Biodiversity and scenery can attract long-haul tourism from developed countries.
Tourism generates a multiplier effect. Profits increase and they go into the local economy and leads to emergence of local suppliers of food, clothes, souvenirs and tourist services and a decrease in reliance on foreign imports.
However, vulnerable to downturns in world economy, changing fashions in destinations, terrorist incidents (Tunisia 2015 - tourists fell from 5 million to 4 million in 2016) and disasters (2004 Asian Tsunami)
Egypt, which has experienced several years of political unrest, saw an average annual decline in UK visitor numbers of 18.5% from 2010 to 2014.
If developed by foreign investors, profits will go to developed countries.
Can lead to localised inflation, making basic foods and services too expensive for local people (Costa del sol)
Other sectors of the economy may be affected (young migrants moving to work in tourism may lead to labour shortages in farming)
Tourism can overload the physical infrastructure of water, sewerage and road systems
Tourism can degrade the environment (litter, traffic)
Ecotourism: involves small-scale ventures based in local communities and with minimal environmental impact.
At present, ecotourism only meet a small part of the mass tourism market and it's not what every tourist wants.

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A level Geography (5 Bridging the Development Gap) Slides sobre Bridging the Development Gap, criado por Ella Middlemiss em 30-11-2016.