What is the benefit of tourism for local people? Well, Tourism is now a
huge contributor to the economies of most countries. Tourism industries
can bring money, job vacancy and advancement especially to developing
regions. However, this money often goes into the pockets of foreign
investors, and only rarely benefits for local people.
Tourism industries will not give much benefit for local people if, for
example, multinational hotel chains don't care about the surrounding
nature when they build new hotels. This can cause many social, cultural
and geographical problems. Some local people may get job and money from
that International hotel chain. However in case of missing that
opportunity, some of them still have their own environment.
Moreover, some facts show that tourists tend to go, visit and spend
their money in restaurants, bars and even luxury hotels of that
multinational chains. They less go to such places; restaurant, bar,
hotel, shop which are owned by local people. This can prevent the local
people's business from becoming even larger.
Most important thing, tours or excursions of tourism have little effect
on nature. Even it can disrupt or destroy ecosystems and environments,
and if it does, the local people will get the risk.
So the local government policies should be put in place to ensure that
tourism will make the benefit spreading widely. The policies should
guarantee that tourism will not cause any harm to any local people or
places.