“Tourism Today (Facts and Challenges)”

1.      Positive and negative effects of tourism

A.    Positive:

·     Creates employment opportunities for local people.

·     Promotes cultural awareness and can help preserve local culture and
traditions.

·     Income from tourists can be used to develop local infrastructure and
services.

·     Foreign currency can help local people.

·     Natural features that attract tourists in the first place can be
protected using income from tourism.

B.     Negative:

·      Tourism can have a negative environmental impact. This is at a range
of scales. The increase in air travel has contributed towards
increased carbon dioxide emissions. On a local level natural features
that attract tourists are themselves under threat due to human
actions.

·      Often local people are employed in low skill, poorly paid work in
unsatisfactory working conditions.

·      Travel agents, airline companies and hoteliers benefit more than local
companies when holidays are booked to destinations in LEDCs
companies based in MEDCs set up luxury hotels in LEDCs. The profits
usually return to MEDCs. They also create more competition for locally
run guest houses.

·      It can destroy local culture and traditions.

2.      Kind of Jobs in Tourism Industry

1.      Tour Guides

2.      Drivers

3.      Travel Consultant

4.      Translator

5.      Travel Agent

6.      Amusement and recreation attendant

7.      Lifeguard

8.      Recreation worker

3.      Recent event effected the tourism industry

·         Six tourists from Spain have been raped by a group of mask man in Acapulco, Mexico. The weakness of security in Acapulco makes travelers moved to Cancun and Los Cabos Gained favor to enjoy their vacation.

4.      Opinion about an object of tourism has a positive or a negative influence in our country

As an object of tourism, I can make sure every place has positive and negative influences for our country. For example, Bali. We have known that Bali has beautiful panoramas and cultures. The positive sides are we can attract tourists to visit Bali and make Bali become well known in every country. The negative side of it is the fading of our cultures because so many eastern cultures are influencing in Bali. Indonesian people, especially who live in Bali, are following eastern life-style and then slowly forgetting our own cultures.

5.      Country that I would like to visit the most.

I would like to visit Japan. Why? I like their cultures, foods, songs and even I like their language as well. Neat and clean landscape, technological advance, strong culture and custom, many old buildings and unique tourism objects make me want to come there.

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