Tourism helps the visitors get acquainted with the culture, customs, language and way of life of the local people. The modern life of Indian people are very complex. Tour and holidays brings the much-need relaxation to our mind, body and soul. It refreshes our body and gives back our fitness. The spirit of happiness becomes visible on our beaming faces.
"The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach."
— Martin Jacques
Disadvantages of Tourism
Tourism may cause disruption in socio-economic, cultural setup of a country.Tourists often cause environmental damage, with things like pollution and forest fires. Even if tourists behave responsibly, the sheer number of the them can cause problems. Things like ancient buildings, monuments and temples often struggle to cope with the vast amounts of tourist traffic and suffer wear and tear, or damage.
It may also lead to environmental hazards such as environmental pollution due to use of cigars, plastic bags.
In order to attract more tourists and earn more profits sprawling resorts are built cutting down thousands of casuarinas trees beside sea beaches. These resorts destroy both scenic beauty of the place by paying no attention to local architecture and ecology. Tourism jobs are quite commonly seasonal and insecure with no extra benefits, such as pensions, sick pay, or health care. Some areas can be inundated with visitors during busy times, and then virtually deserted for many months.
As a result of indiscriminate construction of high rises provision of water supply and waste disposal facilitate many fatal ends.The commercialization of culture can undermine the soul of a tourist destination. Local traditions that have a rich cultural heritage are reduced to wearing costumes and putting on acts for the tourists in return for money.
Overuse of natural wealth is a serious problem, tourist overuse of mountain trails resulting in abundance in dumping of waste products, food tins etc.
Damage to wildlife parks is a visible phenomenon, ground vegetation remain devastated under tourists’ shoes, food habits of animal impaired ultimately landscape loses scenic beauty.
Tourism may have damaging socio-cultural effects. Local people demean themselves to earn more or imitate alien culture, new life styles, foreign culture.
Once the natural beauty and manmade beauties are lost tourism loses its charm and attraction and will collapse. So today environment friendly or green tourism are being introduced by tourism industries.
Health tourism (traveling to get medical procedure at lower cost) has it own set of unique challenges, which include: Determining the credential, skills and quality of the facility and personnel. Language communication challenges on topics requiring a lot of details, sometimes even when both parties seemingly speak the same language. Different cultural issues and expectations around health care and the body. Post-treatment complications, after the "tourist" has left the facility.
So we should keep tourism within planned limits and try to avoid ecological imbalance and health hazards. Tourism must not play havoc with traditions and protected societies. New technique, high-teach communication may bring cultural setbacks, degradation to preserved communities.
Tourism can create an imbalance where it becomes so successful that other forms of income generation are neglected and an economic dependence on tourism forms. This is fine in the good times, but can leave the country vulnerable to economic ruin, if it suffers political upheaval, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters, and tourism consequently dips or dries up altogether.
"The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach."
— Martin Jacques
Disadvantages of Tourism
Tourism may cause disruption in socio-economic, cultural setup of a country.Tourists often cause environmental damage, with things like pollution and forest fires. Even if tourists behave responsibly, the sheer number of the them can cause problems. Things like ancient buildings, monuments and temples often struggle to cope with the vast amounts of tourist traffic and suffer wear and tear, or damage.
It may also lead to environmental hazards such as environmental pollution due to use of cigars, plastic bags.
In order to attract more tourists and earn more profits sprawling resorts are built cutting down thousands of casuarinas trees beside sea beaches. These resorts destroy both scenic beauty of the place by paying no attention to local architecture and ecology. Tourism jobs are quite commonly seasonal and insecure with no extra benefits, such as pensions, sick pay, or health care. Some areas can be inundated with visitors during busy times, and then virtually deserted for many months.
As a result of indiscriminate construction of high rises provision of water supply and waste disposal facilitate many fatal ends.The commercialization of culture can undermine the soul of a tourist destination. Local traditions that have a rich cultural heritage are reduced to wearing costumes and putting on acts for the tourists in return for money.
Overuse of natural wealth is a serious problem, tourist overuse of mountain trails resulting in abundance in dumping of waste products, food tins etc.
Damage to wildlife parks is a visible phenomenon, ground vegetation remain devastated under tourists’ shoes, food habits of animal impaired ultimately landscape loses scenic beauty.
Tourism may have damaging socio-cultural effects. Local people demean themselves to earn more or imitate alien culture, new life styles, foreign culture.
Once the natural beauty and manmade beauties are lost tourism loses its charm and attraction and will collapse. So today environment friendly or green tourism are being introduced by tourism industries.
Health tourism (traveling to get medical procedure at lower cost) has it own set of unique challenges, which include: Determining the credential, skills and quality of the facility and personnel. Language communication challenges on topics requiring a lot of details, sometimes even when both parties seemingly speak the same language. Different cultural issues and expectations around health care and the body. Post-treatment complications, after the "tourist" has left the facility.
So we should keep tourism within planned limits and try to avoid ecological imbalance and health hazards. Tourism must not play havoc with traditions and protected societies. New technique, high-teach communication may bring cultural setbacks, degradation to preserved communities.
Tourism can create an imbalance where it becomes so successful that other forms of income generation are neglected and an economic dependence on tourism forms. This is fine in the good times, but can leave the country vulnerable to economic ruin, if it suffers political upheaval, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters, and tourism consequently dips or dries up altogether.
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Most people either never even consider this, or if they do, they don’t want to think about it, because a vacation is supposed to be stress-free fun, and no one should feel guilty about taking a vacation. But in reality, there is a downside to tourism – the places you’re visiting, no matter how magical they may seem, have residents who live there all year round, and they, the businesses, environment, everything, are all affected by tourism. Today, we’re discussing the negative side of tourism, and how the throngs of tourists can have a detrimental effect on their dream destination. Hopefully, we don’t scare you away from traveling after reading this article, but if it does freak you out a bit, then this course on traveling with confidence, and this article on packing for travel should be enough to get you excited about it again.
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