Eco-Tourism Industry Essay

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MUHAMMAD UMAR SHAH BIN MOHAMMAD 1411170467 DETROIT Practice Test 2 - Writing (Integrated) Tourist industry is important for the development of a country. Eco-tourism is the most rapidly growing segment of the tourist industry. The lecture stated that eco-tourism brings impacts on economic growth. It is true that every development has its own advantages and disadvantages, but, eco-tourism has less impact than other tourism. Opposes from that, the passage says that eco-tourism is only having significant positive results on those particular sites. According to the lecture, eco-tourism requires infrastructure that will harm the environment for the development of the industry. For example, roads need to be built to connect the remote area with outside world. Pollutions will occur such as air pollution and water pollution. Tourist are expected to be environmentally conscious but problem of littering still happen. However, the passage says that eco-tourism serves as a substitute for forms of development that would be more damaging to the environment. Apart from that, the lecture says that eco-tourism will cause exploitation of nature. Government has protected the resources officially but, it can still be exploited by unresponsible person inside the government itself. Corrupted will occur such as bribe and this will cause illegal hunting, cutting down trees and stealing the treasure of rainforest. The development of road will make this easier. But, according to the passage, eco-tourism encourages conservation because the fully trust that put on the government to protect the national treasure. Besides, according to the lecture, local people have more jobs than before the development of eco-tourism. But, after that, more outsider will search for work in the industry. The local people will have lowest paid job available and job available for them is

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