Benefit Of Tourism Essay

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My favourite voyage was when I was ten years old. I toured the whole of Costa Rica. From the lush jungle to the sandy transparent-water beaches. I discovered the most wonderful places of the country, such as the luxuriant Tortuguero thermal waters or the exquisiteness of witnessing a one and a half metre turtle lay eggs. However, due to my littleness I do not remember all aspects of this paradise, but there is one sentence that really stuck to my mind: To travel is the greatest pleasure of life, a country without tourism, is a dead country.
Now that I am older and have the possibility to research and study the topic that I have always been interested in, this phrase flashed into my head and I wondered, to what extent is it true? Is tourism really beneficial for countries?
Tourism, strictly speaking, `is travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family or business purposes, usually for a limited duration.’
If tourism greatly increases there would be numerous ways a country would benefit of this. The rise in tourists would mean that there would have to be more people to fulfil the tourists needs, therefore this will give many more job opportunities in the existing businesses, …show more content…

This is why a country has to invest in money and make jobs in every sector (primary, secondary and tertiary) and various areas within these sectors, and therefore if one of them fails or declines the people in the country can withstand this fall leaning in the

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