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    Living With Tourism: Five People Describe How Tourism Has Affected Their Home Town

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    Five people from a town describe how tourism has affected their home. While tourism has brought economic benefits like investment and jobs, it has also negatively impacted the environment and local culture. Construction for tourists has replaced forests and fields with concrete and changed the landscape. Tourism businesses have also displaced local industries and don't provide many local jobs. The large number of tourists has made the town busier but also increased crime and disruptive behavior. Poor planning and short-term thinking has allowed ugly overdevelopment without considering long term impacts.

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    LIVING WITH TOURISM

    Five people describe how tourism has affected their home town.

    A.Leonor Sousa

    It can’t be denied that tourism has attracted investment, which has certainly raised living standards
    here, but the cost in other respects has been extremely high. Take the effect on the environment,
    for instance. When my parents were young this used to be an area of fields and woods, but now
    everything is covered in concrete. The tourists themselves aren’t responsible for this; it’s the
    construction companies, property developers and estate agents who are to blame because they’re
    the ones making all the money. They’re all based in the big cities and bring in their own people, so
    they hardly create any employment at all for local residents.

    B.Yusuf Demir

    When I was growing up in my home town there was a path I used to walk along to go to school, and
    last summer I went to see if it was still there. It was, but the view from it had changed completely.
    Now there is a vast shopping mall, with a cinema and cafés alongside. I don’t actually mind that,
    because it means there are lots more things to do, and I also like the fact that it has a really
    international atmosphere. It’s good for local people to meet visitors from other parts of the world,
    try new kinds of food and hear about different ways of living.

    C. Matt Walker

    Tourism has changed this town so much, even in the years since I was at junior school. In those days,
    there was a football pitch near the harbour where we would kick a ball around, but it’s gone now,
    which is a pity. In the harbour itself luxury yachts owned by people from richer parts of the country
    have replaced the fishing boats, to the extent that there is now no sign of what used to be the main
    source of income and employment locally. In the evenings, the town is certainly a lot livelier, but
    sometimes people start doing things they would never think of doing back in their own home towns,
    and then the police have to be called.

    D. Trisha Chandra

    I was just a child when tourism first took off here, and those incredibly ugly houses were built for
    summer visitors. The residents really should have protested about that. It was all the fault of the
    town council, who only ever thought in the short term and seemed to give planning permission to
    anyone who applied to build anything. Nowadays, there’s talk of ecological tourism, but that’s just a
    way of making people feel less guilty about the harm they are doing by making a few insignificant
    changes, such as re-using towels in their hotel rooms.

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