Maria’s writing weekly 5

Do the benefits of tourism outweigh the costs?

With the development of society, more and more people are interested in travelling. Admittedly, travelling can bring enjoyment for people, such as it can broaden people’s horizons and enrich everyone’s experience. But many countries strive to develop their tourism to gain more profits in economy. In this way, it makes serious pollution for environment, many trees are cut and natural view is destroyed. This issue will talk about advantage and disadvantage of tourism outweigh the costs and the method of solving these problem.

First of all, “the tourism is now the world’s largest industry. The World Tourism Council estimates that travel and tourism provides employment for more than 100 million people world wide (that's one in sixteen workers) and is responsible for over 7% of world wide capital investment”(benefits of tourism, http://visitfrasercoast.info/membership/membership/benefits-of-tourism.cfm). According to this sentence, we can see the tourism definitely bring huge benefits for our society. Moreover, tourism can drive other development of relative industries, for instance transportation, hotels, restaurants and the production and selling of local specialties like handicrafts, particular food, and providing plentiful job opportunities for local people. Besides, with the expansion of tourism industry, it can bring along local traditional culture and promote influence of a city or a country.

Nevertheless, the development of tourism bound to influence environment of a place and make numerous pollution. A considerable restaurants, hotels and roads are built in scenic spots to welcome a large number of visitors that come from different countries. It makes huge rubbish that can be seen everywhere. So the environment of scenic spots is destroyed in different extents. For another thing, some local traditional culture is damaged due to the willful change by the local people to cater for taste of visitors.

In a word, tourism has both the positive and negative effects to develop countries. It seems to me that a country should be balance both two side to find method solving these problem to achieve balance of ecosystem. For example it should be reduce the number of visitors and stop to build large scenic spots. The government pays more attention to protect local environment and culture rather than only in order to increase their economic profits when developing the tourism industry.

Reference:

Benefits of tourism,

http://visitfrasercoast.info/membership/membership/benefits-of-tourism.cfm