MANY developing countries look to attract mass tourism to enhance their economy. For that matter they also note how developed countries encourage tourism as an economic must-have. In fact, some of them like Spain in the 1950’s and Thailand, decades after, have economically benefited in a big way by opening their doors to massive tourism.

Because modern tourism is now a case of hordes of tourists descending on countries of their destination, they are more likely than not to disrupt the social fabric if they impose themselves in their chosen way on their host countries. Think of foreigners going nude at our beaches because they can do so on theirs. Or, looking for a drug supply as they travel. Think of sex tourism, rowdy behavior of young tourists looking to be risky and risqué. Meanwhile, note how host countries and their locals begin to cater and join in behavior alien and unacceptable to their own culture. True, this is looking at the negative dimension of tourism.

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