The advantages are: obviously in raising money to pay debts, provide employment so people can escape the poverty cycle, provide more facilities and infrastructure such as roads, airport and sanitation, tourism provides a market for local produce and again helps break the poverty cycle.
The disadvantages are: loss of wildlife habitats due to developments eg coral reefs , more threatened species eg turtles, loss of culture, increase in crime such as theft, valuable resources such as water is directed to hotels, jobs are low paid and unskilled for locals, hotels owned by foreign multinational holiday firms whose base in MEDC, visual pollution by unsightly buildings.
Solutions that are sustainable-ecotourism (small numbers, educate the tourist), protecting fragile habitats by designating national parks, tourist licences eg Antarctica, hotels on single storey that blend into the environment with vegetation, encouraging local ownership.
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