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Tourism has become a commercial business, which has obvious benefits to the said economy, the environment and society. Often, the positive economic impacts persuade governments, companies and individuals to get involved with the development of tourism. Tourism creates jobs, both

The tourism industry today is a big business for a country, it is the number one industry of The Bahamas. It is the migration of individuals from one place to another for a short period of time. Tourism in The Bahamas accounts for seventy percent of the country’s national income and employs fifty percent of the population. Tourism is further considered the main source of The Bahamas income. Tourism in The Bahamas may have several impact on the country both good and bad.

There are large economic consequences on the economy of Bali. One significant impact on Bali is the foreign exchange earnings. Tourism is the fourth-largest income earner for Indonesia at around US 5.5 billion (2003). Tourism is very labour intensive, with the influx of tourists more services are required thus leading to more creation of jobs, even though it increases job opportunities and higher paying jobs,

8. Trade in tourism boosts Australia’s economy and builds people-topeople links › Around one in every four dollars spent on tourism in Australia is by international visitors. › Tourism is one of Australia’s key industries, making up 3.2 per cent of Australia’s GDP: › International visitors contribute 0.9 per cent of Australia’s GDP. › The tourism industry as a whole directly employs 580,300 Australians, accounting for five per cent of Australia’s total employment. › A record high of 8.5 million visitors came to Australia in 2016-17.

Tourism creates jobs directly through the tourism industry and indirectly in sectors such as retail and transportation. When tourist spend their money on goods and services,

For example, the flight that Virgin Atlantic provides to Asian countries will contribute to the nation tourism aspects. Foreign tourist from the Europe and all perhaps from all over the world will come to Asian countries. This will boom the tourism industry in the particular country. This will develop the infrastructure of the country itself (Tucker, 2010). In terms of employment, especially that rely on tourism industry, more and more labour will be needed. Hence, the requirement for workers will increase. Job seekers around the world will come to that country to seek for job. In fact, the local people themselves will need to compete with foreign workers to get the job. Hotels for example, will be built and increased from time to time.

Over the last 60 years, tourism has benefited from continuous growth and diversification, becoming one of the largest as well as the fastest growing world’s economic sectors. Tourism becomes one of the major categories of global trade in services. Nowadays, 7% of global goods and services exports are contributed by international tourism, and for the last four years, it has grown faster than the general global trade.[ Exports from international tourism rise 4% in 2015, (2016, May 6). Retrieved from http://media.unwto.org/press-release/2016-05-03/exports-international-tourism-rise-4-2015]

Tourism plays a vital role in economic development in most countries around the world. The industry has not only direct economic impact, but also significant indirect and influential impacts. There is agreement among experts that the travel and tourism sector is the fastest growing of global economy. According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, international tourism receipts surpass US$ 1 trillion in 2011, growing about 3.8%up from 2010 (WTO, 2012).

Britain has been over the news due to the British exit the European Union, which this event is known as Brexit (Hunt, 2016). This decision brought a large impact on every country in Britain, but the Britain has not started negotiate with European Union about adapting regulations to minimize their negative consequences. Before people can list potential impacts of Brexit on Britain’s tourism, it is important for people to understand how well the Britain was doing in the tourism industry. In addition, it is important to analyze and understand what type of tourism impacts on Britain. So, people would know how Brexit will change its policy and what impacts will bring to their current life. It will provide an idea of how the changes of regulations will impact different countries and the region. Thus, it provides an understanding of how tourism helps to develop the Britain in terms of environmental impacts, socio-cultural impacts, and economic impacts.

The tourism industry is very important to the UK economy as it financially represents the investment. The royal wedding had an increase of visitors to the UK and only 30% visiting the individual tourist attractions. However some venues were trying to

The current research paper covers the main effects of global tourism, both positive and negative. International tourism is a significant sector of business. For some countries it is one of the main sources of national income. The most important positive economic effects of tourism are as follows: increase in budget revenues, production expansion, stimulation of investments, and improvement in the population’s welfare. Tourism influences social and cultural lives of people in a positive way by stimulating the development and revival of local cultures and encouraging intercultural exchange.

Tourism has its sociological impacts, environmental impacts, and economic impacts. When visitors come spend money in any place they travel to it creates jobs for locals and often times reduce the poverty rate. Tourism can help a community identify just who they are and why tourist like to travel to this area. They do this by showing distinct rare cultures that you can’t find anywhere else in the world. This is what draws tourist into and area. Tourism across the world is a rapidly growing and really can help the economy with a tourist attraction area. These impacts can be both positive and negative for tourist attraction areas. As tourism develops in a certain area it will either hurt the environment or help the environment in that tourist area. Tourist areas draw the construction of roads, airports, hotels, restaurants, shops, etc. These things will reduce the natural element of a tourist attraction area. Tourist attraction areas can help an area because some of the land is protected and conserved to keep the natural element of that area. Tourism has the ability to raise awareness to tourists of the important of the environment.

The tourism has grown with significant rates in the last ten years and it has become the greater source of currency

International tourism formed a vital industry globally and tourism activities generated approximately US $ 3.6 trillion in 2000 (Sadi & Henderson, 2015). Increase in expansion rates heightened the international arrival rates by a mean of 4.3% between 1996 and 2006 (Burns, 2016). Mainly, developing nations form the forefront contributors of such upward trend. That was prompted by positive economic impacts, which included income, foreign exchange, and internal investments. Tourism was also a catalyst for the national growth and diversification means because of some of its disadvantages as a driver for economic development. According to Henderson (2013), it was responsible for 19% of exports in the developing world and at least 40% of the gross domestic product. Besides, Rimmawi and Ibrahim (2015) stated that more than 65% of jobs in developing nations were associated with tourism.

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry