lawson(n.d). However, this tourism has
sparked
debate whether it has a positive or negative impact on the environment. It is
considered to have a negative impact towards the disappearing destinations. This
discussion will help to identify the risks and opportunities as well as the long term
prospective of last-chance tourism.
According to Powell(2008), last-chance tourism can have a positive as
well as a negative impact on the environment. It can sensibilize people about climate
change but at the same time increase the rate of negative human impact. Therefore,
tourism is both impacted by and is itself a contributor to climate change in
destinations.
Another point to consider is that increasing number of the
tourism, which improve the economy of the country, exploit the
vulnerable species and ecosystems due to the short-terms economic
