Vitamin Sea

By Izi Griffin

Tourism has become a huge part of today’s society throughout the world for many reasons both beneficiary reasons and beneficiary reasons. The big impacts of tourism include the construction of hotels, amusements, uber, and many more businesses, destroying trees and making greenhouse emissions go up, which can cause climate change. According “Climate change has affected me in many ways for many reasons,” Eva York said. “Including making it harder to breathe and causing more and more asthma attacks day by day.’’

So to put everything into perspective there are a lot of good outcomes with tourism but with every good outcome there’s always a negative outcome causing a lot of people to look down on tourism.

With this being said, in the first section I will talk about the positive effects of tourism and in the second part I will talk about the negative effects of tourism and in the third part I will conclude and sum everything up. According to the World Travel & Tourism Council, the tourism industry accounts for 10.3% of the global GDP and supports over 300 million jobs worldwide some of these jobs consist of Gowestern, a motorcoach company, hotels, transportation companies such as, southwest airlines, delta and many more companies in which either use fuel or cutdown trees to be made which release greenhouse

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Metairie and Gentilly, suburbs of New Orleans, get far less tourists than the French Quarter. Photo by Mars Leslie gasses in which cause global warming making all sorts of problems. Macha Lei, a Hawaii resident said

“Hawaii has gotten so much hotter in recent years due to global warming,” Lei said. “I love the effort of tourists who visit here, but a lot of tourists trash this beautiful state. It’s really turning our home into a landfill and making us lose the culture our ancestors had, causing Hawaii to not be as authentic as it was 15 years ago. I’m not saying I hate the tourist culture, I’m just saying I wish certain aspects of it would change.”

With this being said, when tourists don’t do research beforehand it can really hurt a place’s authenticity making the place lose some of its original culture. Making it harder for locals who live there to not love their home any more.

With all of this being said Tourism can hurt a place’s natural beauty, but on the other hand it can also add to the beauty of the place. How would you feel if one were to come to your home and take over most of what you had before changing the whole vibe and flow of things? It’s a part of our culture as humans but it causes so many more negative effects than positive effects.

“If we were to put a limit on how much we travel just for fun it would help everyone out so much.” Trillouria, a Hawaii resident, said.

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