What are the advantages and disadvantages of tourism?

Answer 1

• Tourism is the act of travel for the purpose of not only recreation, but also the provision of services for this act. It might occupy local services such as entertainment, accommodation and catering for tourists. It may seem, that tourism brings only benefits, but further consideration shows that it also has disadvantages.
• Firstly, many countries depend heavily upon travel expenditures by foreigners as a source of taxation and as a source of income for the enterprises. Therefore, the development of tourism is often a strategy to promote a particular region for the purpose of increasing commerce through exporting goods and services.
• Secondly, it provides direct employment for the people associated with occupations in bars and hotels. Thanks to it, the average standard of living of people increases well and at the same time unemployment is on the decrease.
• However, tourists cause environmental damage through forest fires, destruction of sand dunes and pollution. Consequently this serves negatively as increased pollution disturbs local residents and also it may discourage tourists from further entering the country.
• After this, tourism undermines culture by commercializing it and this is often connected with increasing litter, graffiti, vandalism and noise - tourists do not always respect traditional cultures, which is sad but true.
• In general, tourism is an extremely profitable process in loads of countries, especially those in which the process of development continue to depend on this industry because this industry does not require a lot of literacy and also it yields maximum profits with less investment.

Advantages: Creates jobs for locals. Brings in money to the local economy and government. Attracts more people to the area.

Disadvantages: they might steal things from your country. destroy the enviroment. The tourists may litter in your country.

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Tourism is the practice of traveling for pleasure. It is also the business of providing tours and services for tourists. There are lots of advantages and disadvantages of tourism, some of them are,

Advantages
1. More people mean more jobs.
2. More jobs mean less poverty.
3. The potential for scholatic growth, as more tourists come to the islands, the more money is tipped, giving families more money to invest in education.

Disadvantages
1. More traffic in the air, skies, water, roads make for more pollution.
2. Money that could be spent else where is invested in tourism. ie roads, schools,
3. Tourism can cause a greater risk of crime. (More people to prey upon.)
4. Many people in the tourism industry are working long hours and many days, families are not together as much, breaking down the family dynamics

Answer 2

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