How much is Tourism a Good or Bad thing for Thailand?

As tourism is one of the world’s largest lines of businesses, it seems immensely reasonable that it could have a huge impact on people and various places. This is certainly true for Thailand, and it can be viewed in both positive and negative ways. We might be able to divide the way we look at the benefits and problems of tourism into economic, social and environmental impacts.

Some of the positive economic impacts include, more jobs for Thai people, and more money for infrastructure, etc. I think the most important is, that the government is using the money that comes from tourism to improve Thailand’s infrastructure, because it is actually useful, and helps the civilians in different ways, such as cleaner water, less sewage problems, better roads, and many more. For example, the clean water can reduce the possibility of getting a disease from the viruses and dirt in the water, and therefore, reduce the amount of money spent in medication for citizens, and more money to build better buildings, or schools and hospitals. Also, by having fewer patients, it can create a new image of Thailand being a safe country to visit, and more and more tourists would be motivated to go to Thailand. Further more, if there is an increase in the number of airports, and a better, smoother roads, then this will help Thailand in having more tourists, and receive a higher amount of money.

However, if there are positive economic impacts, there must be some negative economic impacts, such as the workers receiving low wages, that they are fully dependant on the amount of tourists, and tourism ‘leakage’ in Thailand is happening, where about 70% of the overall money spent by the tourists are gone, to import food, drinks, and foreign hotels, airlines, et...

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...clude, I think tourism is a good thing for Thailand. This is basically because it brings in the money, to improve the overall infrastructure, and the help the lives of many Thai people, through the tourist industry. If Thailand did not have tourism, it might have been a poorer country, without enough food, or any other necessities. Although tourism brings Thailand negative problems, such as the environmental, social and economic effects, but then, thousands of homeless people would gather, and create a strike. In addition, it would eventually effect the wildlife, and the water too, by Thai people cutting down the trees (deforestation) to create wooden furniture’s as their jobs, or no money to filter and clean the water, and there would be no one encouraged to voluntary clean the tourist attractions, and stop the US culture taking over Thailand culture.