With the development of the society, more and more people want to travle around all over the world to enjoying life. It goes a saying that every coin have two sides. There is no consensus of opinions among people about travelling. Some people are in favour of the view that tourism have a lot of benfits, while others take an opposite side, firmly believing that tourism would bring great negative effect. As far as I am concerned, both of them are right. The reasons are obvious.
Some people are in favour of the idea of tourism. They point out the fact that there are a number of benefits of tourism for both the tourist and the host destination. On the one hand, the tourism industry includes many different areas, so it also creats a lot of job positions in many different areas. With tourism comes travel agencies, hotels, restaurants and much more. All of these provide a lot of positions for local people. On the other hand, the intoduction and development of the tourism gives local people an opportunity for economic and educational growth. In addition, it allows both the tourist and the local community a chance to experience other cultures, which broadens understanding.
However, other people stand on a different ground. They consider that travelling has great negative effect. Although tourism can be very beneficial, especially economically, it is harmful to environment. Many resorts, especially large resorts, are very rarely environmentally friendly, and in turn do not normally attract an environmentally conscious clientele. Not only does heavy construction aid erosion (especially in tropical climates) but essentially, construction and development equals pollution. Tourist generated pollution comes from things such as rental car exhaust and oil leaks, machinery used to build hotels, commercial airplanes, and airport construction just to name a few (McLaren, 1998). In addition to tourism's environmental impacts on host destinations, there are also many important cultural issues to consider. Some of these issues result from the environmental impacts that carry over into the community. According to NGO Third World Network president, Martin Khor, globalization is the leading threat to local communities especially in the global, (McLaren, 1998).
To sum up, tourism have both advantage and disadvantage. If we can exploit the destination of tourism resonably, the negative effect of tourism may be low.
Refeneces: http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/geog/chanepl/4500/1999_fall/holderfield/disadvantages.html
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/geog/chanepl/4500/1999_fall/holderfield/ecotourism.htm
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Sylvia,
ReplyDeleteWhile your essay is clear and well written overall, there is a disturbing amount of plagiarism here. The following example:
"Large resorts are very rarely environmentally friendly, and in turn do not normally attract an environmentally conscious clientele. Not only does heavy construction aid erosion (especially in tropical climates) but essentially, construction and development equals pollution. Tourist generated pollution comes from things such as rental car exhaust and oil leaks, machinery used to build hotels, commercial airplanes, and airport construction just to name a few (McLaren, 1998). "
is taken directly from this website:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090628230020AABvpVj
There are no references to this site and the reference you do include is just copied, without a full reference at the end of the text.
Plagiarism is unacceptable in academic writing and will result in a failing mark, as well as possible expulsion from university. be very careful with this in the future.