Finally essay ---susan

With the recent rapid economic development,the tourism is becoming more popular. “The World Tourism Organization(UNWTO) forecasts that international tourism will continue growing at the average annual rate of 4 %. By 2010, an estimated 937 million trips will be made.”(Jafari, 2006, pg. 237)Some people could easily say that tourism brings a lot of benefits for the society ,environment and economic.However, recently increasing costs is considered by others ,particularly in the environmental damage and cultural conflict.This essay will discuss whether tourism bring more advantages than disadvantages.
First,tourism is helpful for improving all aspects of society,such as quality of life, supporting facilities and services that benefit the whole community. When local government want to attract more tourist ,they do a lot of changes in public infrastructures,such as road ,public transport ,which give local people more convenient.For example,the Jiuzhaigou Valley where is a tourist attraction has a big change in this decade.In the past, local people lived with poor facilities,they had not public transport.On the contrary,now government worked hard in infrastructures for developing the travel industry. The local people enjoy these benefits.Secondly ,tourism plays essential role in economic. It is the fact that tourism brings a lot of dollars from visitor,inputs foreign cash.In addition to ,it not only creates jobs in the tertiary sector, it also encourages growth in the primary and secondary sectors of industry. This is known as the “multiplier effect which in its simplest form is how many times money spent by a tourist circulates through a country's economy.” (Theobald,1998,pg10.) Finally,increasing fund and revenue from tourists give a good support to protect environment and history policy.It is very normal thing that a lot of history places disappear because of lacking of fund investments .

However,some critics have a negative attitude that travel industry on the ground that it has a
number of bad influences in environmental and cultural .On the one hand ,it is reported by media that the government has exploited and destroy a majority of natural surroundings. For instance,there are some golf courses in the countryside for tourists and the needs of water for tourism has led to the local populace having their own water supplies cut or made more difficult or expensive to obtain.Moreover,this is a more serious problem that more and more Air travel result in global warming that change our climate .What is more, It could make poor countries more poverty.(Philip , 2001)On the other hand ,the difference in language ,culture,customs,and life style often result in conflicts between tourists and local residents.People from various countries and regions often have different attitudes towards the same thing or behavior,thus causing further misunderstanding.

In conclusion, Whatever the negative aspects of tourism, it cannot be denied that numerous profit attribute to mass tourism. It is not only improve life quality of local people but also enhance the revenues of government.In fact, many small countries develop very well because of the tourism industry such as Maldives and Nepal .(Navin Gupta, 2001)Moreover, it has a tremendous positive impact in protecting the famous historic places and natural beauty .By comparison with merits and demerits about travel industry ,I firmly held view that tourism brings more benefits outweigh the costs.

References:
Jafari, J. (2006). Creation of the intergovernmental world tourism organization. Annals of Tourism Research, 2, (5), 237

Theobald, William F. (1998). Global Tourism (2nd ed.). Oxford [England]: Butterworth–Heinemann. pp. 10. ISBN 0750640227. OCLC 40330075

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