Changes brought by Tourism

With Tourism, there would be multiple positive and negative changes that will be brought to the country.

Positive
The main positive changes or impact brought by Tourism to Korea would be the economic benefits. With more and more people visiting the country, it is undoubted that more tourism receipts will be generated. It will be sure that the standard of living of the people at Korea would rise.

With tourism, it brings people all around the world together. When they get together, there will be a chance for people from different culture background to communicate and understand each other’s culture better. As such, it creates mutual understanding between each other through the cultural exchange. Therefore it will reduce prejudice and racism towards Korea. With tourism, foreigners will be able to learn more about Korean Buddhism and appreciate it.

With tourism, job opportunities are created all over Korea be it working for a hotel, a guide, or a housewife that teaches visitor how to make Kimchi. All sorts of jobs are created and as such, problem of unemployment is reduced. With the various events and festivals, the community would be strengthened as the local community feel proud of their culture and thus creating a special bond within themselves.

Because of the sales revenue that the traditional culture would bring to Korea, it will result in more effort used on preservation of their traditional culture. As such, interest in conserving and sustaining the culture and heritage product of Korea would increase. Thus, it will prevent the loss of their traditional culture and their way of life back in the past.

Will all the theme park, Water Park, golf courses and other tourism developed facilities; it will benefit the locals and host community as well. This is because the facilities are opened to everyone as long as they have the ability to pay. As such, locals could enjoy whatever world class resort or theme park that the country has in place for tourism.

Negative
With tourists arriving to learn more about the Korean culture, it is definite that dilution of culture will appear as the tourist bring along their values and beliefs of the own cultural background to Korea to share with the locals. For example, the temple stay programme that was offered to visitors to understand more about Korean Buddhism may cause the dilution of the authenticity of Korean Buddhism. Temples were located at secluded places because it is away from civilisation and hence it would be less crowded. This is such that a more conducive environment will be available to the followers of Korean Buddhism to be able to learn the teachings of Buddhism in a peaceful surrounding away from civilisation and technology which are deemed to be distractions. If many tourists were to be visiting the temples, the tranquillity would be disturbed and it would not be as peaceful as before. To meet the demands of tourist, comfortable accommodation might even be developed and who knows what will happen next.

Natural landscape and destination are being transformed into tourist destination like what happened to Namiseom Island where Winter Sonata is being filmed at are being used for themed travelling but do travellers know what and why the Island is called the Namiseom Island and will the locals forget about it because of the over focusing on the much more profitable themed travel on the island?