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Effects Of Tourism

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Most countries in the world rely on tourism to help their economy. The tourism sector is expanding at a fast pace, which results in creating more job opportunities, monetary improvement, external transaction and foreign investment. “When there is large contrast between the culture of the receiving society and the origin culture, then it is likely that the impacts will be greatest’’. (Burns and Holden, 1995). The socio-cultural impacts of tourism are the effects on regional society of having direct and indirect relations with the tourist and its management. There is a variation that occur in the structure of society, expression & style, custom and ethics, heritage; as a visitor takes back some of the new habits, a way of life when they …show more content…

Secondly, western influence is also regarded as one of the impact of tourism (socially and culturally). People tend to adapt too many changes in their own social structure, perception, practice, and activities. This influence is found very deep-seated and robust on an individual and its community. Furthermore, there are both positive and negative impacts of it. For example: on the positive side, a young person is found to be confident in using new advanced machinery, independent thinking development, performing functions, getting married in different culture, learning more new languages than their own mother language are all affected by westernization whereas on the other aspect, some people try to misuse this influence in a negative ways by involving in illegal activities such as by taking drugs, truency, prostitution, exploiting their own culture and society. Hence, adoption of western ways are exceptional upto some extent if act accordingly but one should not always appreciate and enjoy the benefit they have in a wrong way. (Khanal, A 2012).

Another impact is said to be on an economy, which is highly influenced by tourism for the development of the country. On the positive aspect, there are a lot of benefits such as jobs opportunity, distribution of capital, travel industry boom, economy boost that not only develops the country but also the people and their

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