Organized tour to remote places and communities is becoming more and more popular. Is it a positive or negative development for the local people and environment?

How to develop tourism industry is one of the problem that governments are facing to. The soaring tours to remote places and communities gives the answer. In my opinion, it is not a good tendency for local environment, but a good one for local people.

Firstly, the exploration of wild tourism plays a vital role for giving rise to local work opportunities. As we all know, the development of tourism needs human resources to plan, to implement and to operate. Each of these stages require workers to involve in and to take the position. This provides a large number of work opportunities for local people to take.

Further more, the popularity of wild tourism also provides local residents a chance to show their great culture to others. To most of us, the local artworks and lifestyles of remote communities tend to be mysterious and attractive, but it is hard for us to get a good understanding of these due primarily to its far location and isolation. Therefore, once they open their communities to the world, they would like to build up a stage to show how they live, how to celebrate and what the beautiful works mean.

However, we cannot ignore the cost brought by such organized tour. Even though local governments do not need to invest a huge amount of money in wild tourism as it is the wildness that attracts tourists, the real cost is the negative impact on local environment. For one thing, inappropriate behavior, such as littering, from tourists usually results in non-degradable rubbish being left in these area forever. For another, with the development of tourism, local governments will have to build facilities to keep pace with the increasing demand from tourists, thus occupying wildlife’s habitats and damaging local ecosystem. However, these issued can be addressed within policy adopted.

In conclusion, wild tourism is beneficial to local residents regarding as job opportunities as well as culture spreading. In order to take the advantage of it, local governmental authorities should set up related policies to preserve environment effectively.