What are the challenges faced by Tourist Destinations?

The naturally beautiful tourist places should feel lucky and blessed because scores of people visit them regularly every year as compared to other usual tourist places like cities, etc. Where else will people get to see such exotic views of the world? But everything is not hunky-dory at these places.

Why life is not smooth for tourist destinations?

It’s simple, Humans don’t care about our mother Earth. All they want is to experience the beauty and uniqueness of the tourist places, enjoy there and then go home with fond memories. In the process, people leave behind their trash, leftover food and other waste around the site.

Over time it builds up and starts affecting the beauty of the place. So much, so that even the usual cleaning efforts, and sometimes special cleaning efforts are not enough.

Sometimes people also do drugs and alcohol, party and revel at the tourist sites. They stay overnight or camp for more than one day and spoil the place. In the high of their enjoyment or even because of pure apathy, people don’t clean the place, people leave back all the waste they created because of their partying. Occasionally, even some of the locals are responsible for making the tourist place dirty but for most of the part, they are considerate and caring for the place.

The Financial and Cultural issues

• Commercialization of some things should be completely avoided. For e.g. every tourist place has some rich cultural heritage. But, just for the entertainment of the tourists, they are made to wear costumes and put up on acts in return for money.

• Most of the tourists don’t have any respect for the local cultures and traditions. They behave the way they want and be rude towards the locals.

• Don’t you think ideally people should not just see the tourist place, but also fully observe it, experience it? That includes learning all about the rich cultural heritage of the place and respecting it too.

• Tourism creates jobs, it helps some people earn bread and butter for their families. But the income fluctuates throughout the year as almost every tourist place has a high and low season, plus the jobs are also of low-level from where there is hardly any promotion or increment. Tourism jobs are insecure with no benefits like that of insurance, pensions, healthcare, etc.

• When a big event is held at the tourist place after it gets over, do people realize what a disaster it turned out to be in terms of cleanliness, man-management? It impacts the environment in a really bad way.

Tourist destinations can be called as the precious places on our planet where we feel serenity & peace, make amazing memories, get breathtaking views and realize how beautiful our Earth is. Agreed that, every coin has two sides, but lesser the impact of anything negative on the tourist places more will be the life of them, more chances of our future generations of visiting them.

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