How does sustainable tourism benefit the local people?
How does sustainable tourism benefit the local people? By supporting local communities, you get a unique chance to immerse yourself in local culture. Staying in locally owned hotels, guesthouses, and homestays give you the opportunity to directly stimulate the local economy and connect with locals on a personal level.
What are the benefits of tourism?
Tourism offers great opportunities for emerging economies and developing countries. It creates jobs, strengthens the local economy, contributes to local infrastructure development and can help to conserve the natural environment and cultural assets and traditions, and to reduce poverty and inequality.
How does tourism reduce poverty?
Jobs within the tourism industry, such as food, conservation and hospitality require lower skill levels. Therefore, allowing for expanded employment opportunities. In these ways, tourism's impact on reducing poverty is both positive and significant.