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Does responsible tourism help local people?

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Does responsible tourism help local people?

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More and more countries are turning to tourism for economic growth, and traveling became accessible to many people.
Travelling responsibly doesn’t only have a positive impact in the destinations and communities we visit, but it provides us with positive experiences that often stay in our memory.
We get a lot of tourism,  but what do local communities get out of it?

Responsible tourism gives great economic benefits for local people and because of that, working conditions get improved and people can live happier, more fullfiling lives.

Also, with responsible tourism we set the path for better understanding one another.
It’s all for a deeper connection to others. Because those connections are where we find the best of humanity.

Lukas, Kipras, Edvinas

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Responsible tourism, in turn, refers to the responsibility that both visitors and hosts take to ensure this sustainability is addressed and maintained. A responsible tourist will make decisions based on what is best for the local communities in the long term, making sure that the actions based on those decisions have a positive impact on those communities.Responsible tourism makes travellers a (temporary) active part of that community, as opposed to them just being a spectator. Making meaningful connections with the visited communities is just as important as being respectful of the environment and the local customs. In practical terms, however, sustainable tourism, responsible tourism, ecotourism, green tourism and similar designations, are more often than not used equally in the same context.
Paulina

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Minimises negative environmental, social and economic impacts. Generates greater economic benefits for local people and enhances the well-being of host communities, improves working conditions and access to the industry. In my opinion it helps economics. The money earned from tourism is really big, it helps the country. It helps with the employment. Somewhere tourists needs to stay at the hotel. There is hotel staff. And that helps the country and local people.

ADOMAS

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Opinion essay
Topic: To what extent do you agree/disagree that responsible tourism helps local people.

I believe that responsible tourism is useful for the local people, because tourists bring money to the country itself and new job opportunities for people living there. That money earned from tourism is being used for greater things like creating a better, newer, cleaner environment.

One of the aspects of why responsible tourism has positive benefits for the people living there is that pursuing responsible tourism helps provide employment opportunities for the population. It makes life easier for unemployed people.

Responsible tourism minimizes negative environmental, social and economic impacts. Generates greater economic benefits for local people and enhances the well-being of host communities, improves working conditions and access to the industry.

Livija, Ieva, Karolina

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Thermally socially responsible tourism reduces the negative social, economic and environmental impacts and creates economic benefits for the local population. However, there are several basic socio-cultural and economic principles of responsible travel. Firs of all - respect the country you are visiting, its culture and its people. Taking an interest in the specifics of the country you are visiting in advance will not get you into unpleasant situation, but it will not ruin the trip for us or the people who host us.
Also travel by local transport as much as possible. When travelling by local trains or buses, you will see people in everyday environments, get to know their customs.
Another piece of advince - buy concrete, food and souvenirs directly from local people. This will support the locals and help preserve the local crafts.
In summary, I can say, that responsible tourism creates economic benefits for locals.

Ineta

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Does responsible tourism help local people? First of all, tourists make us very happy to come to the city to see different traditions, food, environment, people, our entertainment,heritage. They strengthen our

local community and reduce poverty. Every agency strives to make tourists happy so that they do not  have bad reviews about the city that would hurt?? their income, but tourists also help us preserve cultural heritage and traditional values by creating a meaningful relationship between tourists and locals. They support social and cultural diversity. So I could say that the purpose of a tourist trip is to lift people out from poverty  and uphold those traditions and in this way to aid local people.

Marija

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Responsible travel does a huge impact to the local communities. Nowadays tourism Is one of the larges and for many countries the biggest impact ding industries in the world. Because of that, companies are taking over the tourism countries local businesses. By doing so, huge amount of countries money are leading out, in doing so the countries become more and more pour. But if tourists use responsible tourism and support local people given services. Tourists will maximize the countries income and minimalize the huge businesses. By doing so, it could lead to better countries economic, and even better education.
Lukas Brazauskas

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Does responsible tourism help local people? (First viewpoint supporting)

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Responsible travel is very beneficial because of many aspects. One of them is supporting local communities and businesses, especially in developing countries or those whose main industry is tourism. Visiting local heritage, living in small city hotels, hostels or B&B, trying local people traditional food, using traditional transportation services such as boats, bikes, horses, camels and others, help money not to leak out of the country and stay in the destination of traveling. As a result the whole country, it's economics and financial status can increase and develop.
Patricija and Rugilė

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Also responsible travel helps local people to conserve national heritage. Every country has something traditional and unique: it could be from nature to architectural monument. Unfortunately, improper and mass travelling maximise chances to destroy heritage, but responsible tourism can help to save it. For example, people drinking from reusable water bottle and not from plastic one while they are travelling in different destinations could help reduce increase of environmental pollution, because they don't litter. Consequently, this little step could help preserve local communities heritage.
Rugilė and Patricija

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These days, developing countries are using responsible tourism. Firstly, It helps those countries economy and increases their wealth greatly, it's popular in places like Africa and other types of old and dusty cultural places all around the world. Also, this type of tourism greatly impacts local communities and helps them maximize their profits and inflates their spread of benefits from this kind of tourism. Responsible tourism also helps out by not leaking any money to travel agencies and focuses in giving local communities and industries the money, that they need, in order to concerve their places for future tourism.
Nojus, Pijus, Svajūnas.

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Responsible travel helps local people. Firstly, because people, who buy stuff from local people, rather than shops help to increase the wealth of that country. This way local communities have a better future not only to them, but to their children too. To maximise the help for developing countries we need to spread this message all around the world and hope, that we will approach the destination of making the world a better place. So to everyone who is reading this message, do your part on reducing this tourism issue.
Edvardas Sadauskas