Effects of Air Pollution on Daily Mortality Effects of Air Pollution on Daily Mortality in Lisbon: Implications for Tourism in Lisbon: Implications for Tourism
... Hasta la fecha se han generado numerosas iniciativas de diferentes instituciones y organismos a nivel mundial sobre los retos que plantea la consecución de un desarrollo económico más armónico con el medio ambiente que promueva la actividad turística y la conservación al medio ambiente, haciendo una creciente importancia en la medida de que incermentan las cifras globales del turismo, haciendo espacios receptores más exitentes en una imagen limpia y libre de contaminantes en donde se perciba un espacio sano que visitar. (Almeida, S. P., Nogueira, P., Casimiro, E., & Santos, F. D. (2020). Es por ello que el tema que se aborda en esta investigación es la percepción que tienen los turistas con la imagen en cuanto a contaminación que presentan las ciudades. ...
El impacto que ha repercutido en el daño al medio ambiente con relación a la actividad turistica ha tenido una pecepción significativa en los visitantes que arriban a un lugar, siendo un obstáculo para el correcto desarrollo del turismo en los destinos turísticos, generando perdidas económicas y del atráctivo mismo. Por ello, la presente investigación tiene como objetivo determinar la percepción del turista en relación a la contaminación ambiental de Escárcega, para ello, se empleó una metodología cualitativa y descriptiva mediante una muestra aleatoria siemple, se aplicó una encuesta a los visitantes y mediante la observación se determinó los tipos de contaminantes que sobresalen a simple vista en la ciudad de Escárcega. El resultado muestra que los visitantes perciben dos tipos de contaminación (aire y suelo) resaltando la notoriedad del problema ambiental que afecta considerablemente la imagen del lugar debido a la falta de interés por mejorar las técnicas de recolección de desechos sólidos y comprometiendo a las autoridades y población local para que haya una mayor concientización en el cuidado de no seguir contaminando la ciudad con sus malas prácticas ambientales.
This study took Beijing as a case to examine the potential impact of smog on the domestic demand of tourist destinations in China. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was employed to explore and confirm the causal relationships between perception of travel risk, travel dissatisfaction, negative destination and avoidance tendency. It is found that the Mainland Chinese residents have a strong perception of the potential travel risk caused by smog in Beijing. Moreover, the impact of travel risk perception on avoidance tendency is indirect and works through the mediating variables such as travel dissatisfaction or negative destination image.
Apheis is a public health surveillance system that aims to provide European, national, regional, and local decision makers, environmental health professionals, and the general public with up to date and easy to use information on air pollution and public health. This study presents the health impact assessment done in 19 cities of Western and Eastern European countries.
Apheis developed guidelines for gathering and analysing data on air pollution and the impact on public health. Apheis has analysed the acute and chronic effects of fine particles on premature mortality using the estimates developed by Aphea2 study and two American cohort studies. This health impact assessment was performed for different scenarios on the health benefits of reducing levels of particles less than 10 microm in size (PM(10)).
PM(10) concentrations were measured in 19 cities (range: 14-73 microg/m(3)). The population covered in this health impact assessment includes nearly 32 million inhabitants. The age standardised mortality rates (per 100 000 people) range from 456 in Toulouse to 1127 in Bucharest. Reducing long term exposure to PM(10) concentrations by 5 microg/m(3) would have "prevented" between 3300 and 7700 early deaths annually, 500 to 1000 of which are associated with short term exposure.
Apheis shows that current levels of air pollution in urban Europe have a non-negligible impact on public health, and that preventive measures could reduce this impact, even in cities with low levels of air pollution.
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