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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Governments have seized on tourism as a way of creating employment and bringing income preferable foreign exchange into troubled economies. For years, tourism's capacity to filter wealth through communities has been a major argument in its favor. The tourists spend money on accommodation, food, and souvenirs, bringing income to the suppliers of these goods and services whose money in turn circulate through the economy. But if the hotels are foreign-owned, local people have little to gain. Nor are they better off if tourists stay among them but come prepared to be self-sufficient. In both cases, tourists are often strongly resented by locals, who see huge increases in prices as the only tangible result of tourism's economic effects.
Job creation is another spin-off from tourism. Government subsidy tourism projects in the expectation of increasing employment opportunities in the new hotels and restaurants. But such work is frequently poorly paid. Local people may be neither willing to do demeaning unskilled jobs nor highly trained enough to be managers and entrepreneurs, they stand only on the sidelines while expatriate staff and migrants fill the vacancies. Social tensions, surface all too easily in such situations. Any kind of change brings tension and economic development tends to exaggerate the generation gap as the young master new skills and the older generation finds its traditions devalued or rejected. Tourists bring with them very different cultures and ideas demonstrated by the way they dress and behave, and these may be very attractive to the younger generation.
A country's culture is often a major attraction, particularly when it is combined with sun, sea, and sand. In Thailand, as in many countries with a rich heritage, tourist demands have given a much-needed boost to local arts and crafts. The phenomenal growth in Arts festivals from Edinburgh to Hongkong has brought tourists to festival towns and given some of their inhabitants access to global culture. But, tourists are seen polluting and spoiling the environment, which is a huge demerit of tourism.
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Governments have seized on tourism as a way of creating employment and bringing income preferable foreign exchange into troubled economies. For years, tourism's capacity to filter wealth through communities has been a major argument in its favor. The tourists spend money on accommodation, food, and souvenirs, bringing income to the suppliers of these goods and services whose money in turn circulate through the economy. But if the hotels are foreign-owned, local people have little to gain. Nor are they better off if tourists stay among them but come prepared to be self-sufficient. In both cases, tourists are often strongly resented by locals, who see huge increases in prices as the only tangible result of tourism's economic effects.
Job creation is another spin-off from tourism. Government subsidy tourism projects in the expectation of increasing employment opportunities in the new hotels and restaurants. But such work is frequently poorly paid. Local people may be neither willing to do demeaning unskilled jobs nor highly trained enough to be managers and entrepreneurs, they stand only on the sidelines while expatriate staff and migrants fill the vacancies. Social tensions, surface all too easily in such situations. Any kind of change brings tension and economic development tends to exaggerate the generation gap as the young master new skills and the older generation finds its traditions devalued or rejected. Tourists bring with them very different cultures and ideas demonstrated by the way they dress and behave, and these may be very attractive to the younger generation.
A country's culture is often a major attraction, particularly when it is combined with sun, sea, and sand. In Thailand, as in many countries with a rich heritage, tourist demands have given a much-needed boost to local arts and crafts. The phenomenal growth in Arts festivals from Edinburgh to Hongkong has brought tourists to festival towns and given some of their inhabitants access to global culture. But, tourists are seen polluting and spoiling the environment, which is a huge demerit of tourism.
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