Advantages and Disadvantages of Tourism in the Bahamas

Advantages and Disadvantages of Tourism in the Bahamas

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  • Date Submitted: 03/22/2009 3:06 PM
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list and explain three advantages and disadvantages of tourism in the bahamas. Choose two disadvantages and explain how they may become advantages.

There are many advantages and disadvantages of tourism.1 advantage is that
The tourism industry can create many different jobs. And that can be vary useful
The job can be directly and indirectly related for most Bahamians and it bring’s most of the money. The economy continues to grow and the people have a better life.
The potential for scholastic growth, as more tourists come to the islands the more money is tipped, giving families more money to invest in education. Another advantage is that,
Tourism provides foreign exchange which allows: the government too pay bills such as
foreign debt. Also it allows the Bahamian dollar to stay on par with the U.S dollar. And also allows government to have money to do things such as: road works, school construction and all other governmental works. Tourism also helps Bahamian to go shopping abroad to buy goods and send there children to school as long as the U.S
dollar is floating in our Bahamian economy very easily. And also foreign exchange allows for the importation of goods and foods.And Approximately 30% of all persons in The Bahamas are directly employed in tourism. If you add the persons who are indirectly employed in tourism the percentage of persons employed by the tourism sector increases to about 64%. Those were some of the advantages of tourism and with advantages there can also disadvantages. These are some of the disadvantages of tourism. 1 Disadvantage is: It is said that tourism has cost a large shift
in the population of the Bahamas and that is because many persons on the out islands
have been forced to leave their islands to work in Nassau/Paradise island or grand bahama because these were the islands in which they could find jobs. Another disadvantage is that, Many people in the tourism industry are working long hours and many days, families are...

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