雅思写作素材拓展:旅游业发展的利弊
Pros and Cons of Tourism
Pros:
1. It is regarded as a pillar of key local economic development.
2. The booming tourist industry has created more job openings. Many peoplehave said good-bye to poverty through involvement in tourist businesses.
3. The tourist industry has played a positive role in meeting the culturalneeds of the public, carrying forward national culture and achieving thesustainable development of resources.
4. Tourism helps to better introduce the country to foreigners and showcasethe brilliant history and culture to the outside world.
5. Tourism helps to improve the investment environment so as to attractmore foreign investors.
6. Tourists can take pleasure in the magnificent natural landscape,appreciate the superior workmanship of ancient artists and enjoy a variety oflocal delicacies (specialties). Many tourist attractions offer a wealth ofhistorical relics, fascinating scenery and interesting local culture.
7. Tourism helps to promote the catering trade, transportation service andcommerce.
8. Tourism is the world’s largest and faster growing industry. According torecent statistics, tourism provides 10 percent of the world’s income and employsalmost one-tenth of world’s workforce. By the year 2010, these numbers willdouble. All considered, tourism’s actual and potential economic impact isastounding.
9. Tourism encourages the preservation of identify, pride and value in ourliving conditions and the cultural legacy of generations in danger ofextinction.
10. Tourism contributes to the revival of customs and traditions.
11. Tourism brings new money into an area and generates jobs, income andtax revenues.
Cons:
1. Contact with and assimilation of other cultures will reduce theuniqueness of one’s own culture and make the world less colorful thanbefore.
2. Undermine local traditions and ways of life.
3. Tourism may cause serious environmental pollution.