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Essay Question: Is tourism having a positive or negative impact on the countries and
locations that tourists visit?
Introducti
Tourism can be beneficial to destination countries and locations that tourists visit
since it is a source of income to both local and governments. However, as this essay
on
will argue, at times, tourism can have negative impacts on the destinations.
Argument 1
Argument 2
Bruner et al. (1994) note that with increased interaction with Western
tourists the Maasai people have increasingly abandoned their heritage,
including the abandoned for their traditional clothing in favor of Western
clothing.
Boley, B. B. (2015). To travel or not to travel? Both have implications for sustainable
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Coria, J., & Calfucura, E. (2012). Ecotourism and the development of indigenous communities: The
good, the bad, and the ugly. Ecological Economics, 73, 47-55.
Caust, J., & Vecco, M. (2017). Is UNESCO World Heritage recognition a blessing or burden?
Evidence from developing Asian countries. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 27, 1-9.
Lepp, A. (2008). Tourism and dependency: An analysis of Bigodi village, Uganda. Tourism
Management, 29(6), 1206-1214.
Stern, N., Peters, S., Bakhshi, V., Bowen, A., Cameron, C., Catovsky, S., ... & Edmonson, N.
(2006). Stern Review: The economics of climate change (Vol. 30, p. 2006). London: HM treasury.