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Tourism can encourage
people from all over the world to visit one's country and experience its
culture and lifestyle. Also,many countries are obtaining financial benefits
through their tourism industry. However, there are negative effects of economy
in some countries. It is undeniable that tourism has affected local economy,
which has both advantages as well as serious drawbacks.
Concerning to the
positive side, it is generally true that the tourism industry is vital for some
countries, which people rely on tourism for their income. it creates
employment due to demand for goods and
services such as hotel and
mentertainment. Also it helps to improve the standard of living. Aside from
that, tourism would be promoted advertising of national values by tourist,
visiting monument, sight-seeing historical places, tasting traditional food.
While the merits of
tourism have been prevalent, society need to also aware of its demerits. First
tourism can have a negative impact on the environment. To illustrate, excessive
building destroys natural habitats and spoils the landscape. For example,
developing road and building accommodation without regulation, it puts pressure
on local resources such as food, water and energy. Another negative point of
this is local traditions could be disrupt the authenticity. For instance,
tradition jobs and skills die out as farming and fishing, since local people
are forced to work in tourist industry. Moreover, these are related to that
tourism may cause a rise in the cost of living by commercialized the region. As
a result, it has been effect on losing traditional roots, which detrimental
loss for the nation.
Based on the discussion
presented above, the pros and cons of tourism co-exist. Therefore, society and
government have to preserve historic heritage and the environment from damage.
By the implementation of regulation, efforts need to be made maintain our
precious resources for the future generation.
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