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women from several Asian countries into the United States and forcing them to work in
brothels across the country'.
Plate 4.4:
Tourist saturation in St
Mark's Square, Venice, Italy.
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
One of the areas of major interest for geographers is the impacts of tourists and
recreationists on the physical environment (Butler 2000). The reason for
Plate 4.5:
Front of St Mark's Square,
Venice. The unique marine
environment provides opportunities for
sustainable tourist transport as the
water taxis (gondolas) show.
this lies in part in the nature of geography, which has a strong tradition of study of the
interactions of humans with their environment (Mitchell and Murphy 1991; Wong 2004).
Indeed, the impacts of tourism and recreation on the physical environ-ment and the
