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Tourism and environment

Protecting the environment means protecting human beings. Very often man forgets this truth causing depredations to nature thereby harming himself. All over the world, disasters suffered by the environment have been costly and have required considerable resources and programs for its protection and safeguarding. With 2,381,741 km2 and 1,200 kilometers of coastline, Algeria presents a great variety and climates and vegetation thereby constitute a natural and tourist heritage requiring safeguarding and harmonious and coherent valorization. For tourism, the physical environment and the elements that constitute it are the raw material conducive to the development of tourism products that would directly benefit citizens and the economy. Vast environmental preservation programs have been initiated by the State for many years, increasingly integrating concerns consistent with the economic and social needs of the country. Water, an essential element for life and work, is a precious asset to protect and promote. Likewise, our coasts are not spared from the scourge of pollution, caused by the unconsciousness and ignorance of human beings, which constitutes a danger for marine fauna and flora and which continue to suffer permanent attacks. This situation is aggravated by destructive actions such as excessive sand extraction, forest fires, pollution of groundwater and the atmosphere, etc. On this occasion of World Environment Day celebrated every year on June 5, it is necessary to emphasize the interdependent nature of tourism and the environment because the two sectors are fragile and can only coexist. This is why, for the creation of ecotourism, it would be appropriate to take the environment into account in any infrastructure development, whether seaside, Saharan, climatic or thermal. The environment continues to suffer the ravages of industrialization and urbanization throughout the world. This has prompted the appearance at the international and national level of ecology movements leading, alongside public authorities, broad awareness-raising actions for the protection of the environment, the common capital of humanity.