Understanding the World of Tourism: Positive and Negative Impacts on Economy, Environment, and Socio-Cultural Aspects

Understanding the World of Tourism

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Tourism is an act or a process in which people spending their time away from the home
in pursuance of recreation, relaxation as well as pleasure. The tourism industry is a businesses
which directly provide goods and services to facilitate pleasure as well as leisure activities away
from the home environment. The tourism industry is important to boost the economy revenue. It
also creates thousands of job as well as develop the infrastructure of a country. The essay report
cover on contemporary tourism, its positive and negative impact on economic, environmental as
well as on socio-cultural. As the contemporary tourism is a current tourist who is interested in
grabbing the opportunities to do real travelling experience which is based on the connection with
local community. On of the main positive impact of contemporary tourism is that it help in
generating or developing the economic revenue as well as infrastructure.
MAIN BODY
The inspiration to travel is derived when the people wants to satisfied their lives. The
tourist experience is different for every individual as every individual have their own
perspectives for travelling. Therefore, they have different travel preferences. Now, it is a trend to
visiting a popular spot in leisure time is increasing continuously which result in boosting the
tourist industry. As due to pandemic, this industry face huge loss as they are completely closed.
After the pandemic, this industry again start boosting as people start visiting to places were
increased. There are many external or internal factor which affecting the tourism industry in
growing or declining (Tussyadiah and Sigala, 2018). Aside from this, there are various other
factor which are not under the control of human behaviour such as natural calamity. As when
natural calamity arise, it is not in human control but it has huge impact on tourism industry.
Some of the external factor which have an impact on tourism industry includes political, social,
legal, environmental as well as economical aspects. As all these factors are not in control all the
time. Some factors are sometimes in human control but sometime not in human control. But this
affect the tourism industries directly or indirectly. Due to covid-19, the pandemic occur which
has an huge impact on the tourism industry (Araújo and et.al., 2019). The people who are
involved in this industry can face a huge loss in either ways as directly or indirectly. For an
example, they remained unemployed for long time as well as they don't have food or shelter
during the pandemic period. The tourist industry have a higher contribution in the economic
growth or in the gross domestic product of the country. The decreasing the growth of tourism
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