Over the last few decades, more countries are becoming financially reliant on tourism. While foreign visitors, bring significant economic value and create employment opportunities for locals, the countries’ security with deteriorate, ultimately leading to discrimination against foreigners.
The benefits of tourism is that it boosts the national GDP while creating employment opportunities at the same time. The arrival of tourists bring a huge cash flow from shopping, leisure activities and transportation. this leads to extra income for millions, contributing notably to the GDP of the country. As a result, companies would need to hire more tour guides, hotel, staff and airplane assistance. This increasing vacancy satisfies the employment needs of the country’s people.
Although relying mostly on tourism can boost the countries economic strength, the presence of foreign travelers is a huge liability to the national security. Huge number of tourist flag to cultural landscape, destinations, bringing along their valuable belongings and attract the attention of thieves. Example, Travelers in Spain are easily targeted by thieves, with the crime rates at double to triple in landmarks area compared to the other parts of Spain. Consequently, citizens would believe that foreign visitors are their countries security hole, further harming their international relations.
To conclude, countries that have a successful system built around tourism gains huge benefits financially while creating job opportunities for their residents. On the other hand, the large amounts of tourist induces security threats to the country, which affects the international relationships ultimately.