Essay On Benefits Of Tourism

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 age 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. (From native Costa Rican)

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 truly beneficial for countries?

Tourism, strictly speaking, `is travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family or business purposes, usually for a limited duration.’ This definition covers most areas if tourism however not all because nowadays people travel for different reasons.

I don 't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren 't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary. — Paul Theroux

I believe that this statement is completely biased because it is referring to tourism from only one

Negative impacts from tourism occur when the level of visitor use is greater than the environment 's ability to cope with this use within the acceptable limits of change. Uncontrolled conventional tourism poses potential threats to many natural areas around the world. It can put enormous pressure on an area and lead to impacts such as soil erosion, increased pollution, discharges into the sea, natural habitat loss, increased pressure on endangered species and heightened vulnerability to forest fires. It often puts a strain on water resources, and it can force local populations to compete for the use of critical