Disadvantages Connected With the Development of Tourism in the Contemporary World and the Concept of Sustainable Tourism

This article describes the natural, social and economic disadvantages of the development of tourism around the world. A review was also carried out of the basic indices describing volume of tourist traffic including the tourism intensity index, Baretje-Defert’s index, Defert’s index, and Charvat’s index), in terms of their usage in measuring the level of threat of tourism-related disadvantages. Areas that are much more vulnerable to a magnitude of disadvantages associated with the development of tourism are indicated and an attempt is made to determine which of the disadvantages (social, economic or natural) pose the greatest threat to the tourist-receiving area. The concept of sustainable tourism and the possibility of solving the disadvantages problems was presented. In addition, an answer is sought to the question of which indices can describe and monitor the level of tourism development disadvantage in the social, economic and natural spheres.