What are the positive and negative impact of tourism on the world?

Question

What are the positive and negative impact of tourism on the world?

Answer 1

Positive- it provides jobs for some but on the other hand, you get s*x tourism and things like that going on

Answer 2

+ve-  its a grt form of revenue for the government and also ICREASES THE NATION'S PRESTIGE.

-ve:- affects the historical monuments..like Taj Mahal..and other heritage sites......etc and also results in significant amount of pollution by means of usage of plastic,,,,,,,etc

Answer 3

Positives:

If you stay in places for a reasonable length of time, you can learn about other cultures, gain an appreciation of the world's diversity and how others live and perhaps learn new positive practices that you can bring home with you.

It is good for the jobs and economy of the place being visited because people come and spend money there. However, if the tourism is high impact and unsustainable it will be damaging to the economy further down the track when the area is not as pristine.

Negatives:

It involves A LOT of consumption of fossil fuels. Aeroplanes use heaps of fuel and cause lots of air pollution. Then you will often use buses, cars, trains etc when you get there. Big hotels, swimming pools etc have a negative impact on the local environment from wastes and pollutants produced, altering the local ecology, using water resources, using energy.

The best kind of tourism I think is one where you are not doing the high pace sight seeing hotel to hotel, bus, taxis, airports etc, but where you spend a while in the one spot, camping or staying with a family, go for bushwalks, doing WWOOFing (willing workers on organic farms, google it if interested), low impact type tourism. Go to places nearer to where you live - they can be just as amazing!

Leave only footprints.

Answer 4

With the whole world easily accessible to everybody we can see more of the people and culture of other lands. This should have a positive impact, improving our understanding of other races and their beliefs. Ufortunately the demands for our creature comforts bring about the destruction of the very thing that we go to see partly due to the greed of big business and partly our own stupidity. We need to turn this around and try harder to preserve more of our planet for future generations.

Answer 5

Economically +ve.

Environmentally -ve.

Where humans go the rot sets in.

Answer 6

positives are-benefitial to local bussiness

negatives are-a once untroden beautiful tranquil corner of the world has been exploited to generate money for the tourism industry! is nothing to remain sacred?