Adverse Effect of Drug Trafficking & Prostitution on Malaysian Tourism

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Issue Selected Adverse Impact of Drug Trafficking & Prostitution on Sustainability of
Malaysian Tourism
Point of the Article: Drug Trafficking & Prostitution Affects the Sustainability of Tourism
badly in Malaysia.
Significance (Key findings): Negative effects of Drug & Prostitution on Malaysian Tourism
Tile: Adverse Effect of Drug Trafficking & Prostitution on Malaysian Tourism
Introduction
The main aim of this report is to provide a brief idea about the adverse impact of drug
trafficking & prostitution on the sustainability of Malaysian tourism. This paper also discusses
the impact of drug use and prostitution by the tourist on the society and environment of
Malaysia. Malaysia is considered as one of the best tourist spot among all the beautiful tourist
places present across the globe. Attracted by the natural beauty and charm thousands of
foreigners has visited there regularly. This has immense impact on raising Malaysian economic
and financial status and securing the profit level of the nation. As per the statistical report of
2013, more that 16.7 million of foreigners from different nations has visited and helped to gain
the monetary profit. Beside all the above -mentioned benefits this growing popularity of tourism
has put adverse effects of social, environmental and ecological balance of Malaysia (Kassim,
2017). According to the local residents of Malaysia, visitors often seems to perform different
criminal activities, indulge in spreading different life endangering diseases like HIV/ AIDS.
Drug trafficking, smuggling are practiced by different tourists visited to the said place. Pollution
level has reached to high position due to the huge number of tourist visitors while during the
time of their visit (Nejati, Mohamed & Omar, 2014). They often promotes the concept of

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smuggling, has committed different criminal activities like murder, suicide, and often destroy the
cultural heritage and environmental beauty of Malaysia (Ismail, Razak & Ismail, 2013). Another
four articles has analyzed in this paper with the purpose of providing detailed overview about the
negative impact of tourism on the socio-cultural and environmental condition of Malaysia.
Discussion
To provide a detailed report about the socio-cultural and environmental impact of tourism
in Malaysia, four article has discussed below:
Selected Literature
1. Karim, A. Z., & Rokis, R. (2017). People’s Perception of the Socio-Cultural and
Environmental Impacts of Tourism in Malaysia: A Community-Reflective
Study. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 4(14).
“This paper shows that Malaysia has considered as the best tourist spot among all tourist
places present across the globe. The paper also discusses about community’s view of socio-
cultural and environmental impact of tourism in Malaysia (Karim & Rokis, 2017). Tourism
industry has noted a remarkable growth in Malaysia. Different surveys and researches have
conducted for determining the real socio-cultural and environmental effect of tourism in the
said country. It has derived that drug trafficking, murders, prostitution and other illegal
activities increased and put adverse impact on both the society and cultural background of
Malaysia.

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Key Findings:
The paper is solely based on the direct surveillance of the perception of different citizens
belong to the nation. Considering the growing negative socio-cultural and environmental impacts
in mind, Malaysian government has conducted different research programs and surveys to
recognize the real cause of the said problems. After analyzing all the reports derived from
different surveys, that tourism has both negative and positive impact on the social, cultural and
environmental facts of Malaysia (Leng, Khan & Rahim, 2014). Attracted by the natural beauty
and pleasant environment huge number of people from different foreign countries have visited
there.
This growth has helped to enhance the economic and financial standard of Malaysia. People
belongs to different community present in the said country has become happy with this growing
rate of tourism, as this helps to generate wide range of job opportunity and has helped them to
improve their standard of living (Amin et al., 2013). Besides, all the above-mentioned
advantages or benefits, there are some adverse effects of tourism that gradually raises different
problems for all citizens of Malaysia. As per the report it has been noticed that people who used
to visit this country for spending good times or holidays has practiced different activities that
generate trouble for Malaysian citizens. It has noted that drug trafficking, smuggling, murders
and other criminal activities have raised and even the concept of prostitution has increased
(Hampton, 2009). For this reasons, this country has affected by the growing rate of different life
hacking diseases like HIV/AIDS. While demonstrating the problems of growing tourism, few
Malaysians said that to provide good transport facilities government has developed different
express highways and national roads by cutting trees and forest. This growing rate of
deforestation has put negative impact on the environment of the said country. Several measures