Many ASEAN governments see ‘tourism’ as a key source of foreign
exchanges and a solution to relieve economic crises with injections
of foreign capital. However, tourism does not always lead to
positive results. Several studies have revealed a diversity of
negative impacts caused by tourism ranging from most obvious
physical impacts such as environmental degradation, resource
depletion, and pollution, to more subtle and complicated ones
such as socio-cultural impacts, unfair income distribution, and
increases in drug use, crime, etc. Numerous articles show
tourism’s potential destructive impact on societies, culture and
environment