Impact of Tourism

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Topic: Write the 4-paragraph essay about the impact of tourism development in big cities in Vietnam Vietnam is well-known all over the world because of various culture, many beautiful attractions and friendly people. Therefore, Vietnam attracts millions of tourists every year, especially is in big cities. However, tourism development has had many impacts on developing cities. Tourism impacts can be generally classified into 2 categories with positive and negative impacts. The positive impacts include: job opportunity, infrastructure improvement, economic development and the negative impacts are pollution, high crime rate and braking up traditional culture. First of all, tourism is considered as a sector which brings many positive impacts to cities. The tourism is one of the few intensive sectors of employment. Tourism’s ability to create jobs is one of the main reasons why governments encourage its development. Direct employment in tourism occurs in areas such as hotels, transport operators, travel agencies, tourist attractions, tour guides, government departments and tour operators. Tourism also creates indirect employment in industries not directly associated with the sector, for example in construction, banking, design and transport companies. If tourism has not been developed, many such jobs would not exist. As well as creating jobs, tourism development also contributes to infrastructure improvements in destination areas such as road and rail improvements, airport developments, improvements in telecommunications and utilities... In this way, local people can benefit from improved facilities that are provided for tourists. In addition, economic impact of tourism is an important one to help cities more develop, the direct income for big cities is amount of tourist expenditure for our tourism products and services. The development of tourism attracts more foreign
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