▶ Your Answer : Various opinions may exist over the
argument whether the government should improve the safety by hiring more police
or improve the appearance by repairing the old buildings and streets, in order
to attract more tourists. As far as I am concerned, I am in complete agreement
with that the government should improve the safety to attract more tourists
rather than improve the appearance of the city. The two ideas stated below will
be the evidence to support my views.
First of all, the safety is the first
factor when tourists decide the place to go. Since the criminal rate of all
over the world is increasing and it became a major problem of the city, tourists
consider it seriously when they make a travel plan. They check the new articles
whether there was a terror recently or even check the office of the diplomacy
if they recommend people not to travel around a specific area or the country. Therefore,
by ensuring a safety for the travelers, a country or city can attract more
people to travel their city. Let me take my own experience as an example. My
professor suggested his students to go with him to the Saint Petersburg to
attend a big music festival. It was a great opportunity for me to learn about
the Russian culture and meet new people who are the experts in my field. Then,
when I was about to send an application for the festival, a serious subway
terror was occurred in the Saint Petersburg. I was very surprised and afraid to
go there, even though my professor tried to pursue me with the fact that that
kind of terror is less likely to happen again within few months. Even my
parents in Korea were surprised and called me not to send the application. Consequently,
I decided not to go to the festival since I knew that I cannot indeed enjoy the
city with the fear of being hurt.
In addition, guaranteeing the safety of the
city makes the city more hospitable place to the tourist. People tend to become
hostile if the environment they live is not safe enough. However, if they feel
the city is secure place to live, they relax themselves and become more favorable
to the strangers since they don’t have to consider them as a threat. As a
result, the more tourist will feel that they were welcome by the citizens. A
few weeks ago, I happened to read a tweet on Twitter regarding this issue. It
was about the two cities that the person who wrote that recently visited. A
significant number of people replied that the people in the safer city was much
kinder than the people in the less safe city. Even more surprising for me was
that the interest people showed in this issue. The tweet was heavily retweeted
since the message resonated the Twitter users and formed a bond of sympathy
between them. This clearly indicates that if the city is safer, the more people
will be favorable to other people which result in the more tourists on the
city.
For the reasons mentioned above, I think
the government should increase the safety by hiring more police to attract the
tourists. |