Travel Helps Promote Communication betweenCountries
With the steady growth in the world's economy as well as thepeople's living standard, nowadays more and more people areable to afford to go to travel abroad. Thus people of differentraces and colors have more chances to meet each other andunderstand each other. Such activities among people help promote the understanding andcommunication between countries, which helps to make this world a better and more harmoniousplace.
Different countries are striving to develop their national tourism because tourism really has a lot ofadvantages. Firstly, beautiful scenery, attractive tourist spots and splendid culture allure touristswith different parts of the world, which provides many opportunities to promote exchangesamong people from different backgrounds. For example, since the reform and opening-up, China,a country which has rich tourist resources, receives millions of foreign tourists every year. Thefrequent contacts between foreign tourists and Chinese people promote the exchanges of cultureand science, creating international friendship and promoting deeper understanding andstrengthening ties. Meanwhile this has accelerated the development of these countries. Secondly,travel enriches one's knowledge, widens one's vision and enhances mutual understanding. In thepast, Chinese people knew little of the outside world. Since the reform and opening-up, withpeople's living standard greatly improved, more and more people have the chances to go abroadfor sightseeing. Through traveling, we Chinese have expanded our scope of knowledge, and wehave come to know the world better and have been learning how to develop our own countrybetter. Thirdly, tourism boosts local economy and promotes commercial exchanges. Singapore issuch a good example. It is a small country with scarce natural resources. But owing to theprosperous tourism, the country's economy develops very well and it is named one of the foureconomic "tigers" in northeastern Asia.
But some people say that tourism cannot work so well as people expect. They argue that thepurpose of the tourists is just to enjoy sightseeing and in fact tourism has its disadvantages. Firstly,tourism does great harm to the tranquility and sanitation of the local place, and sometimes it evencauses pollution to the natural environment. Secondly, many tourists cannot even speak a word ofthe language of the country they are visiting. There is little possibility that they will have a deepunderstanding of the country in such a short period of time. Thirdly, during the trip, poor serviceand language barrier may even give rise to unwanted misunderstanding. Also the tourists' wealthmay make the local people more aware of their own poverty and lead to jealousy andpsychological imbalance.
As the proverb goes, “No garden is without weeds." In my opinion, compared with theadvantages, disadvantages of tourism have become trivial things. It is important for a country todevelop its tourism to upgrade its international position and at the same time promote globalunderstanding to remove prejudice and bias. We should make good use of our rich touristresources to make our motherland more beautiful and attract more foreign friends.