Tourism is harmful to the environment

          Many people probably think that tourism is a good way to support the country's economy, but none all of us know that tourism has many environmental impacts that are harmful for our natural environment.

          Tourism can be entertaining, and you can have a nice leisure time with your family, but while we are having are having fun, nature not, due to the fact that tourism elicit depletion of natural resources. First, water is one of the most critical resources, tourism indiscriminate use this natural resources. Second, tourism incite land degradation. Consequently, the construction of builts environment causes that land resources such as minerals, fossil fuels, fertile soil, etc. disappear. This activity can be beneficial for something, but is harmful for natural environment.

          Tourism can affect in a positive and negative way local cultures. A positive way would be that many local cultures are known nowadays, and people can know and learn about those cultures, as well as tourism helps to preserve these cultures, Nonetheless, tourism also affects these cultures due to the lose of their identity, values because of several other cultures influences. This means that local cultures can lose their language or some of their activities that represents their culture. For example, some cultures lost natural techniques to cure diseases, etc.

          To conclude, tourism can be harmful to the environment in terms of the indiscriminate use of natural resources. Furthermore, tourism can affect in a positive and negative way local cultures by helping them to become well-known, or losing  their identities.