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The Impact of Tourism and Sports Activities

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Though recreation activities exert a rather limited influence on the environment in comparison to other sectors like industry and agriculture, in planning more attention should be paid to their environmental impacts (particularly on topographic conditions). This impact on the relief can be manifold. The establishment of ski-trails starts with deforestation and continues by bulldozing or blasting for levelling the landscape. Waterside environments are also popular scenes for tourism and sports. Finally, the impacts of golfing, motor sports, hiking (camping, rock collecting, etc.) are also mentioned with examples.

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  1. Department of Tourism and Regional Development, Károly Róbert College, 3200, Gyöngyös, Hungary

    Lóránt Dávid

  2. Tourism Department, Ministry of Local Government, József A. u. 2–4, 1051, Budapest, Hungary

    Zsuzsanna Lontai-Szilágyi

  3. Institute of Agroinformatics and Rural Development, Károly Róbert College, Mátrai út 36, 3200, Gyöngyös, Hungary

    Zoltán Baros

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Dávid, L., Lontai-Szilágyi, Z., Baros, Z. (2010). The Impact of Tourism and Sports Activities. In: Szabó, J., Dávid, L., Lóczy, D. (eds) Anthropogenic Geomorphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3058-0_15

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