Advantages Disadvantages

1. There is provision of job opportunities. 1. Tourism can cause environmental damage

Developing tourism in developing countries with risk like erosion, pollution, lost of
provides much needed employment for the natural habitats and forest fires.
society.
2. Cultural clash may happen, for instance, a
2. Local people can get the positive effects local wedding is more considered as a mock
by working to receive new trending goods or ceremony (at a price: it is bought and sold),
products brought by foreigners. the sacred dances become the money
spinners, or the native dress is now
3. The better improvements of infrastructure considered backward.
can be experienced by the resident population
of the tourist destination. For example, public 3. Foreign company employs ready mode-
transport, shopping, and entertainment skilled foreigners as workers rather than
facilities. employing local people. Besides, foreign
company only provides low quality jobs or
4. Tourism becomes sources of income. low skilled jobs for local people.
Developing tourism may bring in money. The
income generated can make up a significant 4. Visitors demand imported food that burden
proportion of private, local, and economic local farmer.
incomes for developing countries.
5. The indigenes (native people) cannot
5. Tourism is a way to promote cross cultural posses the affluence paraded by tourists since
awareness. the tourism merely fans the embers of
discontent for the native peoples.

6. Small farmers are in debt because of the

inflation in their region so that they are forced
to sell their crops even before they are
harvested.

7. Due to the selling of more nutritious crops,

many farmers in the poorer, uplands of the
country are suffered from malnutrition.

8. Tourism is considered as tied aid of a most

oppressive variety (dictator) since it tends to
be switched on/off based on the needs of
directors and shareholders.