Is mass tourism a course or a Lessing?
Nowadays lots of people visit foreign countries to widen their knowledge about other communities and spend their holidays in warm countries. For years a travel industry becomes a global issue, but it also could be a deliverance for local communities.
Firstly, the areas, which are visited by tourists, develops quicker than the other ones. Thus, there are more and more cafes, restaurants, gift shops and other places where the tourists might spend their money. As the tourists are interested in staying in the centres offering various facilities, the local government takes care of their traditions and monuments. In addition, the inhabitants are able to find a job in the large touristic centers.
Nevertheless, tourism has many weak points. First of all, lots of prehistoric unique places are destroyed yearly only because of thousands of people who visit these places every year. In addition, the people do not care of what they admire, watch or walk on. They both chisel their names on the rocks or trees and take the piece of cay as a gift or a souvenir. Talking about tourism industry in general, it must be said that developing tourism makes all nice-looking places turn into similar resorts therefore it does not matter where you are going to travel for - they just all look the same.
To sum up, tourism has lots of advantages and disadvantages. It seems we have a choice whether we want to save the virgin nature and places or support this big industry and destroy more and more beautiful country sides. In my opinion, unfortunately, we cannot stop tourism development.