International tourism has brought enormous benefits to many places. At the same time, there is concern about its impact on local  inhabitants ant the environment. Do the disadvantages of international tourism outweigh the advantages?

The given bar graph illustrates the

amount

of consumption of four different types of meat in the USA between 1955 to 2012. Overall, it is clear that the

amount

of broiler consumed in the USA demonstrated an upward trend, whereas that of turkey was relatively stable.

In addition

, the

amount

of beed remained the highest in most of the given

years

. Looking

first

at beef and broilers, these two types of meats demonstrated a different trend. Beef stood at 58 in 1995 and peaked at 90 in 1978;

however

, in the following

years

, the number started to decline and eventually fell to 52 in 2012. As for broilers, it witnessed a gradual growth, climbing from 15 in 1961 to 53 in 2012. Moving onto pork and turkey, the

amount

of pork experienced a frequent fluctuation; whereas, the figure roughly remained at 50 throughout the given

years

. With regard to turkey, the number observed a slight growth from 5 in 1961 to 15 in 1989, and remained relatively stable in the following

years

, eventually after experiencing a marginal decrease, the figure fell to 12 in 2012.