The Impact of Tourism on Host Countries

Positive: 1, increase foreign exchange income and balance international payments;

2. Conducive to the withdrawal of funds;

3. Increase the economic income of the destination;

4. Promote the development of related industries;

5. Increase government tax revenue;

6. Balance regional economic development and narrow regional differences;

7. Increase employment opportunities.

Negative: 1, which may cause price increase;

2. Adverse changes that may affect the industrial structure;

3. Excessive dependence on tourism will affect the stability of the national economy.

Second, the social and cultural impact:

Positive: 1, which helps to improve the national quality;

2. It helps to enhance international mutual understanding;

3. To promote the protection and development of national culture;

4. To promote the exchange and development of science and technology;

5. It helps to improve the living environment.

Negative: 1, bad "demonstration effect". That is, different values, moral concepts and lifestyles brought by different tourists will spread and penetrate in tourist destinations, which will have a "demonstration effect" on destinations;

2. Interfere with the life of the destination residents;

3. The local culture has been improperly commercialized.

Third, the environmental impact:

Positive: 1, maintain, repair and revise historical buildings and estimate sites;

2. Increase the number of leisure and entertainment places and related facilities;

3. Improve infrastructure such as roads and transportation services;

4. Make the environmental sanitation of tourist reception area be valued and maintained.

Negative: 1, reducing local water and air quality and increasing noise;

2. Increasing the population density and traffic jam, resulting in a relatively small living space for local residents;

3. Long-term reception of a large number of visiting tourists will threaten the original features and even life span of local historical sites;

4. Developing large-scale tourism activities will aggravate the damage and destruction to the natural environment and ecosystem;

5. Excessive development and construction of tourist reception facilities.

Hehe ~ it's detailed enough. I majored in tourism. These can be found in our Introduction to Tourism. I hope they can help you.