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Tourism has been develped rapidly in recently years, and it become more and more inportant in world economy. In today, tourism has became one of the largest export industries in the world (Roos,2011). A research of World Tourism Organization shows that from 1950 to 2005, international tourist traffic rose from 25 million travelers a year to over 800 million. In 2009, the international tourism industry generated $852 billion. What’s more, according to the research of the World bank, in some developing countries, the tourism had became indispensible, for example, in Cambodia, Morocco and Jamaica , between 10 and 15 percent of the gross domestic product come from tourism (GDP) So, with the development of tourism, some arguments about the adventages and disadventages of developing tourism had arised. There is no doubt that tourism is of great benefit to the economy, Comfort(2005) states that develop tourism will generate demand for labour, and remarkablely boost the local economy. Wilson(2007) believes that the existence of easy-going, ricn travelers enable the local people to learn new valuable skill and open more new businesses. But there are some people hold diferent point of view. Smith,Jones and Ardley (2001) argue that the tourism created the badly-paid, seasonal jobs in holiday hotel, and there are many people work with long hours and under a insecurity conditions. There are some potential threats, natural or human disaters may result in the low amount of visitors coming, leaving numerous of unemployed people. In addition, arrival of affluent tourists has been an encouragement for crime prostitution and other bad phenomenons which we do not want to see.(Wilson, 2007)

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Roos, D. (n.d.) What is sustainable tourism? Retrieved from http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/sustainable-tourism.htm.

Comfort, J. (2005, December 12) Tourism in the Economy. The Times, p. 12.

Smith, A. (2001). The Effects of Tourism. Sydney: Jones and