please help with economic question!?
Say you are watching your favorite television program, and a commercial comes on. A soothing voice begins to describe your imaginary vacation in the lush, tropical paradise of Timbucktoo (a remote island in the South Pacific-fictitious of course), while pictures of rain forests and secluded beaches flash across your T.V. screen.
The commercial begins to describe your daily itinerary while showing you the “gentle and friendly” native peoples of Timbucktoo, performing native dances and other activities to the delight of the tourists.
You begin to think (sadly enough!) about macroeconomics. You wonder about these “gentle and friendly” people of Timbucktoo living on an island thousands of miles away from anything out in the middle of the South Pacific, and you ask yourself why the people of Timbucktoo would desire tourism to come to their peaceful and secluded island? What could they possibly do with that added aggregate income (generated by tourism) when they are out in the middle of nowhere. What could they possibly spend their money on? What about the pollution and the noise? The hustle and bustle, the crime! And what about their peaceful and gentle way of life? Is it worth sacrificing for more income?
economics is feel good name for how to enable people to pay more taxes….
With a burgeoning tourism industry, the govt will get more taxes all round… QED
They do the same thing that every other nation would do with income: Import stuff. With the US to their east and China/Japan to their West, they could get pretty much anything they wanted.
What pollution? Tourism doesn’t generate pollution. Industry generates pollution (Unless you mean littering, but that happens whenever there’s a lot of people in oine area).
Crime isn’t caused by tourism. Crime rates are easily the highest in poor areas, and poor people generally don’t take vacations to islands in the South Pacific.
I don’t get how their way of life is threatened by tourism…
it is very possible in this idyllic setting they have very special needs that the income of tourism can bring to them, ie. medical help, education, etc. living in idyllic settings like that are not necessarily good for human beings