Tourism vs Traditions

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Even though tourism helps in sustaining the economy of the country but it is also destroying the traditional values and norms of the country. Nowadays tourism is growing worldwide. People visit different places to see different things. Some them are just keen travelers some are journalists and some of them go for a vacation or working vacation. Every travelers are from different cities and from different countries. To be precise tourist comes to our country and spends foreign currency in the country which increases the economy of the country. Basically tourism aids for the country. Even though tourism affects the tradition of the host countries it also has advantages to the host country. Tourism creates employment opportunities to the local people of the host country. Income from tourists can be used to develop the country by developing new roads, more airports, building new places to attract even more tourist. The foreign currency earned from the tourist can help local people expand their business. Natural features which attracted the tourist in the first place can be protected and preserved using from tourism income. As tourism increases small tourism sectors business also starts growing due to which employment opportunities also increases. Tourism also helps in preservation of cultural heritage as cultural heritage is the main attraction for tourist to visit due to which the host country preserves cultural heritage. Tourism has also helped in lowering the urbanization as many tourism sectors are in rural areas and people are settling at their own village to earn money. But the tourism is putting an end to the tradition of the host country. Tourist needs familiar food products like KFCs, McDonalds or fast food restaurants. Some tourist need similar environment they don’t like to try new things so they need similar kind of food and drinks, hotel chains etc. So
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