This document discusses the impacts of tourism on economies and societies. It notes that tourism brings money into countries from outside through travel and spending. This boosts wage earners and overall economies while also providing valuable foreign exchange. Tourism also generates employment opportunities and improves standards of living by increasing cash flow. However, large numbers of tourists can increase pollution and environmental damage. Cultures may also be negatively impacted through loss of identity or increased materialism from exposure to other ways of life. On balance, the document presents tourism as providing important economic benefits while also posing some social and environmental risks.

1. Impacts of Tourism

2. Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure
or business purposes. The World Tourism
Organization defines tourists as people
traveling to and staying in places outside
their usual environment for not more than
one consecutive year for leisure, business
and other purposes
Tourism has become a popular global
leisure activity.

3. Advantages of Tourism
Economy: Money from outside India
is brought into India. This is
good,in helping the Indian wage
earners and the overall economy.
This also helps to bring valuable
foreign exchange into our country.

4. Environmental: Does some
good,because increased money can
be spent on sanitation,improved
hygiene levels, newer and more
efficient homes to attract tourists .

5. Cultural: Due to increased tourism
levels and inflow of people from
various countries improves
awareness among people.It also
helps in improving the status of
women and their social condition
like in developed countries.

6. Employment:- Tourism helps to create
various employment oppurtunities and
improve economic condition of
people.This helps the socio-economic
condition of the people and mitigate
poverty in rural and urban India.Reduces
the responsibility on the government to
create job oppurtunities.

7. Standard of Living:- Tourism
improves the Standard of living of
people by increasing cash flow to
people. Small scale industries
flourish due to improved tourism in
the country.

8. Dis-advantages of Tourism
Due to increased number of people
coming into country, creates
negative effects like increased Land
and water pollution detrimental to
mankind.

9. As Indians are exposed to
other cultures, their own
identifiable culture will be
lost, lose of Identity.

10. Due to improved economic
condition of people coming as
tourists, our citizens become
materialistic by trying to copy
other cultures.
DONE BY-
THE NERD UNICORN