Tourism Advantages and Disadvantages

Nowadays, tourism is becoming one of the most attractive sectors in many countries in the world. Many people travel a lot yearly, a large number of companies invest much money in this field because of its benefits. It may seem that tourism brings only benefits, but further consideration shows that it also has disadvantages.
It can be admitted that tourism offers many advantages. The most obvious advantages is generating huge amounts of money which contributes considerably to the economic growth of an area. By attracting people from almost everywhere, the area can get much money in order to develop the other essential public services such as hospitals and schools. Another advantage is giving the citizen of the area the chance to escape poverty and attain a higher living standard. Developing tourism services means that more infrastructure such as roads, hotels and leisure facilities are built; therefore, more jobs in all levels are created. Thanks to it, the average living standard of people increases well and at the same time unemployment rate is on the decrease.
However, exploiting the resource has some disavantages, too. The quick developing speed of this field can cause the environmental destruction. The more tourists come to the area, the more pollution they bring to. Concurrently, some large multinational corporations run after their profit despite of ruining the environment. For example, they cut down the forest, destroy the natural lanscape in order to build hotels, restaurants for their business. As a result, the natural environment would be threaten. In addition, exploiting the tourist industry can lead to the cutural degradation. Sometimes foreigners act with no respect to national traditions, for example, the behavior of European women in Eastern countries. They bring the bad influence to the community which is not conformity with the local custom.
Everything always has two sides: good and bad point and so does tourism. To my way of thinking, tourism