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How can the income generated by tourism benefit the poor and how can we

ensure that tourism does not destroy cultural heritage and traditions?
Nowadays, tourism is unarguably one of the most beneficial industries out of
all. Yet, although tourism industry is undeniably extremely profitable, hardly it
does benefit the poor. Moreover, lots of countries, where tourism is very developed
major part of population suffers from poverty. In addition to mentioned above,
there is a group of people concerned by a possibility of tourism destroying cultural
traditions.
To begin with, is there a way to make tourism profitable for the poor?
Overall, there are some ways that would provide benefit for the poor from tourism.
Firstly, government could reward hotels for employing people suffering
from poverty and struggling to find a proper job. Usually, such jobs don’t require
some unique skills, so after a rather short course employees would be ready to
work.
Secondly, rising a bit prices for tourists and proportionally lowering them
for citizens. Such system would be a bit harsh to tourists, yet could definitely help
countries poor citizens. By doing that government would help the poor for whom
prices are often way too high to be affordable.
Regarding preservation of traditions I would propose the government to
support local business, especially the one somehow related to nation’s culture, for
instance, ethnic shops. Then, children could be taught at schools and universities
about traditions being extremely essential for their own nation. Furthermore,
introduction of some new subjects related to national identity would be rather
helpful.
To sum up, I consider that any industry should be profitable not only for the
rich, but also for the poor, because modern society is trying to reach equality, so it
would be completely unfair to create a gap between classes. Also, tourism
shouldn’t affect nation’s traditions and culture, that has been forming for ages.

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