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International tourism has brought about enormous benefits to many places. At the same time, there is concern about its impact on local inhabitants and environment. Do the disadvantages of international tourism outweigh the advantages. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Tourism
 is one of the booming industries of
current
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 time. International
tourism
 gives
people
 an opportunity to explore cultures worldwide and boosts the local economy.
However
, every coin has two sides,
rampant
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a rampant
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 number of
tourists
 turning up every year disrupts the normal life at the
tourist
 destination.
Hence
, the number of
people
 visiting a place has to be controlled. Globalisation has led to an exponential rise in global
tourism
.
Tourism
 has many advantages
such
 as financial upliftment of the native
people
 of the
tourist
 destination.
Arrival
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 of visitors ensures that the local
people
 get employment as drivers, room service, chefs,etc. Local artists making handicrafts, jewellery get a helping hand from foreign
tourists
.
Such
 employment helps locals to satisfy their basic needs and save money for the future.
For example
, the Indian state of Rajasthan is famous for its Palaces and Bandhani cloth. When international
tourists
 arrive they prefer to stay at the medieval palaces which have been renovated as hotels to experience the grandeur. These palaces employ local
people
 in various services mentioned previously.
People
 insist on buying the Bandhani clothes as a reminder of their journey to India which helps the women who prepare
this
 Bandhani cloth. Despite these advantages, the concerns about disruption of local life and environment cannot be considered invalid. Large throngs of
tourists
 arriving at
tourist
 hotspots
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 the regular life of the native inhabitants in unimaginable ways. The trends suggest that
development
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 of a place at
tourist
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a tourist
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 hotspot makes it dependant on one industry which makes it highly vulnerable. There have been many environmental hazards due to
tourism
 which may lead to
catastrophical
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catastrophic
 events in the future.
For instance
, the Dal Lake of Jammu and Kashmir in India is now
completeley
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completely
 polluted by the
waste water
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wastewater
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 from the shikaras. The owners of these shikaras primarily entertain
tourists
 for a living. To conclude, international
tourism
 should be allowed only to the extent that our decisions should not come to haunt us in the
furure
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future
.
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