Disadvantages of Tourism
Tourism may cause disruption in socio-economic, cultural setup of a country.
It may also lead to environmental hazards such as environmental pollution due to use of cigars, plastic bags.
In order to attract more tourists and earn more profits sprawling resorts are built cutting down thousands of casuarinas trees beside sea beaches. These resorts destroy both scenic beauty of the place by paying no attention to local architecture and ecology.
As a result of indiscriminate construction of high rises provision of water supply and waste disposal facilitate many fatal ends.
Overuse of natural wealth is a serious problem, tourist overuse of mountain trails resulting in abundance in dumping of waste products, food tins etc.
Damage to wildlife parks is a visible phenomenon, ground vegetation remain devastated under tourists’ shoes, food habits of animal impaired ultimately landscape loses scenic beauty.
Tourism may have damaging socio-cultural effects. Local people demean themselves to earn more or imitate alien culture, new life styles, foreign culture.
Once the natural beauty and manmade beauties are lost tourism loses its charm and attraction and will collapse. So today environment friendly or green tourism are being introduced by tourism industries.
So we should keep tourism within planned limits and try to avoid ecological imbalance and health hazards. Tourism must not play havoc with traditions and protected societies. New technique, high-teach communication may bring cultural setbacks, degradation to preserved communities.