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Positive and Negative Impact of Tourism
The positive and negative impacts of tourism are as follows:
Positive Impact of the Tourism:
- Provides employment opportunities, both skilled and unskilled, because it is a labor-intensive industry
- Generates a supply of needed foreign exchange
- Increases incomes
- Creates increased gross domestic product
- Develops an infrastructure that will also help encourage local commerce and industry
- Can be developed with local products and resources
- Spreads development
- Has a high multiplier impact
- Increases governmental revenues
- Increases educational and cultural horizons and improves feelings of self-confidence
- Improves the quality of life related to a higher level of income and improved standards of living
- Supports to preservation of heritage and tradition
- Justifies environmental protection and improvement
- Provides employment for artists, musicians, and other performing artists because of visitor interest in local culture, thereby enhancing cultural heritage
- Breaks down language barriers, socio cultural barriers, class barriers, racial barriers, political barriers, and religious barriers
- Creates a favorable worldwide image for a destination
- Promotes a global community
- Promotes international understanding and peace
- Development of protected area Conservation of the natural resource
- Develop friendship and understanding
- Build peace among the nation
- Provides wide knowledge about different country.
Negative Impact of Tourism:
- Develops excess demand for resources
- Causes inflation
- Can result in unbalanced economic development
- Creates social problems
- Degrades the natural physical environment, creates pollution, and contributes to global warming
- Increases the incidence of crime, prostitution, and gambling
- Increases vulnerability to economic and political changes
- Threatens family structure
- Commercializes culture, religion, and the arts
- Creates misunderstanding
- Creates conflicts in the host society
- Contributes to disease, economic fluctuation, and transportation problems
- Less priority of domestic product.
- Addiction to the drug: – the addition to the drugs and its measure are easily exported and imported which are very harmful.
- Addiction to the drug: – the addition to the drugs and its measure are easily exported and imported which are very harmful.
- Less priority of domestic product.
Positive and Negative Impact of Tourism
Positive and Negative Impact of Tourism
Positive and Negative Impact of Tourism
