Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries and contributes a great deal to economies around the world. However, the damage tourism can cause to local cultures and the environment is often ignored. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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tourism generates huge sums of money and for many countries in the world it is the main resource for the government budget. The local economies all around the world are very dependent on the influx of travellers every year, particularly with regard to local employment. Countries like Cuba

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have a significant number of people employed in the hotel industry

as a result

. At the outset, some people argue that the major part of the income generated is being channelled not to the local economy but to the multinational companies that supply transport to the visitors to get to their destinations, hotel chains and to

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shopping outlets that offer hospitality to them.

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, critics say that the ecological situation in the world is getting worse and worse, and, of course, partly it happens because the number of international flights has skyrocketed

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if we compare it with those of 50 years ago. There has been

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by environmentalists that the amount of pollution emitted by aeroplanes has more than tripled.

In addition

, the travellers are becoming more and more capricious, they are not just satisfied with ancient architecture, they want something exclusive, like unique places of vital eco-system, especially those fragile areas of Antarctica.

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some folks prefer to ignore the negative impact on nature, nowadays we face a totally different reality. The nature surrounding and dwellers who live near the airports experience on themselves the effects of noise and air pollution.

On the other hand

, the tourists generate tons of waste, which has a deep impact on the local urban image. In many cases, they are just ignorant and don’t respect the rule of the place they visit.

For instance

, some persons who live close to the beach leave some waste food and plastic bottles in the sand and don’t even worry about recollecting them afterwards.

Nonetheless

, I think it is wrong to claim that those problems are being totally ignored. There are many eco-friendly organizations which are seriously concerned about the modern situation, and they do their best to make people aware of the impact they do on nature, by setting up different forums and meetings. As the market tends to determine how things develop, we can only hope that the demand for the form of responsible tourism continues to grow.