Essay On Positives And Negatives Of Tourism

From my childhood, I always love to go somewhere special. On the weekends, I usually ask my parents to go on a tour. So I have toured many cities in Korea and overseas. Tourism is consisting of many different activities such as visiting historic places, museum, and sightseeing cultural attractions. It is obvious that tourism bring lots of money and employment opportunities for local people. Spain, Greece, and Italy are good examples of countries grew wealthy by tourism. But I have recognized that the tourism brings negative effects at the same time. Tourism is not always beneficial because of these three reasons: environmental impact, destruction of local culture, and damage of cultural attractions.
First of all, environmental impact is a major problem. It is happening all around the world by many careless tourists. When tourists visit some tourist attractions, they do not care about the environment, but just concentrate on their tour. They throw trashes all over the floor, smoke in the woods, and even take pictures of themselves on the grass. Too many tourists ruin the environment and some said that “we are innocent because we

They just do what they want to; not realizing the historical heritages may be demolished in consequence of these actions. Stebbins (1996) stated that “Cultural tourism is a special interest tourism based on the search for and participation in new and deep cultural experiences, whether aesthetic, intellectual, emotional, or psychological. It is not vandalism and barbarism destroying our wealthy historical properties” (p. 88) Major companies are one of the factors destroying the attractions because of their profits. They build accommodations, restaurants and convenience stores near the attractions. From tourists’ point of view, these facilities are convenient, but the local merchants suffer from the