Tourism has emerged as one of the biggest industries of this decade, but its disadvantages cannot be overlooked. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

It is often argued that

tourism

has climbed to the top of the industries in

this

decade, but its downsides cannot be ignored.

Although

I personally disagree that the

disadvantages

of

tourism

cannot be overlooked because for some countries

tourism

Is their biggest money grabber. For a

country

like

Thailand

where

tourism

is our biggest income, the advantages definitely outweigh the

disadvantages

so it can be overlooked. If one day, tourists suddenly decided not to come to

Thailand

anymore the

country

will suffer a fatal blow financially. Take the Coronavirus pandemic ,

for example

,

Thailand

's GDP dropped around 5-10% because there are no tourists not only did it affect the GDP but natives and merchants were

also

affected as well because travellers are their main source of income as soon as they stop

coming

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their income stopped as well. Some even lost their jobs because the business suffer a loss and had to reduce the number. Most of

Thailand

's major cities are based on

tourism

as well ,especially Phuket and Pattaya. Imagine these two cities without travellers, hotel industries and restaurants will suffer a great loss because the majority of their customers are foreigners and it will cause tons of hotels to go bankrupt which will

further

affect the whole

country

's economy and currency. To conclude, I disagree that the

disadvantages

of

tourism

cannot be overlooked. For countries where

tourism

are their biggest earner like

Thailand

because it creates job opportunities for its citizen and supports the

country

's economy, It is undeniably better to overlook the

disadvantages

rather than suffer from financial losses.